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 or willing to relocate and must be willing to do occasional in‑office days. All applicants must be authorized to work in the US without sponsorship.

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 Dev Ops 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.

• 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 tool chains 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).

• 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.
• 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…