ABOUT THE ROLE

At Jona, we’re transforming how clinicians and consumers understand and optimize their gut microbiome. Our AI-powered platform decodes complex microbiome data and translates it into actionable insights—supporting better outcomes, stronger immunity and longer healthspans.

We’re looking for a player-coach hands-on Head of Engineering to help us scale our core product. You’ll lead a small, high-performing team while staying close to the code—shipping features, shaping architecture, and bringing AI-powered capabilities into production.

This is a high-impact role: you’ll influence product direction, define how we build, and help turn ideas into real, user-facing systems fast.

ROLE OUTLINE

• Experience going from 0 to 1: Own projects end-to-end, from ideation to delivery
• Architect systems: Design scalable backends, frontend, and AI-powered applications
• Build AI into the product: Integrate and operationalize ML models into various aspects of our product stack
• Establish MLOps foundations: Drive infrastructure for Model training, deployment and monitoringCollaborate tightly: Work directly with product, design, and data to move fast
• Raise the bar: Improve code quality, CI/CD, developer experience, and reliability
• Manage and mentor: Build, support, unblock, and grow a small team of engineers
• Culture: Nurture a high-performance and agile engineering culture

WHAT YOU’LL BRING

• 10+ years building and shipping modern AI-enabled web applications