Superpower
Head of Engineering
San Francisco · On-site · Director · Full-time · Posted Oct 3, 2025
- Experience
- The posting does not specify a number of years; it asks for experience spanning 0→1 and 1→100 at a high-growth consumer company.
- Visa sponsorship
- Offers visa sponsorship and can support relocation to the United States for the right candidates.
About the job
Lead and scale Superpower’s engineering organization, translating product priorities into fast, reliable execution while remaining technically involved.
What you'll do
- Set engineering culture and architecture decisions, balancing speed, scalability, and reliability.
- Partner with the CTO, founders, product, and design to scope, prioritize, and ship product work; remove bottlenecks and accelerate delivery.
- Hire, mentor, and develop engineers and future leaders.
What they ask for
- Experience building and scaling consumer-facing apps.
- Startup leadership experience spanning 0→1 and 1→100 at a high-growth consumer company.
- Engineering leadership experience scaling beyond the founding team while maintaining velocity.
- Strong coding background; able to review code and make architecture decisions.
Nice to have
- Former startup CTO or founder.
- Deeply product-minded technical leader who understands product and engineering tradeoffs.
AI focus
The company is building an AI doctor, but the posting does not specify AI work for this role.
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