Vice President, Engineering - San Francisco

PayZen is on a mission to bring financial health to healthcare. Our products improve both access and affordability for patients and cash flow & administrative complexity for medical providers. We are trusted by a rapidly growing number of health systems, hospitals, and physician groups and are backed by leading venture capital investors.

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Vice President of Engineering to lead the development and scaling of PayZen’s FinTech software solutions in our San Francisco office. We work a hybrid schedule, onsite 3 days per week (Monday, Tuesday & Thursday).  As the Vice President of Engineering, you will be pivotal in shaping PayZen’s product's future and driving the company’s growth trajectory.

What you will do

• Lead and grow the engineering team in our San Francisco office, setting up the team for success in a microservices environment, operating on Kubernetes.  

• Collaborate with the existing overseas engineering team to ensure consistency in the product development processes.

• Drive development, testing, and deployment of robust, scalable software solutions in JavaScript, focusing on Node.js and React.

• Create and oversee the entire software development lifecycle, ensuring adherence to best practices and high-quality standards. 

• Empower the engineering team to excel in their roles while fostering a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and customer focus.

• Collaborate closely with Product Managers, DevOps, and other stakeholders to align engineering efforts with company goals.

• Spearhead innovative strategies to enhance system performance, reliability, and scalability while managing multiple cross-functional projects, ensuring efficient and effective execution.

• Act as a technical mentor and coach to a team of engineers of varying skills and experience.

• Create high-level systems, subsystems, and services with clearly defined interfaces, data models, and documentation.

• Adopt, refine, and operate various solutions, open-source and commercial software such as Amazon  AWS.  

• Follow emerging trends in cloud, serverless technologies, machine learning, and data science.

• Create and maintain a technology roadmap to handle product development and customer needs while reducing tech debt.

• Collaborate closely with other teams and support various financial, budgeting, and cost justifications. Ensure efficiency in costs related to operating needs, licenses, staff, and training needs.

What you will bring

• Passion for success and the ability to foster a culture of enthusiasm and accountability.

• Unquestionable ethics and integrity are essential. 

• 6+ years of development experience in JavaScript, specifically with expertise in Node.js and React.

• At least 3 years of experience managing and building high-performing engineering teams, including experience setting up new teams or offices.

• Bachelor's degree in IT, Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent is preferred. MBA is a nice to have.

• Strong experience in microservices architectures and Kubernetes.

• Proven ability to lead large-scale technical projects and initiatives.

• Familiarity with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines.

• Experience with cloud technologies, preferably AWS, GCP, or Azure.

• Strong understanding of web technologies, databases, and networking concepts.

• Experience in a fast-paced, high-growth tech environment is highly desirable.

• Excellet problem-solving, strategic thinking, and leadership skills.

• Demonstrated success building new processes from scratch and transforming processes, data, systems, and practices in complex, global, multi-stakeholder environments.

• Exceptional written, oral, interpersonal, and presentation skills and the ability to communicate effectively with management.

What we offer

• An opportunity to positively affect the lives of thousands of patients

• A flexible lifestyle that fits the modern work-life balance

• A chance to join a high-growth company at an early stage

• Highly skilled co-workers with whom you can grow your skill-set

• Be a part of a team that revolutionizes medical payments in ways never seen before

• The ability to impact company values and culture in a collaborative environment - we value all comments and suggestions

• Competitive pay, benefits and stock options