VP, Engineering

Lirio is a technology/software company that provides expertise in a variety of behavioral science domains (e.g., behavioral economics, social psychology, public health), data science, and machine learning to drive consumer engagement, close gaps in preventive and chronic care, and promote health and well-being across an individual’s lifespan. Lirio’s behavior change AI platform unites behavioral science with advanced artificial intelligence (AI) to deliver Precision Nudging health interventions. Precision Nudging is the application of behavioral science to health interventions personalized by AI to each individual that overcome barriers to action at the right time and place for scalable, behavior change.  

This is a remote-first role, but applicants must be located in Knoxville or Nashville, TN and must be willing to do occaisonal in-office days. All applicants must be authorized to work in the US without sponsorship.  

Position Summary 

The VP of Engineering leads and directs the activities of Lirio’s engineering organization, spanning software, cloud, data and developer platform teams. The VP is responsible for both how Lirio engineers build software and what they build, advancing Lirio’s mission to use AI and behavioral science to support people in their unique healthcare journey through scalable, secure, and reliable engineering practices. 

The VP oversees delivery of Lirio’s product software, including platform microservices, web applications, data and analytics pipelines, and cloud-native services that power client and patient experiences. This role drives a culture of reliability, quality, and continuous improvement across the engineering organization, emphasizing fault-tolerant code and system design, automated testing, secure DevOps practices, AI-assisted development, and continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD).

The VP leads both staff and contracted engineering resources and is accountable for the execution and continuous improvement of engineering processes, practices, and artifacts throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC), ensuring Lirio’s solutions meet the highest standards for scalability, performance, security, and excellence.   

Essential Duties & Responsibilities 

Engineering Leadership 

• Ensures execution of product and platform roadmaps through measurable delivery outcomes aligned to company OKRs.
• Drives the productization of Lirio’s internal platforms and services to enable repeatable, scalable SaaS and PaaS deployments.
• Advances developer productivity through AI-assisted tooling, automation, and standardized engineering environments.
• Establishes and tracks key engineering metrics (e.g., velocity, uptime, defect rates) to inform process improvement and operational excellence.
• Establishes and enforces standardized engineering processes and toolchains across engineering groups to ensure consistency and efficiency.
• Oversees cloud governance and cost optimization across environments, ensuring secure, scalable, and efficient use of cloud resources.
• Promotes privacy-by-design and data governance practices within engineering, ensuring compliance with healthcare and data protection standards (e.g., HIPAA, GDPR). 

Technical Strategy 

• Creates and collaborates in conjunction with the CTO on Lirio’s technical strategy including research and development goals and the engineering roadmap
• Collaborates with Product, Data, AI, and Behavioral Science leadership to align technical direction with product and scientific research goals.
• Contributes to and operationalizes Lirio’s technical architecture strategy in partnership with the Chief Architect and Architecture Team, ensuring scalability, extensibility, and interoperability across systems through the Engineering Council.
• Identifies and evaluates technologies that can be used to support Lirio’s product  

People Leadership 

• Builds and sustains a strong engineering culture across distributed teams and time zones.
• Develops emerging leaders and managers to strengthen organizational capacity and continuity.
• Selects, develops, and evaluates personnel to ensure efficient engineering, testing, deployment, and operation of Lirio’s software and cloud systems.
• Directs and coordinates a broad functional engineering group through department managers and staff engineers, including full-stack software development, back-end development, data engineering and cloud engineering.  
• Oversees planning, staffing, budgeting, and expense management, and recommends improvements to processes and methods.  
• Serves as technical manager for outsourced and contracted developers. 
• Set quarterly team OKRs (objectives and key results). Work with direct reports to ensure individual OKRs are set and aligned on a quarterly basis.
• Conduct quarterly OKR review meetings with each direct report.

Individual Contributor 

• Serve as a technical contributor on the Architecture Team
• Works on complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth knowledge of the company, its engineered solutions, and/or its processes and practices.
• Contributes code or prototypes as appropriate to accelerate delivery or validate design decisions. 

Administrative 

• Regular and reliable attendance.
• Pursue continuous learning through individual study, online courses, product documentation, and community resources.
• Perform other duties as assigned. 
• Comply with information security policies, procedures, laws, guidelines, contracts, and regulations as set forth by Lirio.
• Read security and privacy policies and procedures, participate in privacy and security training, report suspected or known incidents, and sign various attestations agreeing to comply with the guidelines listed in said agreement. 

Qualifications 

•  Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field.
• 10+ years of related experience with at least 4 years of management and technical leadership responsibility.
• Extensive hands-on technical experience building and fielding B2B/B2C production systems. 
• Extensive business knowledge and experience collaborating and communicating with executives and senior leadership.  
• Extensive experience in technical and people (supervisory) leadership roles. Ability to resolve critical issues and contribute to organizational development.  
• Strong collaboration, communication, problem solving and critical thinking skills to clearly outline objectives, define goals for the team and articulate end state to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to manage a distributed engineering team across multiple time zones. 
• Extensive experience working within an Agile SDLC.
• Full-stack software engineering, DevOps, Microservices architectures, Eventually consistent architectures, AWS/Azure, data systems and architectures.
• Experience leading the development/deployment of AI-centered systems is key for this role.
• Experience delivering healthcare-related systems/software is key for this role.    

   

Benefits 

• Medical (HSA available)
• Dental
• Vision
• Short-term & long-term disability (company-paid)
• Life & AD&D Insurance (company-paid)
• 401K with company match
• 10 paid holidays, quarterly company closure days, & holiday week company closure
• Paid parental leave
• Flexible time off policy
• Work from home
• Salary range:  $225,000- $250,000