About the role

ABOUT MEDICIRCLE MediCircle is building the national infrastructure to make prescription drugs affordable. Today, billions of dollars of perfectly usable medications go unused, while patients are forced to skip or abandon life-saving treatments due to cost. We exist to change that. MediCircle reclaims unused medications, recertifies their quality using our patented process, and redistributes them through our licensed pharmacy. In doing so, we provide patients with medications at zero out-of-pocket cost, while generating savings for our payer, plan sponsor, and value-based care clients. We are a VC-backed, early-stage healthcare technology company with a proven model and accelerating growth: - $65M+ in medications reclaimed to date - Active partnerships with market-leading customers, including national VBCs, PBMs, and regional health systems - Rapidly expanding demand across enterprise and government channels If our mission resonates with you, you are interested in joining a high-growth healthcare company, and you are energized by directly impacting the lives of millions of patients who can no longer access or afford their medications, we would love to hear from you. ROLE OVERVIEW You will partner side by side with MediCircle’s Head of Technology to architect and scale the technical foundation that powers MediCircle's national medication redistribution platform. As MediCircle’s Vice President of Engineering, you will own engineering strategy, organizational design, talent, execution, and technical operations. You will partner with the Head of Technology, founders, and executive team to translate the company’s vision and growth objectives into a long-term technology strategy and a disciplined, scalable engineering roadmap. You will inherit an early technical foundation and lead its evolution into an enterprise-grade platform capable of supporting increasingly complex pharmacy operations, patient workflows, customer integrations, and regulatory requirements. You will ensure that MediCircle’s technology remains reliable, secure, adaptable, and capable of operating nationally as dispensing volume, customer complexity, and organizational demands grow. This role extends beyond managing software delivery. You will partner with MediCircle's Head of Technology to design the engineering organization MediCircle needs for its next stage, recruit and develop exceptional leaders and engineers, define how the technology team operates, establish measurable standards for performance and reliability, and make thoughtful decisions about architecture, infrastructure, security, AI, internal tooling, and technical investment. The ideal candidate has previously scaled an engineering organization and a mission-critical technology platform through a significant period of growth. You are an executive leader with deep technical credibility, strong business judgment, and a track record of recruiting and managing high-performing teams that move quickly without compromising quality, security, or reliability. RESPONSIBILITIES - Own engineering strategy: Develop and execute a multi-year engineering strategy aligned with MediCircle’s business model, product roadmap, customer commitments, regulatory obligations, and national expansion. - Build the engineering organization: Design the organizational structure, leadership model, hiring plan, career framework, and operating practices required to scale the engineering function. - Lead and develop engineering talent: Recruit, manage, and develop engineering leaders and senior technical talent. Establish a culture of high ownership, clear accountability, thoughtful decision-making, and continuous improvement. - Own engineering delivery: Establish transparent planning, prioritization, and delivery processes. Ensure engineering resources are aligned with the company’s highest-impact opportunities and commitments. - Guide platform architecture: Oversee the evolution of MediCircle’s appli