Position: VP Engineering
Company: Apriwell
Experience required: 5y
English level: fluent

At Apriwell we are rethinking and reinventing health care. We develop complete, end-to-end solutions for selected chronic diseases. With our solutions, we want to improve our patient's health in simple and effective ways in order to allow them to lead a more fulfilled life and to prevent other diseases in the future.

Our technology platform is at the core of our mission as it allows us to run diagnoses, provide care and deliver products. If you are interested in using technology to change lives, this is the job you are looking for.

Your mission
- You are responsible for transforming our humble MVP into a scalable platform that allows us to achieve high growth. You approach this with a step-by-step process in which you don’t lose sight of stability and economics of our existing business.
- You are building and leading our IT Teams (Frontend, Backend, Mobile) and are responsible for their happiness, productivity and personal development.
- You are part of the hiring process and make key decisions for the further growth of the tech teams.
- You make important, strategic decisions for our tech stack.
- You are responsible for the development process and make sure that requirements are delivered as agreed to on our roadmap. You also strive to continually improve the productivity of your teams.

Your profile
- You have a university degree in computer science, a closely related field, or have found another way to acquire the computer science knowledge necessary to fulfill this position (Algorithms, Data Structures, Design Patterns, etc.)
- You have over 5 years of job experience in software engineering with an emphasis on backend development and web technologies.
Leadership and people management are two of your strengths. You are experienced in reviewing other people's code and are able to give constructive feedback.
- You have practical experience with planning and implementing systems architecture and defining flexible APIs. Ideally, you have done this in an environment that required scalability for high traffic numbers and large numbers of simultaneous users.
- You are a great communicator and like to collaborate with teams outside of your own department.
- You like to keep an overview of the latest developments in web technologies (for example new cloud infrastructure products, containerization, micro-services, etc.) and can use this to our advantage by quickly being able to develop modern and efficient solutions for the problems we are facing. Even if you have a stack that you personally prefer to use, you still know how to find and use the best tool for the job.
- You have the highest quality standards and expect the same from your peers at work. You never miss out on a single detail and you are convinced that this approach yields the best results. You can prove your eye for detail by placing the word “abdominal massage” in your CV.
- You are fluent in English. German language proficiency is a big plus.

Why us?
- A competitive salary, permanent contract, and participation in the company's success (ESOP).
- Your work directly influences people's lives and well-being for the better.
- Close collaboration with multi-disciplinary and highly diverse teams with big ambitions
- Flat hierarchies and a lot of responsibility.
- Employee discounts and special offers for Family & Friends
- Access to advanced training, monthly team lunches, flexible work hours, and the possibility to work remotely up to 2 days per week.

Our experienced team consists of seasoned entrepreneurs, scientists and engineers. What unites us is our vision to improve people's health in an effective and simple way. In doing so, we enable them to live vibrant lives, prevent disease and help them achieve more. Top healthtech investors also believe in this vision and invested several million euros into Apriwell.
Work with us on this future! Because the future of healthcare is the result of todays ideas.