About Cerula Care
Cerula Care is the first digital health company focused on providing integrated behavioral health (BH) services to people living with cancer. More than 22M people living with cancer have behavioral health needs such as anxiety, depression, substance use disorder, and PTSD. We integrate with oncology practices and health systems through the Collaborative Care Model (CoCM) to wrap our members with a behavioral health team, care programming, and outcomes analysis.
The Collaborative Care Model is an evidence-based clinical model that has been shown to successfully improve mild to moderate behavioral health needs more effectively than the current standard of care. Our care team enhances the traditional CoCM care team by adding a Health Coach (i.e., a health coach focused on holistic behavioral health), given our strong conviction in the benefit of health coaching and wellness in this population. With the right coaching program customized to our members, we will be able to improve our members’ behavioral health above and beyond traditional CoCM models.
Why Choose Cerula Care
We understand choosing a place to work or consult is a really important decision, and we want you to know that we do not take it lightly on your behalf – we welcome all your questions as you go through the decision process!
A few things to know about working at Cerula Care:
- Our culture is very collaborative, transparent, supportive, and feedback-driven. All of us (yes all of us – including and especially our co-founders) are open to receiving and giving feedback in a helpful way to ensure we each grow and learn every day and importantly are always improving for the sake of our members and each other.
- We have a big mission to accomplish and we want people who believe in that mission to join us. However, in joining our mission, we are not asking you to give up other parts of your life - we all have our lives outside work, and we absolutely respect each other’s needs.
Head of Engineering role
The Head of Engineering will be responsible for overseeing the engineering strategy and roadmap, and building out the engineering and product team while at the same time rolling up their sleeves to build and review code. As a key member of the leadership team, the Head of Engineering will report to the CEO, collaborate with clinical and BD, and drive key KPIs through innovative technology solutions. You will be creating the first behavioral health technology platform for oncology patients - that, hopefully, is something that drives you every day!
Key Responsibilities
Technical Leadership
- Make autonomous architectural decisions aligned with CEO and product leadership
- Lead full-stack development (React, Angular, Python, AWS)
- Ensure HIPAA/SOC2 compliance across all systems
- Work closely with clinical and business teams to drive product innovation
- Build and lead the founding engineering team
Data & EHR Integration
- Design EHR integration patterns and workflows
- Implement and integrate HL7/FHIR standards for health data exchange
- Develop financial analytics pipelines to analyze unit economics
- Build statistical analysis frameworks for business and clinical reporting
End User UI/UX
- Design front end interfaces for internal and customer/client facing tools
- Conversational interface design to integrate with AI toolkits
- Work closely with clinical teams and end users to identify unmet needs and design solutions to meet those needs
AI/ML Architecture
- Design AI-driven systems using CrewAI, LangChain, AWS Bedrock, and other AI toolkits
- Build conversational interfaces and LLM integrations for patient engagement
- Lead AI infrastructure decisions balancing cost, performance, and compliance
Who You Are
- 8+ years of software engineering experience
- Proven EHR integration expertise (HL7/FHIR)
- Track record with healthcare systems
- Cloud infrastructure and security expertise (AWS, HIPAA compliance)
- Deep understanding of business metrics how technology fuels the most important KPIs
- Strong AI/ML framework experience (CrewAI, LangChain, AWS Bedrock, or similar)
Preferred (Nice-to-Have) Skills
- Experience with collaborative care behavioral health technology, including billing
- Hands-on with data pipelines and statistical analysis
- Experience leading cross-functional teams in a startup environment
Work & Compensation Details
- Location: 100% remote (minimal travel required)
- Time Commitment: Full-time
- Start Date: ASAP
- Competitive start-up salary and equity package (potential to move into cofounder equity)
- Benefits: medical, dental and vision insurance, 401(k)
- Paid time off: 10 paid holidays, the week off between Christmas and New Years, competitive PTO policy
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