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<p><strong>ABOUT THE ROLE</strong></p><p><strong>Location:</strong> Remote in US or Canada</p><p>At Jona, we’re transforming how clinicians and consumers understand and optimize their gut microbiome. Our AI-powered platform decodes complex microbiome data and translates it into actionable insights—supporting better outcomes, stronger immunity, and longer health spans.</p><p>We’re looking for a player-coach, hands-on Head of Engineering to help us scale our core product. You’ll lead a small, high-performing team while staying close to the code—shipping features, shaping architecture, and bringing AI-powered capabilities into production.</p><p>This is a high-impact role: you’ll influence product direction, define how we build, and help turn ideas into real, user-facing systems fast.</p><hr><p><strong>ROLE OUTLINE</strong></p><ul><li><p><strong>Experience going from 0 to 1</strong>: Own projects end-to-end, from ideation to delivery</p></li><li><p><strong>Architect systems</strong>: Design scalable backends, frontends, and AI-powered applications</p></li><li><p><strong>Build AI into the product</strong>: Integrate and operationalize ML models into various aspects of our product stack</p></li><li><p><strong>Establish MLOps foundations</strong>: Drive infrastructure for Model training, deployment and monitoring</p></li><li><p><strong>Collaborate tightly</strong>: Work directly with product, design, and data to move fast</p></li><li><p><strong>Raise the bar</strong>: Improve code quality, CI/CD, developer experience, and reliability</p></li><li><p><strong>Manage and mentor</strong>: Build, support, unblock, and grow a small team of engineers</p></li><li><p><strong>Culture:</strong> Nurture a high-performance and agile engineering culture</p></li></ul><hr><p><strong>WHAT YOU’LL BRING</strong></p><ul><li><p>10+ years of software development experience</p></li><li><p>3+ years of building and shipping modern AI-enabled web applications or platforms in production</p></li><li><p>Experience leading small engineering teams and mentoring engineers while remaining highly hands-on</p></li><li><p>Strong full-stack skills (TypeScript, React, Node.js)</p></li><li><p>Experience designing scalable APIs and working with production databases, especially PostgreSQL and other SQL systems</p></li><li><p>Experience with Docker/containers</p></li><li><p>Experience with Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code experience</p></li><li><p>Solid experience with AWS and owning cloud/platform maturity</p></li><li><p>3+ years of experience deploying and operating ML/AI systems in production</p></li><li><p>Strong familiarity with MLOps practices, including model lifecycle management, monitoring, deployment, and data/model pipelines</p></li><li><p>Comfortable owning ambiguous problems and moving quickly</p></li><li><p>Strong product instincts—you care about what gets built, not just how</p></li><li><p>Exposure to regulated environments (e.g., healthcare/HIPAA)</p></li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>PREFERENCES</strong></p><ul><li><p>Experience in health-tech and can communicate well with science/clinical stakeholders</p></li><li><p>Experience in healthcare or a regulated data background is preferred</p></li><li><p>Experience interviewing and helping hire strong engineers is preferred; experience building a small team is a plus</p></li><li><p>Experience with Kubernetes</p></li><li><p>Familiarity with NoSQL/vector/search stores is a plus</p></li></ul><hr><p><strong>WHY JOIN JONA</strong></p><ul><li><p><strong>Own meaningful problems</strong>: Your work will directly shape the product and user experience</p></li><li><p><strong>Build with AI at the core</strong>: Not a side project—this is central to what we do</p></li><li><p><strong>Small team, big impact</strong>: Your decisions matter immediately</p></li><li><p><strong>Move fast</strong>: Minimal bureaucracy, high trust, real ownership</p></li><li><p><strong>Full Benefits:</strong></p><ul><li><p><strong>Medical, Dental & Vision:</strong> Competitive medical, dental, vision insurance for employees and dependents. This includes medical, dental, and vision premiums as well as a company contributed HSA/FSA.</p></li><li><p><strong>Retirement Matching:</strong> Jona has a 401k plan that offers company matching for dollars you contribute.</p></li><li><p>Jona’s vacation policy is to take vacation. We operate on a Freedom and Responsibility model of unlimited PTO.</p></li><li><p><strong>Equity:</strong> We offer meaningful equity ownership, allowing team members to share directly in the long-term success of Jona.</p></li></ul></li></ul><hr><p><strong>COMPENSATION & BENEFITS</strong></p><ul><li><p>Salary range: $225-270K</p></li><li><p>Equity<br></p></li></ul>

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