# Head of Engineering

Develop Health is on a mission to use AI to radically accelerate access to life-saving medications. By automating complex, manual healthcare processes-like benefit verification and prior authorization-we've been growing rapidly and over the past couple of years have helped over 3.6 million patients! We’re partnering with some of the largest pharmacy benefit managers and payers in the nation, revolutionizing how healthcare interactions occur by eliminating human delays and inefficiencies. Our small, elite team of founders and engineers have previously launched and exited successful healthcare startups including Rupa Health and Canvas Medical. We are now scaling rapidly following a major funding round. About The Role As Head of Engineering, you will lead the teams building the technology and workflows that enable us to solve the prior authorization bottleneck challenging prescribers, pharmacies, and pharma - and most importantly, the patients who need medication. This is a hands-on technical leadership role: you will run day-to-day engineering execution, grow and develop engineers and tech leads, and stay close enough to the code to make the hard architectural calls. You’ll also be r

- **Id**: 3963623
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/develophealth-head-of-engineering>
- **Role**: Leadership
- **Role family**: Leadership
- **Seniority**: head
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T11:20:14Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T12:59:04Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
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- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Consumer Health Apps

## Company

- **Id**: 4427
- **Name**: Develophealth
- **Domain**: develophealth.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/develophealth>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Technologies

- **LLM** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-09T12:59:04Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: no; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 5; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Offered visa sponsorship in 5 of its adverts here in 24 months; Filings 12m: 0

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T16:26:11Z

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