Vice President of Engineering, 1upHealth
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Modern data platform for healthcare
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Modern data platform for healthcare
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
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101-200 employees
Company mission
To redefine interoperability and solve healthcare's toughest data challenges.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years in software engineering, with 5+ years in a senior leadership role
- Proven experience scaling distributed systems and data platforms in cloud environments (AWS or GCP)
- Deep technical expertise in modern backend technologies, data pipelines, and distributed architecture
- Strong track record of building and leading high-performing engineering teams
- Demonstrated success working in regulated industries or delivering compliant, enterprise-grade systems
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and strategic execution skills
- Strong preference for Boston-based candidates
- Nice-to-Have Qualifications:
Desirable
- Experience with FHIR, HL7, and healthcare interoperability standards
- Background in real-time data processing, event-driven systems (e.g., Kafka), or large-scale data ingestion and transformation
- Familiarity with DevSecOps practices and infrastructure automation
- Experience with platform engineering and developer enablement
- Prior experience in a high-growth startup or scaling SaaS environment
What the job involves
- As our VP of Engineering, you will lead the team that turns platform vision into secure, scalable execution.
- You will shape the architecture, operations, and engineering culture that powers our core infrastructure.
- Your leadership will be critical in helping healthcare organizations unlock the full value of their data
- Own and evangelize the company’s technology vision and translate product goals into scalable architecture and robust engineering execution plans
- Build, lead, and scale a high-performing engineering team across backend, platform, CloudOps, and data engineering functions
- Support and deliver a cloud-native, distributed system capable of processing and serving massive volumes of healthcare data
- Champion engineering best practices, including CI/CD, observability, infrastructure as code, and reliability engineering
- Guide teams in effectively adopting AI-powered tooling and automation to enhance developer productivity, code quality, and system observability
- Define and track engineering OKRs and metrics to evaluate system performance, scalability, and team productivity
- Develop and nurture a high-performing engineering team by fostering a culture of excellence, coaching engineers and managers, and creating future technical and organizational leaders
- Partner closely with product, services, and compliance teams to develop secure, HIPAA-compliant solutions
- Work directly with customers and partners to understand performance requirements, data use cases, and system integrations
- Guide technical decision-making across the company, including data interoperability, API design, and platform extensibility
- Collaborate with leadership to ensure our platform supports both payer and provider needs in a rapidly evolving healthcare ecosystem
- Lead the development of a modern data platform leveraging FHIR, HL7, and other healthcare standards to ingest, normalize, and serve data at scale
- Drive innovation in data architecture, distributed processing, and scalable microservices infrastructure
- Ensure uptime, reliability, and performance of mission-critical systems in production
- Implement platform governance, security, and observability as foundational elements of our engineering culture
Our take
Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) is a global healthcare interoperability standard currently being adopted by major organizations across the US (including the US government) to facilitate the electronic exchange of healthcare information. 1upHealth is a health-tech company helping new organizations adopt the standard by converting data to FHIR and facilitating data sharing and analytics.
The federal government is pushing the healthcare industry to adopt FHIR-based APIs, which will be to 1upHealth’s benefit. The market appears to still be relatively unpopulated in the US, and as 1upHealth facilitates the entry of others into it, it may carve out a real and lucrative niche. Regulations that push for adoption are already coming into play - since 2021, for example, providers are obliged to make specific data available through FHIR APIs.
This market seems yet to mature in the US, and the 2017-founded 1upHealth could stand to make real progress alongside it as it does. Most recently, the company was ranked the 43rd Fastest-Growing Company in North America on the 2024 Deloitte Technology Fast 500, a significant achievement marking the company one to watch in the developing space.
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Insights
35% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Apr 2023
$40m
SERIES C
Apr 2021
$25m
SERIES B
Total funding: $76.1m
Company benefits
- Remote first culture: work from anywhere in the US, our Boston headquarters, or a combination of both
- Flexible PTO: Take what you need PTO policy with no accruals
- Medical, dental & vision: 100% of employee premiums paid by 1upHealth
- Paid leave: 16 weeks of fully paid leave plus a 4 week phased return to work schedule for birthday parents, and 6 weeks of fully paid parental leave for non-birthing parents
- Wellness benefit: Get reimbursed for up to $1,400 annually for expenses that contribute to your total wellbeing
- Anniversary bonus: At your 2 year anniversary receive $2,000, at your 5 years anniversary $5,000 towards a vacation of your choice
- Home office stipend: $400 to elevate your home office
Company HQ
Fenway–Kenmore, Boston, MA
Leadership
Andrew Boyd
(CEO)Joined 1upHealth in 2024 as CEO. Prior to that, they were the EVP and General Manager of Personify Health, the EVp of Strategy and Corporate Development at Virgin Pulse, and the Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer at Dimensional Insight.
Nolan Kelly
(CRO)Initially joined 1upHealth in 2020 as VP of Sales before becoming CRO in 2022. Prior to this, they were a Senior Director of Health Systems and Advisory Board Member at PatientPing, Vp of Business Development at Linkwell health, and Director of Diversified business Development at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts.
Mark Wolf
(CFO)They joined 1upHealth in 2020 as CFO. Alongside this they are the CFO Advisor at Snorkel AI and Percepto, as well as the CFO at IdeaScale. Previously, they were the CFO Advisor at Courier, Ironclad, and Mux.
Donald Rucker
(CSO)They joined 1upHalth in 2021 as CSO. They have also served as an Adjunct Professor of Emergency Medicine at Ohio State University since 2013. Previously, they were the National Coordinator at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health information Technology. They were also CMO at Premise Health and Vice President and CMO at Siemens Healthcare USA.
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