Head of Engineering

Everlab is building the platform to look after peoples health for their entire lives. Not just an app but the infrastructure to connect every available healthcare service give people comprehensive data on their health and deliver truly personalised care.

Since our $15M Seed raise in June 2025 weve grown revenue 23x. The team is still lean the problems are genuinely hard and were about to scale locally and globally. This is the moment to join.

Were hiring our first Head of Engineering to help us get there.

The Role

This is a newly created position youll be the first Engineering leader at Everlab working directly with the Founder to shape how we build grow and operate our engineering function.

Youll take ownership of a team of 12 engineers across five squads (Platform Supply Clinical Operations Patient App and Core Services) with clear plans to scale to 30 as we continue to grow.

You wont be writing code every day but youll be close enough to the technical work to contribute to architecture discussions guiding solution design and making the trade-offs that matter.

Well invest in a thorough onboarding and work closely with you in the early months. By 69 months the goal is for you to be driving the engineering roadmap and team operations.

Our five squads

• Platform: DevOps performance and infrastructure. The foundation everything else runs on.

• Supply: Integrations with clinical services diagnostics bookings and external APIs. HL7/FHIR distributed systems reliability at the edges.

• Clinical Operations: Backend workflows for doctors and ops teams. Complex domain modelling FSM-driven state management deep collaboration with clinicians.

• Patient App: Consumer-facing iOS Android and web. Real-time health data pixel-perfect UI making complex clinical information feel simple.

• Core Services: Payments notifications events and the shared infrastructure other squads build on.

What You Will Do

Lead and grow the engineering team

• Own people management across all engineering squads: performance culture hiring and team structure.

• Mentor and develop future Engineering Managers from within the team building leadership capability as we scale.

• Drive headcount planning and hiring to take the team from 12 to 30 engineers without losing the culture that makes us good.

Stay close to the technical work

• Participate meaningfully in architecture and solution design discussions across squads.

• Help engineers navigate complex technical trade-offs not by prescribing answers but by coaching better thinking.

• Maintain enough technical depth to hold a Principal Engineer accountable and earn the trust of the people building.
  

Own delivery and accountability

• Be directly accountable for the projects your teams are driving including the Platform DevOps team.

• Set and communicate clear engineering standards processes and expectations as we scale.

• Partner with Product and the Founder to translate business priorities into a coherent engineering roadmap.
  

Build what scale requires

• Design the team structures processes and systems that let us grow without slowing down.

• Apply what youve learned from previous scale-up journeys: what to build now what to wait on and where to invest.

• Help us expand infrastructure and platform capabilities to support new cities and markets efficiently.

What Were Looking For

• Scale-up experience: Youve been through a genuine scale-up journey either in this exact role or as an Engineering Manager or Team Lead who lived through it. You understand what scaling actually looks like: the trade-offs the growing pains and what good looks like on the other side. This is a critical requirement.

• Technical credibility: Youre not writing code day-to-day but youre still close enough to architecture and system design to hold your own in any technical discussion. You can coach engineers through solution design challenge assumptions and make informed trade-offs. Think: somewhere between a Principal Engineer and a seasoned Engineering Manager.

• People leadership: You have a strong track record of managing and developing engineering teams. You care about the people not just the output. You know how to give feedback build trust and create the conditions for engineers to do their best work.

• Startup experience: Youve worked in early-stage or high-growth environments before. You know how to move fast with limited resources and youre comfortable with ambiguity. You dont need perfect information to make good decisions.

• Ownership mindset: You operate with a high degree of autonomy. You dont wait to be told what to do. You identify the problems build the plan and drive the outcome.

• Culture fit: You communicate clearly and directly. You care more about team success than personal credit. You disagree when it matters and commit once decisions are made. You genuinely care about building something meaningful.

Why its great to work at Everlabs:

• Do work that matters: Were building the future of preventive health. Use your skills to prevent disease improve access to personalised care and reduce pressure on the health system.

• Work directly with the Founder: As the first Engineering leader youll have real influence on how Everlab builds and operates not just executing someone elses vision.

• High-growth environment: 23x revenue growth since our Seed round. Weve found strong PMF early and people who thrive on pace and opportunity will love this stage.

• Work-life flexibility: Hybrid working with 23 days in the office plus flexibility to manage life beyond the 9 to 5 when it matters.

• Experience Everlab as a customer: Full access to the Everlab health program provided after successfully passing probation.

• Share in our success: Employee Share Option Plan included as part of your total remuneration. We grow together.

• People youll love working with: A welcoming mission-driven team of smart thoughtful people doing meaningful work.