Engineering Pod Lead, Growth at Neko Health (New York, NY)

Neko Health· New York, NY·1d ago

Role details

Work type

Hybrid

Employment

Full-Time

Level

Lead

Neko Health at a glance

Preventive full-body health scanning built on proprietary in-house hardware and AI, co-founded by Spotify's Daniel Ek.

Neko Health runs a roughly one-hour, non-invasive full-body health scan that captures skin, cardiovascular, and blood data using hardware it designs and builds in-house, then has a doctor review the results with the member on the spot, aiming to catch disease early in people who feel healthy.

~$325M raised · latest: Series B ($260M, January 2025, at a $1.8B valuation) · backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, General Catalyst, Atomico, Lakestar

Job description

Mission Neko is redefining what prevention means, from treating illness when it arrives, to sustaining health before it's ever at risk. Our mission: make data-driven, preventative care accessible to more people, before symptoms appear.

In a single, non-invasive visit under an hour, proprietary technology and direct clinical care combine to deliver personalised, actionable insights. It's a team that thinks in 10x, not 10%. Every role here plays a part in building a world where prevention is the norm, and where your work genuinely helps people live longer, healthier lives.

Role Purpose

We are looking for an Engineering Pod Lead for Growth: a building leader who is obsessed with growth and wants to stay deep in the work. You lead a pod of four to six engineers, spending most of your time building and delivering, and the rest setting technical direction, owning quality and raising the bar for the people around you. Growth owns how people find Neko, join it, pay for it and bring their friends: the website, waitlist, booking, payments, referrals, invites, membership tiers, B2B, localization, and the launch of every new clinic and market. More clinics and more members mean more lives improved and saved, and the faster we grow, the more lives we reach. You watch the dashboards daily, run experiments in days rather than quarters, and build the loops that compound.

What You'll Deliver in the First 6–12 Months

Ship the Growth roadmap on time and at quality, building alongside the pod on the funnel, payments, booking and launches (Impact, not activity).
Set the technical direction for growth at Neko: architecture and instrumentation that let the pod test fast and launches where a new clinic or market is configuration, not a project (Chase 10X, not 10%).
Own quality: what gets tested, how we release, what ships. Public surfaces that are fast, secure, and resilient to fraud and abuse (Member-first, always).
A pod that gets better every quarter: hiring, mentorship, direct feedback, and AI tools in every engineer's loop (Tech-enabled, human-centered).
Know what is really going on, in the code and in the numbers, and say so (Optimistic truth seeking).

Minimum Qualifications

Deep experience building consumer products across the stack, with real depth in at least one of payments, growth systems, internationalization or the web platform.
You have owned a funnel, a conversion rate or a revenue line, and moved it.
You have run experiments with discipline and know the difference between a result and noise.
You have led engineers as a tech lead or equivalent and raised a team's standards and judgment. Direct, low-ego, high expectations.
Daily use of AI coding tools, and you can show what you have shipped with them

Preferred Qualifications

Launching a consumer product in a new country or market.
Referral, invite or viral loops that drove growth.
A regulated or trust-critical domain: healthcare, fintech or similar.
Fraud, abuse and bot resilience on public surfaces.

Our Stack

Frontend: React, React Native, TypeScript, Swift and Kotlin where needed, Next.js, Sanity, Vercel
Backend: C#, Node, Cosmos DB
Design: Figma
Tooling: Azure DevOps, Claude Code

Why work at Neko Health

Mission-Driven: The company was founded to solve the fundamental problem of late-stage diagnosis by focusing on prevention. The work is presented as having a direct, positive impact on human longevity.
Culture & Engineering: The company actively showcases a deep engineering culture where “clinical insight can become a hardware iteration overnight.” Clinicians and engineers share the same floor, fostering rapid iteration and innovation.
Compensation & Benefits: Salaries are benchmarked via market research. Benefits include comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance, 401K, Paid Time Off, Life Insurance, Disability Insurance, CME Days, and Commuter Benefits.
Work Model: Roles are on-site at specific clinic locations. Training for medical roles is fully paid. The interview process is designed to give candidates a feel for the culture and mission.
Growth Trajectory: With 80+ active job postings and triple-digit growth in hiring, the company is in a high-growth phase, offering significant career development opportunities.

About Neko Health

Company Overview

One-liner: Neko Health is a healthcare technology company that has engineered a proprietary, data-driven preventive health scan to detect early signs of disease in otherwise healthy individuals.
Entity Type: Private (Funding Stage: Series A)
Headquarters: Stockholm, Sweden
Founded: 2018
Founders: Daniel Ek (Co-founder, also founder/CEO of Spotify) and Hjalmar Nilsonne (Co-founder)

Core Business

Primary industry/industries: Healthcare Technology, Preventive Medicine, Clinical Diagnostics
Target customers: B2C – Health-conscious individuals; B2B Potential – Self-insured employers
Mission or purpose statement: “To provide healthcare that’s proactive instead of reactive – so that people can live longer, healthier lives.”

Products & Services

[The Neko Health Scan]: A 60-minute, full-body health check that captures millions of data points across the skin, heart, blood, and circulation using four proprietary devices (Derma, Spectrum, Echo, and Neko Lens). Includes an unrushed consultation with a doctor where results are discussed immediately. The scan is priced at approximately 2750kr (~$260) in Sweden and is designed for asymptomatic, healthy individuals looking for prevention.

Market Standing

Valuation/Market Cap: Not publicly disclosed (as of mid-2026).
Key Metric: Total Funding – $325.1M (one prior funding round).
Notable Investors/Partners: Backed by “investors who have built and scaled some of the most ambitious technology companies of the last two decades” (individual names not publicly listed on career page). The company has strong ties to the tech and startup ecosystem.
Growth Signals: Over 1,000 employees (more than half in clinical roles). Aggressive expansion with active clinic locations in London, Manchester, Birmingham, Stockholm, and plans for more. Job postings have increased +344.4% year-over-year (as of mid-2026), indicating rapid scaling.

Competitive Advantages

Proprietary Hardware: All four scanning devices are designed, engineered, and assembled in-house in Stockholm, creating a hard-to-replicate technological moat.
Integrated Clinical Model: Unlike traditional clinics or digital health apps, Neko combines its proprietary hardware with on-site doctors, clinical researchers, and data science under one roof with a low patient volume per doctor ( ~9 members/day vs. 30+ in standard care). This enables a focus on prevention, not just treatment.
Data Moat: The system captures millions of structured data points per scan, allowing for peer benchmarking and longitudinal tracking over years, creating a powerful, network-effect dataset for preventive health insights.
Leadership: Co-founded by Daniel Ek (Spotify) and Hjalmar Nilsonne.

Strategic Focus

Scaling the Scan Room: Neko is actively testing a second-generation modular scan room platform designed to capture more signals and scale to new locations.
Global Expansion: Opening new clinics across the UK and Europe, with a clear intent to make the service more accessible.
Clinical Research & Governance: Continued focus on validating their devices with clinical studies and building a clinical leadership team (including ex-NHS and Amazon Health executives) to establish preventive care as a formal clinical discipline.

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