About Koa Health
Against the backdrop of decades of rising demand, mental health has never been more important. The Covid pandemic has led to a four-fold increase in mental disorders around the world, impacting individuals, companies, and communities. With no increase in the supply of clinicians, tens of millions of people are stranded today without access to care. Today, we simply don’t have enough mental health clinicians to meet demand. Koa Health aims to solve the gap between demand and supply with a unique human-digital hybrid approach, built upon the best digital technology in the literature. Koa’s digital assets deliver the highest quality care, measured through engagement, program completion, patient and clinician satisfaction, and clinical efficacy. Critically, Koa technology substantially increases clinician productivity, allowing our precious clinicians to treat more people. With more than fifty papers in the literature, twelve clinical trials, 26 patents, and broad and deep clinical networks in place, we have just launched Koa Care 360 - a uniquely scalable and profitable mental health care service.
Having secured a successful and oversubscribed Series A funding totaling €30m (ca.$36M) in October 2020 and additional €20m funding in May 2022, we are currently closing our Series B round of investment, with €12M secured from our existing investors. You can read more about Koa Health on our website here. There has never been a more critical moment for the work that we’re leading at Koa Health. And this is where you come in!
** Koa is accepting applications from people who can travel to work in Barcelona regularly. We do all work remotely as a team but value the ability to meet up when we want to. Usually on a monthly basis **
Your New Role
We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated VP of Engineering to join our dynamic team.
As the Vice President of Engineering at Koa Health, you will be instrumental in shaping the technical direction of our digital mental health platform and driving the development of our products. Collaborating closely with the SVP of Product, you will lead a talented engineering team to deliver robust, scalable, and data-driven solutions that prioritize user experience, clinical efficacy, and innovation. This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic startup in the digital mental health industry.
Responsibilities
- Technical Leadership: Provide strategic direction and leadership to the engineering team, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence.
- Product Development Collaboration: Collaborate closely with the SVP of Product to prioritize features, and deliver high-quality solutions that align with business objectives.
- Work closely with the Tech Leads on the definition and implementation of a solid technical roadmap.;
- Data-Driven Insights: Leverage data analytics and machine learning to derive actionable insights, inform product decisions, and enhance the effectiveness of our digital mental health offerings.
- Architecture and Scalability: Architect scalable, reliable, and secure systems to support our growing user base and evolving product portfolio, ensuring optimal performance and user experience.
- Team Management: Recruit, mentor, and inspire a high-performing engineering team, fostering professional growth and creating a culture of accountability and continuous learning.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including product management, design, clinical, and data science, to define requirements, prioritize initiatives, and drive successful product launches.
- Technical Excellence: Drive engineering best practices, code quality, and technical excellence across the organization, promoting a culture of craftsmanship and innovation.
- Client-facing: actively participate in discussions to explore potential integrations, collaborate on developing new features, and lead technical conversations.
- Strategic Planning: Partner with executive leadership to define and execute the long-term technical roadmap, identifying opportunities for innovation and competitive differentiation. Besides it will be responsible for the definition of the technology strategy with partners
- Continuous Improvement: Champion a culture of continuous improvement, experimentation, and feedback, driving iterative enhancements to our products and processes.
- Work with our cybersecurity team to implement best practices.
- Mentoring and coaching; you will cover multiple disciplines from product engineers, to DevOps, QA and integration specialists.
- Team coordination; ultimately, you will be accountable for the success of the engineering teams, making sure that business goals are clearly communicated and delivered on time.
Skills and Competencies
Functional
- Hands-on experience working in Agile/Scrum methodologies and frameworks
- Hands-on experience with cloud-based architecture (we use AWS)
- Hands-on experience building cloud-based data engineering solutions is a big plus;
- Hands-on Experience implementing automated testing platforms
- Excellent communication skills, fluency in English, comfortable with Clients
- Experience using most of our technology stack NodeJS (NestJS and Express are big pluses), TypeScript, Flutter, Angular, React, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, AWS and EKS
- Hands-on experience working with both a core full-time team and an outsourced model when appropriate
Core
- Problem Solving and Decision Making: Able to break complex problems into bite-size components, solve these components, and recombine into a global solution
- Planning and Prioritization: Prioritises and uses time effectively to meet or exceed expectations and deadlines
- Collaboration: Achieves results by working with the team towards a common goal
Line Manager
- Developing self and others: Strives to improve own and others’ capabilities and performance
- Conflict Resolution: Manages conflict in a constructive manner
- Performance Management: Encourages High Performing teamwork through Psychological safety
- Inclusiveness: I ensure that diverse members of the team can contribute
- I actively listen to all members of the team and seek their viewpoints
- I treat all team members with respect
- I strive to communicate in a way that all members of the team can understand
- I create space for all voices
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- Proven track record of leadership in a fast-paced technology startup environment, with at least 10 years of experience in engineering management or similar roles
- Deep technical expertise in software engineering, architecture, and cloud technologies, with hands-on experience in building and scaling mobile applications
- Strong understanding of data analytics, machine learning, and data-driven product development, with the ability to leverage data insights to inform decision-making and drive innovation
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, executive stakeholders and potential clients
- Accountability: Demonstrates a commitment to high performance by setting and signing up for challenging targets. Holds oneself and the engineering team accountable for delivering results, even in a fast-paced environment.
Why Koa Health?
We are at the forefront of innovation in digital health, working on one of today’s hottest topics – mental health. By working with Koa, you will make a positive impact on the lives of many people.
Aside from the power of our mission, we provide all the support and benefits to make your life at work and outside of work fun and comfortable year-round, such as:
- Competitive rewards package that includes: Food Allowance, Private Health Insurance, Pension Contribution, Life Insurance, Bonus Scheme, and Share Options
- We believe in walking the talk: We are focused on supporting your wellbeing and therefore provide you with a Wellbeing Allowance and Wellbeing Leave, as well as a generous annual leave allocation to help manage both your mental and physical health as you see fit
- Flexibility: We’re hiring your skills and experience, so ask you to use these in the most effective way you can whilst managing your work-life balance in your own way
- Worldwide WeWork membership: We provide access to WeWork for those who prefer hybrid working (remote and in the office). Across the world, you will find Koa teams collaborating on our private rooftop terrace in Barcelona and in our offices in downtown Boston and central London
- An international environment: Our teams, our clients and our collaborators span the US, the UK, Europe, and Asia. Our breadth of experience offers the opportunity to understand and get involved in healthcare systems worldwide.
An inclusive workplace
At Koa Health, we are proud to have a safe space where cultures, backgrounds, ideas and ways of solving problems combine. This unique mix is a big part of our recipe for success when it comes to working towards our mission of mental health for all. We firmly believe that diversity and inclusion should be embedded in the fabric of our organization and we know true progress comes with long-term commitments and actions. We are building a space where our people feel respected for who they are and are rewarded based on the impact they make to the business.
Regardless of your personal identifiers, at Koa Health you can be yourself, and feel respected, accepted and supported. We promote an inclusive culture where people who think and act differently can discover ways to learn from each other. Promoting diversity, inclusion, and equity must be a company-wide effort. As a scale-up company, we are creating a safe space that fosters acceptance and invites differences as part of our first steps toward building a resilient and inclusive work environment.
