SVP, Engineering Greater New York City, NY Area

About the Company

At Covera Health, we're on a mission to improve healthcare by making every diagnosis more accurate.

Every year, millions of patients receive imaging that shapes life changing medical decisions. Yet too often, important findings are missed, patients struggle to access high quality imaging, and the healthcare system treats radiology like a commodity instead of one of the most critical moments in a patient's care journey.

We're changing that.

Covera combines clinical expertise, advanced AI, and one of the industry's largest radiology quality datasets to help detect disease earlier, improve diagnostic accuracy, and give clinicians greater confidence in every decision they make. Better diagnoses lead to better treatment, fewer unnecessary procedures, lower healthcare costs, and, most importantly, better outcomes for patients.

In 2026, Covera and Medmo came together to create the first platform designed to support the entire radiology journey. From helping patients find and schedule high quality imaging, to coordinating care, to ensuring the accuracy of every diagnosis, we're building a connected experience that simply hasn't existed before.

Backed by Insight Partners, our platform supports nearly 6 million people across Fortune 10 and Fortune 100 employers, three of the five largest national health plans, and thousands of value based primary care physicians.

This is an exciting moment to join Covera. We're building technology that is helping detect serious conditions earlier, improving the quality of care for millions of patients, and redefining what healthcare can be. If you're excited by meaningful work, ambitious teammates, and the opportunity to help save lives through better healthcare, we'd love to meet you.

About the role

As Senior Vice President of Engineering, you will lead Covera Health's Engineering and Platform/IT organizations, with direct ownership of our technology architecture, engineering standards, and technical execution. You will lead a technology organization of approximately 30 people, including Engineering and AI, and play an active role in the technical decisions that shape our products and platforms.

Reporting to the Chief Product & Technology Officer, you will serve as a deeply technical and operational partner to a strategically focused technology executive. You will own day-to-day engineering execution, architecture, technical quality, and reliability, making decisions independently while working closely with the CPTO on broader product and technology strategy.

You will lead a small but mighty team, leveraging modern AI-powered development practices and state-of-the-art tools to accelerate development, improve efficiency, and deliver high-quality solutions. This is a hands-on technical leadership role. You will stay close to the work, participating in architecture and design reviews, working through complex data platform challenges, and helping teams resolve critical production issues.

As a senior technology leader with strong product instincts, you will connect technology decisions to customer and business needs. You will serve as a critical bridge between Engineering and teams across the company, ensuring technical decisions support the products we're building and the problems we're solving for customers and patients.

In this role, you will be expected to:

Lead a technology organization of approximately 30 people across Engineering, AI, and Platform/IT, remaining closely involved in architecture, technical decisions, and engineering execution.

Partner with the CPTO to turn product and company strategy into technical execution, independently owning engineering decisions, architecture, technical quality, and day-to-day delivery.

Lead and develop a small group of engineering leaders while staying directly connected to the teams and the technical challenges they are solving.

Improve engineering effectiveness through strong technical practices, clear priorities, practical processes, and a focus on delivering reliable, high-quality software.

Bring strong product judgment to technology decisions, ensuring Engineering understands the customer, product, and business context behind what we build and how we prioritize.

Serve as a key bridge between Engineering and Product, Data, AI, Clinical, Operations, Security, and other teams, working directly with stakeholders to solve problems, prioritize technical investments, and move work forward.

Own technical architecture and engineering standards across application development, cloud infrastructure, data platforms and pipelines, integrations, and enterprise technology. Stay actively involved in design reviews and complex technical decisions.

Ensure Covera's platforms and systems can scale reliably and securely as our products, customers, data sources, and partnerships grow.

Set and maintain a high engineering bar, actively reviewing architecture and technical approaches to ensure solutions balance performance, scalability, reliability, security, cost, and speed.Recruit, develop, and retain exceptional technology talent while building a technically strong team that values ownership, collaboration, and engineering excellence.

Build a culture where engineers take ownership, make sound technical decisions, and remain focused on delivering meaningful product and business outcomes.Ensure Covera's technology organization can support increasingly complex data and AI-driven products while meeting the privacy, security, reliability, and quality requirements of healthcare.

Communicate technical decisions, priorities, risks, and tradeoffs clearly to both engineering teams and executive stakeholders.

Remain actively involved in diagnosing and resolving complex technical challenges, including data pipeline issues, architectural decisions, system performance, and critical production incidents.

Requirements:

15+ years of progressive software engineering and technology experience, including deep technical experience building and operating complex software systems and leading engineering teams.

Experience leading engineering teams and engineering managers while remaining actively involved in technical architecture, design, and execution.

Demonstrated success building technically strong, high-performing engineering teams with a culture of ownership, accountability, and high engineering standards..

Strong product instincts and demonstrated ability to connect technology strategy and execution to product, customer, and business needs.

Demonstrated ability to partner closely with Product leadership and operate effectively at the intersection of product and engineering.

Deep technical expertise and strong architectural judgment, with the ability and desire to remain actively involved in design reviews, technical problem-solving, and critical engineering decisions.

Experience building, scaling, and operating large-scale, data-intensive production systems and platforms.

Deep technical knowledge of modern software engineering, cloud infrastructure, data platforms and pipelines, integrations, security, reliability, and data architecture.

Experience improving engineering quality, reliability, and delivery through strong technical practices, effective tooling, and practical team leadership.

Demonstrated ability to make complex cross-functional decisions, resolve competing priorities, and create alignment across multiple teams and functions.

Experience working with ML/AI engineering teams or overseeing products and platforms incorporating AI/ML capabilities.

Strong track record of recruiting, developing, and retaining exceptional engineering leaders and talent.

Experience operating in fast-paced startup or growth-stage environments.

Excellent executive communication and cross-functional leadership skills.

Experience building or leading modern, data-intensive technology platforms, with a strong understanding of complex data pipelines, distributed systems, and production reliability.

Demonstrated ability to balance technical depth with leadership responsibilities, remaining close to engineering work while guiding teams and making broader technology decisions.

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience at a healthcare technology or data company building modern software platforms or technically complex products using clinical, imaging, or claims data.

Experience with healthcare or clinical data environments, including familiarity with HL7 and/or DICOM.

Experience with modern data and analytics platforms such as Databricks, Spark, or similar technologies.

Experience with AWS or equivalent cloud infrastructure.

Experience transitioning from a highly technical engineering environment into a leadership role at a startup or growth-stage company.

Experience developing engineering depth and technical leadership at a large-scale technology company, followed by engineering leadership experience in a smaller, product-focused organization.

How We Work

We're a remote-first company with teammates working across the U.S. We value flexibility, but strong communication, collaboration, and accountability are essential to how we work.

We're still a small, hands-on startup team with under 200 employees. We work hard, move quickly, and care about getting things right. Everyone is expected to take ownership, solve problems, and contribute beyond their day-to-day responsibilities when needed. We're building and improving as we grow, so being comfortable with change, taking initiative, swerving in and out of lanes to get things done, and following through are important to succeeding here. Something we are really proud of is that your job on day 1 will definitely not be the same at year 1, because there is so much to do and we all grow alongside the business.

For those in NYC, our Penn 1 office gives us a place to connect in person. Wednesdays are a popular day for local teammates to come together, collaborate, and enjoy lunch. We take our work seriously, but we also enjoy working together and having fun along the way.

AI at Covera

At Covera Health, AI is not a novelty. It's a core part of how we work. Every team member is expected to actively use AI in their day-to-day role, and we invest in building that fluency across the organization. If you lean into new tools and are energized by what's still possible, you'll fit in.

Benefits

Comprehensive medical plans - choose from three plans, including one with 100% of premiums covered for you and your dependents

Vision & Dental

Hybrid Time Off Policy (Flexible Time Off (FTO) Policy for exempt employees and Paid Time Off (PTO) Policy for non-exempt employees)

Sick days in accordance with your state law

12 weeks of paid parental leave

12 Fixed Holidays (company closed)

5 Covera Days

401(k) Retirement Plan

Annual Professional Development Stipend to invest in courses, books, or any other professional development related activity

Annual Wellness stipend for fitness, mental health or other wellness expenses

Please note

We may use automated tools and/or AI to assist in reviewing applications.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. Equal Opportunity is the Law, and Covera Health is proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace and affirmative action employer. If you have a specific need that requires accommodation, please let a member of the People Team know.

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