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Director of Engineering
About Us
- HealthTap helps users find reliable, relevant personalized health information from trusted medical experts and through community insights. We are the first consumer health site to actually personalize the health information users find based on who they are and what they share with us.
- The $3 Trillion health market is in drastic need of innovation and is undergoing significant disruption from consumer-facing technologies; we intend to play a significant role in this transition.
- Our team has started and built some of the most successful web and mobile health applications of all times that have served hundreds of millions of users; pre-product, we've raised significant funds from some of Silicon Valley's smartest angel investors, and we're very active in the social media. It's time to transform personal health, and we're here to make it happen.
About You
- Energized by and comfortable with a fast-paced, always-on, often ambiguous start-up environment
- A flexible, results-oriented, and experienced senior leader ready and able to drive numerous initiatives
- You've got visionary product insight, significant technical expertise, and extensive leadership and business skills.
- Able to put metrics around anything, including your own work, and have the planning and execution skills to deliver and inspire others to deliver on those metric
- You have a keen instinct for developing compelling products with a strong focus on users, the technical aptitude to bring great ideas to life, and the business sense to drive product goals and strategies.
Responsibilities
- Grow a strong technical team, picking the right technologies and platforms for product implementation, while defining critical architectures and delivering on the product.
- Work closely with the CTO and head of product management to jointly define product milestones and deliver on them
- Build a world class engineering team that will attract talent for years to come
- Write copious amount of elegant code and provide hands-on guidance to the rest of the engineering team
- Foster and support culture of innovation and excellence in the engineering organization
- Define the appropriate architecture for the product, keeping in mind the scalability and flexibility needs.
- Be fully and closely engaged with the product, marketing, and business development teams to determine the best technical implementation methods and execution schedules.
Requirements
- B.S. or higher (M.S. preferred) (computer science degree preferred)
- At least 5 years of experience in the role of a technology executive at a consumer software company
- Strong experience in Data related technologies, including: data modeling, data collection and aggregation, data mining, and analytics.
- Experience with a broad range of technologies
- Recent, hands-on experience in Java and/or ROR based web application development
- Entrepreneurial nature with an appreciation for business opportunities and a strong passion for solving difficult problems
- Passion for helping people live healthier happier lives.
- Exceptional product and project management skills
- Entrepreneurial experience and success creating great products
Perks
- We'll provide generous equity for the right candidate.
- Medical benefits.
- Our office is a 2 minute walk from the Palo Alto Caltrain / Baby Bullet / VTA stop
- We're located 1 block off of University Avenue, with many nearby coffee shops and restaurants and any other convenient thing you can imagine.
- You will be part of the coolest project in consumer health innovation ever, and have a high chance to make a meaningful impact on the health and happiness of people everywhere.
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Palo Alto, Ca
March 31, 2011
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