Head of Engineering
Hybrid (San Francisco, CA)$120k - $270kFull-timePosted 4mo ago
About the role
Head of Engineering at Lamar Health, responsible for bridging core platform with real-world healthcare workflows, leading a hands-on, player-coach engineering team to scale products for care delivery and patient outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams to develop the roadmap based on real-world customer needs.
- Help ensure reliability, scalability and extendibility of our core product offering.
- Help decide what we DO NOT do.
- Manage the engineering team and set up systems and processes for growth and development
- Be a hands on player-coach for the team, 50% of the time in the code and 50% managing
Qualifications
- 4-7 years of experience building and shipping software in production (Python, TypeScript, or similar)
- Excited about the intersection of technology, healthcare, and product thinking
- Comfortable in ambiguity — prioritizing impact over perfection
- Value outcome based engineering
- Value empathy and communication as much as technical skill
- You want to see your work directly improve healthcare delivery and patient experience
Skills
Required:Software developmentRoadmap planningLeadership and management
Nice to have:Healthcare domain understanding
Benefits
- Compensation: Competitive + mission-driven impact
Last updated Jul 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Lamar Health
Scaling Intelligence for Healthcare Automations
$1 T is spent today on back office tasks such as patient triaging, intake, eligibility checks, prior auths and claims. Specialized knowledge is required to complete these tasks making them prone to errors and bottlenecked by staffing. Lamar Health takes the burden off of providers and intelligently automates these tasks. Starting with specialty medications.
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