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Lirio · 1 month ago

VP, Engineering

Knoxville or Nashville, TN

Full-time

Onsite

Director/Executive

$225K/yr - $250K/yr

10+ years exp

Lirio is a technology/software company that provides expertise in behavioral science, data science, and machine learning to drive consumer engagement and promote health across individual lifespans. The VP of Engineering will lead Lirio's engineering organization, ensuring the delivery of high-quality software and overseeing the implementation of engineering best practices.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Health CareInformation TechnologyMachine Learning

Comp. & Benefits

No H1B

Responsibilities

Ensures execution of product and platform roadmaps through measurable delivery outcomes aligned to company OKRs

Drives the productization of Lirio’s internal platforms and services to enable repeatable, scalable SaaS and PaaS deployments

Advances developer productivity through AI-assisted tooling, automation, and standardized engineering environments

Establishes and tracks key engineering metrics (e.g., velocity, uptime, defect rates) to inform process improvement and operational excellence

Establishes and enforces standardized engineering processes and toolchains across engineering groups to ensure consistency and efficiency

Oversees cloud governance and cost optimization across environments, ensuring secure, scalable, and efficient use of cloud resources

Promotes privacy-by-design and data governance practices within engineering, ensuring compliance with healthcare and data protection standards (e.g., HIPAA, GDPR)

Creates and collaborates in conjunction with the CTO on Lirio’s technical strategy including research and development goals and the engineering roadmap

Collaborates with Product, Data, AI, and Behavioral Science leadership to align technical direction with product and scientific research goals

Contributes to and operationalizes Lirio’s technical architecture strategy in partnership with the Chief Architect and Architecture Team, ensuring scalability, extensibility, and interoperability across systems through the Engineering Council

Identifies and evaluates technologies that can be used to support Lirio’s product

Builds and sustains a strong engineering culture across distributed teams and time zones

Develops emerging leaders and managers to strengthen organizational capacity and continuity

Selects, develops, and evaluates personnel to ensure efficient engineering, testing, deployment, and operation of Lirio’s software and cloud systems

Directs and coordinates a broad functional engineering group through department managers and staff engineers, including full-stack software development, back-end development, data engineering and cloud engineering

Oversees planning, staffing, budgeting, and expense management, and recommends improvements to processes and methods

Serves as technical manager for outsourced and contracted developers

Set quarterly team OKRs (objectives and key results). Work with direct reports to ensure individual OKRs are set and aligned on a quarterly basis

Conduct quarterly OKR review meetings with each direct report

Serve as a technical contributor on the Architecture Team

Works on complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth knowledge of the company, its engineered solutions, and/or its processes and practices

Contributes code or prototypes as appropriate to accelerate delivery or validate design decisions

Regular and reliable attendance

Pursue continuous learning through individual study, online courses, product documentation, and community resources

Perform other duties as assigned

Comply with information security policies, procedures, laws, guidelines, contracts, and regulations as set forth by Lirio

Read security and privacy policies and procedures, participate in privacy and security training, report suspected or known incidents, and sign various attestations agreeing to comply with the guidelines listed in said agreement

Qualification

AI-centered systemsHealthcare softwareTechnical leadershipFull-stack software engineeringAgile SDLCMicroservices architecturesAWS/AzureCollaboration skillsCommunication skillsProblem solvingCritical thinking

Required

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field

10+ years of related experience with at least 4 years of management and technical leadership responsibility

Extensive hands-on technical experience building and fielding B2B/B2C production systems

Extensive business knowledge and experience collaborating and communicating with executives and senior leadership

Extensive experience in technical and people (supervisory) leadership roles. Ability to resolve critical issues and contribute to organizational development

Strong collaboration, communication, problem solving and critical thinking skills to clearly outline objectives, define goals for the team and articulate end state to both technical and non-technical audiences

Ability to manage a distributed engineering team across multiple time zones

Extensive experience working within an Agile SDLC

Full-stack software engineering, DevOps, Microservices architectures, Eventually consistent architectures, AWS/Azure, data systems and architectures

Experience leading the development/deployment of AI-centered systems is key for this role

Experience delivering healthcare-related systems/software is key for this role