--- title: 'Head of Engineering at WellTheory' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/head-of-engineering-welltheory-united-states-wda1f5s5cbm0' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-30' --- # Head of Engineering at WellTheory - **Company:** WellTheory - **Location:** United States - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-10-23 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-30 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/welltheory/17b3bc2c-a70f-4823-9c27-69c6486a9cb2 ## Job description ## About WellTheory WellTheory is a digital health company helping people with autoimmune conditions take control of their health through personalized care, nutrition guidance, and ongoing coaching. We're a team of 60+ passionate people who care deeply about helping our members reduce symptoms, feel better, and live fuller lives — while helping employers and payors reduce their spend. ## About the Role WellTheory is hiring its first Head of Engineering. You’ll lead a talented, largely self-directed team and set how we build: our process, our quality bar, our technical direction, and who we hire. This is a player-coach role; Expect to spend 20-30% of your time in the codebase and the rest leading the team, shaping the platform, and partnering with product, design, and leadership. You’ll report to our Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer. We’re a Series A company operating like a much bigger one. We build the member app, in-house tools for our Care Team, and the insurance and data infrastructure that connects us to employers, health plans, and channel partners, all with HIPAA and SOC 2 Type 2 in mind. We’re looking for a leader who has seen scale before, knows what to build now so we don’t have to rebuild later, and can empower experienced, high-achieving engineers. ## What You'll Do - Build and grow the team. Run 1:1s, set a high bar, and own hiring, performance, and career growth. - Define how we ship. Design planning, code review, testing, release, and incident practices that are fast enough for a small AI-native team and rigorous enough for compliance. - Set technical direction. Make the foundational architecture calls with our founding engineer, so velocity holds as we scale the team and member base. - Own platform and DevOps. Set the roadmap, including non-prod environments that keep PHI out of day-to-day development. - Build compliance in, not on. Work with ops and compliance leads on the engineering side of HIPAA, SOC 2, and HITRUST. - Make AI core to how we build. Roll out coding agents, evals, and internal tooling that multiply every engineer’s impact. - Stay hands-on. Review code, pair on the hard problems, and ship when it’s the highest-leverage use of your time. - Shape the roadmap. Partner with our Staff PM and Product Design Lead on scope and tradeoffs. - Speak for engineering. Represent the team at the leadership table. You Might Be a Great Fit If You... - Have led engineering teams through growth. You’ve managed senior ICs, built teams, and know what breaks at each stage and what to fix first. - Have built in a regulated environment. Healthcare, fintech, or another industry where data handling, security, and audits shape how you build. You treat compliance as table stakes, not a blocker. - Spot great talent. You can tell great from good in an interview or code review, and you hire for potential. - Stay hands-on. You’ve shipped production TypeScript or JavaScript recently and want to keep doing it. - Own systems. Reliability, observability, environments, and incident response are yours, not delegated. - Change how a team works with AI. You know how to help teams create leverage without also creating AI slop. - Partner without ego. You share ownership with strong product, design, and engineering leads and empower the team already in place. - Have partnered closely with product and design. You've worked in a model where engineering, product, and design shape the roadmap together, and you know what a healthy day-to-day partnership looks like. - Communicate clearly. We’re small and fully remote, so you write things down and document decisions. This position requires current work authorization in the United States. We are unable to provide visa sponsorship at this time. This role is US-based and requires access to protected health information. Bonus Points - You've worked in digital health or B2B2C healthcare and understand eligibility, claims, or care delivery tooling - You've led a SOC 2 or HITRUST effort from the engineering side - You've been called a "force of nature" and have done something most people wouldn't: run a marathon, started a company, earned a degree while working full-time, or overcome significant adversity ## What We Offer - A team that genuinely cares about each other and the members we serve - A fully remote company that gathers every year for an annual retreat For your safety: Please remember that WellTheory will only contact you from a @[welltheory.com](http://welltheory.com) email address. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Our recruiting team will never ask for money, fees, or banking information as part of our hiring process. If you're ever unsure, don't click any links and apply directly to a posted role on our career site. For your safety: Please remember that WellTheory will only contact you from a @[welltheory.com](http://welltheory.com) email address. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Our recruiting team will never ask for money, fees, or banking information as part of our hiring process. If you're ever unsure, don't click any links and apply directly to a posted role on our career site. -- At WellTheory, we're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic team — so if you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't check every box, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might be exactly who we're looking for. WellTheory is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. If you require accommodations at any stage of our hiring process, please reach out to our hiring team. We're happy to work with you. ## About WellTheory ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: WellTheory is a virtual care platform that provides evidence-based, whole-person nutrition and lifestyle coaching to help people with autoimmune and inflammatory conditions reduce symptoms and improve quality of life. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series A) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States (also listed as Atherton, California) - **Founded**: 2021 - **Founders**: Ellen Rudolph (CEO & Co-Founder), Claire Rudolph (Co-Founder, Head of Product), Wallace Torres (Co-Founder, Ops) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Digital health / Virtual care for autoimmune disease - **Target customers**: B2B (employers, health plans, public sector pools like SISC) and B2C (individuals with autoimmune conditions) - **Mission or purpose**: Reverse the autoimmune epidemic by filling gaps in traditional healthcare with a research-backed, whole-person care model that addresses root causes and treats the whole person. ## Products & Services - **One-on-one Membership**: Personalized care plan with a dedicated team including a registered dietitian, board-certified health coach, and membership coordinator. Includes live coaching calls, unlimited messaging, advanced lab testing, and community events. Designed to address nutrition, sleep, stress, movement, and connection. - **For Businesses (Employer/Health Plan Program)**: A turnkey autoimmune care benefit that reduces specialty medication costs and improves member outcomes. Includes claims analysis, program rollout, and independent actuarial validation of ROI. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed - **Key Metric**: Total Funding – $26.32M (as of Series A, Nov 2025); Annual Revenue – $1M (LinkedIn estimate) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: General Catalyst (lead of Series A), Accel, BOX GROUP, 7wire Ventures, Ingeborg, UnitedHealthcare Accelerator (non-equity assistance). Key partner: Self-Insured Schools of California (SISC) – expanded partnership in April 2026 covering hundreds of thousands of public school employees. - **Growth Signals**: 83.3% year-over-year headcount growth (51 employees as of mid-2026); 100% of pilot members reported significant improvement in at least one major autoimmune area; independent actuarial validation showed reduction in specialty drug costs and risk scores. ## Competitive Advantages - **Built by autoimmune patients, for autoimmune patients** – care team members share lived experience, increasing empathy and relatability. - **Whole-person, root-cause approach** – goes beyond symptom masking with advanced testing, nutrition, and lifestyle interventions. - **Validated outcomes** – clinical improvements (energy, quality of life, depression, anxiety) and financial ROI (lower specialty drug spend) proven in independent pilot with SISC. ## Strategic Focus - **Expand employer and health plan partnerships** – especially in large public-sector organizations and self-insured pools where autoimmune prevalence and costs are high. - **Deepen AI integration** – actively hiring a Head of AI Transformation to leverage AI in personalizing care and scaling impact. - **Continue clinical validation** – building evidence base to differentiate from traditional care and symptom-masking approaches. ## Why Work Here - **Mission-driven culture** – opportunity to directly impact the lives of 50M+ Americans with autoimmune disease. - **High-growth environment** – 83% yearly headcount growth, recent Series A funding, and expanding enterprise partnerships signal strong momentum. - **Remote-friendly** – team distributed across US (majority), South Africa, and North Macedonia; flexible work likely. - **Ownership and impact** – as a startup, employees can shape product, care protocols, and company direction. - **Current open roles** (as of mid-2026): Head of AI Transformation, Exec Ops for CEO, Registered Dietitian – reflecting priorities in AI, executive operations, and clinical care. ## Sources 1. [welltheory.com](https://www.welltheory.com/) – Official website with product details, outcomes, and business offering. 2. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/welltheory) – Funding history, headquarters, investors, competitors, and news (SISC partnership). 3. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/welltheory) – Employee count, headcount growth, revenue estimate, open roles, and talent insights. 4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/welltheory) – Current job postings and careers page. 5. [theorg.com](https://theorg.com/org/welltheory) – Founders and leadership details. ## Other roles at WellTheory - [Clinical Research Scientist](https://feeny.ai/job/clinical-research-scientist-welltheory-united-states-ns217d7p5wm7) — United States - [People Ops Generalist](https://feeny.ai/job/people-ops-generalist-welltheory-united-states-b8hhr39q39gw) — United States - [Full Stack Engineer, Support](https://feeny.ai/job/full-stack-engineer-support-welltheory-united-states-4m7qbg39mnbj) — United States - [Member Support Specialist](https://feeny.ai/job/member-support-specialist-welltheory-united-states-12vccj64aac9) — United States - [Head of Commercial](https://feeny.ai/job/head-of-commercial-welltheory-united-states-6getywwcpape) — United States - [Sales Ops Lead](https://feeny.ai/job/sales-ops-lead-welltheory-united-states-6jc7g71fm9z5) — United States - [Alliances Manager](https://feeny.ai/job/alliances-manager-welltheory-united-states-5je75vtbpbms) — United States - [Channel Partnerships Manager](https://feeny.ai/job/channel-partnerships-manager-welltheory-united-states-jfxkrhvkb9bx) — United States - [Workforce Strategy & Planning Lead](https://feeny.ai/job/workforce-strategy-planning-lead-welltheory-united-states-s76gcvkwdjy2) — United States - [RVP of Employer Sales](https://feeny.ai/job/rvp-of-employer-sales-welltheory-united-states-ek12ah9c0pqw) — United States