Director of Frontend Engineering, Vida Health
$200-220k
More information about location
Virtual care for physical and mental illnesses
Posted today
Virtual care for physical and mental illnesses
501-1000 employees
Posted today
$200-220k
More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To eradicate chronic illness, both physical and mental.
Role
Who you are
- This role is ideal for a player/coach—someone who leads by example, is hands-on when needed and thrives on growing talent while building mission-critical systems
- The ideal candidate has extensive cross-platform expertise in React and React Native application development and demonstrates strong project management skills to keep the team on track to deliver high-quality results on ambitious projects
- 8+ years of experience in frontend engineering, with 3+ years leading teams in a high-growth, product-driven environment
- Hands-on expertise in React Native, React, TypeScript and mobile/web frontend architecture for performance and scalability
- Experience with native iOS and/or Android development, especially with integrating native modules in React Native
- Strong product instincts and proven ability to deliver AI-enhanced experiences, such as intelligent chat, real-time personalization or adaptive UI flows
- Experience leveraging AI development tools (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf, etc.) to accelerate frontend development cycles and improve code quality
- Familiar with backend webserver frameworks like Django or Flask
- Experience operating in hybrid onshore/offshore teams and improving engineering maturity in regulated domains
- Comfortable working in a player/coach capacity—mentoring and managing while remaining hands-on for key initiatives
- SF based is a plus!
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Director of Frontend Engineering who brings strong technical depth, product sensibility and leadership maturity
- This person will also play a critical role in driving our AI strategy forward across clinical, operational and development applications
- Lead the migration from native member mobile apps to a unified React Native platform across mobile and web
- Architect performant, modular frontend systems that enable AI-driven features like real-time personalization, behavior adaptation and conversational UX
- Act as a player/coach, contributing directly to the codebase during key initiatives or technical spikes
- Own the frontend engineering for Canvas Medical EMR integration and internal tools that power care delivery, scheduling, messaging and member service coordination
- Drive integration strategy to integrate React-based applications across multiple provider types, Medical Assistants and member services personas that orient around the member’s care plan
- Collaborate closely with Product, Clinical and Data teams to embed AI-driven clinical decision support and care automation into provider workflows
- Deliver integrated member experiences for covered populations that unlock growth from employer, payer and PBM partnerships such as onboarding SSO and stripe payments integrations
- Support Marketing and other GTM stakeholders for enhancements on website and other onboarding flows for members and plan sponsors
- Build flexible, scalable frameworks for rapid deployment of client-specific configurations that optimize for different populations and business objectives
- Drive a unified, scalable design system with tokens, theming, breakpoints and accessibility baked into every layer—from typography and animations to dark/light mode and responsive behavior
- Build and maintain a cross-platform component and experience infrastructure that includes loading states, progressive disclosure, A/B testing hooks and performance instrumentation
- Partner with design to build design-to-development workflows, including exploration of AI-assisted workflows (e.g., design-to-code translation) to accelerate handoff and reduce friction across product teams
- Raise the bar on technical operations: CI/CD, test coverage, incident response, performance monitoring and AI-assisted SDLC/QA practices
- Champion best practices in engineering productivity, release management and developer experience
- Deliver performant, high-quality features across iOS and Android, optimizing for user experience, maintainability and long-term scalability
- Build and lead a team of full-time and contract engineers with strengths across web, mobile and AI-integrated experiences - managing within healthcare compliance and governance regulations
- Develop a culture of cross-training, learning and innovation; helping engineers expand into new platforms and technologies including AI agents and copilots
- Establish clear career development paths, with an emphasis on growing both IC and tech lead roles
Our take
Technology presents a vast range of solutions to help improve the quality of care that individuals can access, including health tracking apps, digital medical appointments and virtual health coaching. However, these innovations have ultimately resulted in a tangle of resources and solutions which can be difficult or inconvenient to access.
Vida Health integrates a wide variety of these innovations in the healthcare industry into packages, aiming to provide improved healthcare to individuals, employers and health insurers with an organized selection of physical and mental health services. This approach is more convenient and effective than finding and signing on to individual services, and Vida has accordingly grown a large customer base including the likes of PayPal, ebay and Prudential.
With the mass of options available to improve healthcare becoming overwhelming, Vida Health has been smart to identify the need for an integrated solution. Investors agree - it has attracted significant levels of funding. Going forward the company is well poised to grow further as employers increasingly realize the importance of supporting their employees' mental and physical health needs.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-28% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Nov 2023
$28.5m
LATE VC
May 2021
$110m
SERIES D
Total funding: $216.5m
Company benefits
- Flexible paid time off
- Paid parental and family leave
- Learning and development opportunities
- Monthly wellness benefit
- Vida program access
- Work from home opportunities
- Comprehensive health plans
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Stephanie Tilenius
(CEO & Founder)Previously VP & GM of PayPal Merchant Services at PayPal SVP & GM - North America and Global Product at eBay and Vice President - Commerce and Payments at Google.
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