Head of Engineering
What we're looking for
We are hiring a Head of Engineering who is excited about building new products from scratch, working and leading internal and external engineers, designers and product operations to advance third party reproduction. As our Head of Engineering, you’ll help shape our culture, define our development process and oversee the development of the platform our members love and engage with every day. This role will report to our CEO.
You will be a key member of our team as you:
- Work closely with the founders and other teammates to turn ideas into delightful experiences for all audiences - potential members, partners and internal teammates
- Manage our internal and external teams who build, test, deploy, monitor, and iterate on Cofertility’s marketing websites, third party reproduction matching platform, and member portal
- Define and manage our Engineering culture and software development lifecycle process. Oversee a team that: gathers requirements, defines feature requests/enhancements, tests functionality, resolves bugs and incidents, and improves performance to perfect our end-user experience in an iterative process.
- Be hands-on to lead, build and learn, until our engineering team is established with defined teams and consistent processes (code reviews, deployment pipeline with test suites / harness, documentation, and onboarding scripts for new engineers)
- Help grow a world-class engineering team and shape who Cofertility is as a company. Recruit, interview, incentivize, and onboard engineers. Define mentorship and management direction for our engineering team for upward mobility and skillset growth
Who we’re looking for
As a mission-driven company, we thrive on the energy of our teammates. You should be inspired by our mission of changing the world of family planning and ready to empower women to own their fertility timeline. You’re a compassionate leader and experienced problem solver who is excited to take your industry expertise to a seed-stage company and grow our product.
You align with the following requirements:
- 6-8+ years building and leading consumer-facing web products and teams
- Resourceful and able to confidently build and lead a team while balancing the ambiguity and risk that seed-stage companies experience. You’re calm, collected, and have the ability to bring out excellence in others with your leadership and management skills.
- Finds joy in building things, turning ideas into products/experiences, always be iterating, and making a difference
- Expertise in implementing complex front-end designs utilizing 3rd party APIs
- Willing to keep fingers on the keyboard while thinking about the bigger picture until the engineering department is more mature
- Someone who has a POV on engineering/technical decisions and can advocate for their opinion. You don’t fall for ‘second system’ syndrome and understand that many types of software engineering tools and technologies can accomplish the same goals. What matters is that our end users are happy despite what technology we chose (you are a product-first engineer).
- Ready to take on challenges the moment they arise and enjoys fast paced work
- Patient, kind, and empathetic
- A collaborative team player
You should have some familiarity (or at least curiosity) with reproductive health, fertility, and/or the egg freezing process.
About Us
We are a fully remote team. Our founders are spread out across the coasts. Since we’re located all over the country, communication using Slack, Gmail, Zoom, and other tools is key. We communicate regularly throughout the day, and you’ll never be alone.
We believe in giving our team members autonomy, and place value on the output of each team member.
Above all, we’re proud to engage in meaningful work that will impact tons of people throughout the family-building process.
We are an equal opportunity employer. Individuals seeking employment at our company are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
How to Apply
If this role sounds like a good fit, email us at careers@cofertility.com. Please include “Head of Engineering” in your subject line.