Vice President of Engineering - Safely Platform

* CANDIDATES MUST BE LOCATED IN THE UNITED STATES OR CANADA**

Safely You’s passionate mission is to empower safer, more person-centered care across senior living through world-leading AI, industry-changing hardware, and remote expert clinicians, significantly improving outcomes for residents while increasing peace of mind for families and reducing costs for communities.

Originating in 2015 as the doctoral research of CEO George Netscher—and inspired by his own family's experience with Alzheimer's disease—Safely You was spun out of UC Berkeley’s Artificial Intelligence Research Lab, one of the top five AI research groups in the world. And today, our company is solving critical challenges in senior living, from resident falls and ER visits to staffing concerns, length of stay, and NOI.

All helping ensure that communities can focus on improved care for residents while still reaching their financial goals.

Safely You is one of five most innovative fall technologies referenced in the Senate Falls Report (2019), a winner of the McKnight’s Tech Partner of the Year, and has been named to Fortune’s Impact 20 list, which recognizes companies making people’s lives better through innovation.

Safely You is seeking a Vice President of Engineering to lead the end-to-end development of our platform, powering life-safety and AI-enabled solutions across tens of thousands of devices deployed nationwide. This leader will oversee a 30+ person engineering organization spanning Infrastructure
, Mobile, Cloud, and Fleet software
, and will be accountable for delivering highly available, scalable, and secure systems that support mission-critical operations in senior care communities.

The ideal candidate brings deep experience managing large, multidisciplinary engineering teams; a track record of building and operating high-availability platforms; and a passion for developing operational excellence, engineering rigour, and team velocity at scale.

• Collaborate closely with Product, R&D, Operations, and Compliance teams to define roadmap priorities and align engineering execution with company strategy.

• Lead, mentor, and scale a high-performing engineering organization across Mobile, Cloud, QA, Dev Ops, and Fleet Software, while partnering closely with peer teams in AI and Hardware.

• Establish clear roles, responsibilities, and career paths to foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and technical excellence.

• Own the execution and delivery of Safely You’s platform, with a focus on engineering team effectiveness, capacity planning, and predictable, on-time delivery in the short to medium term.

• Partner closely with the CTO, who owns the technical vision and long-term architectural direction, to ensure execution aligns with the company’s broader technical strategy.

• Own the architecture, development, and delivery of Safely You’s platform, spanning:

  • Cloud services powering fall detection, alerting, data pipelines, analytics, and integrations

  • Mobile applications supporting caregivers and operators

  • Fleet software deployed across tens of thousands of smart edge devices

  • Cloud Infrastructure
    , supporting our distributed systems and high availability

• Ensure systems are designed for high availability, reliability, scalability, and security
  , supporting life-safety workloads with defined SLAs.

• Drive innovation in system architecture, infrastructure automation, and service designs to support the future growth of the Safely You product suite.

• Build and enforce engineering best practices, including code quality, CI/CD pipelines, observability, incident management, risk mitigation, and root-cause analysis.

• Implement and refine Agile development methodologies that improve predictability, throughput, and cross-team alignment.

• Establish robust frameworks for measuring engineering performance and velocity (e.g., DORA metrics, sprint predictability, defect rates, throughput).

• Oversee the design and operation of production systems with 24/7 uptime requirements.

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