Director of Engineering

ABOUT OOVA

At Oova, we’re transforming women’s health through personalized, data-driven care. Our patented at-home urine testing kits provide real-time, lab-quality hormone insights—empowering women to understand their bodies and take control of their hormonal health.

Whether navigating fertility, perimenopause, menopause, or other hormone-related challenges, over 10,000 women have trusted Oova’s AI-powered platform for personalized guidance and confident decision-making.

Leading clinicians at institutions like Massachusetts General Hospital, Jefferson Health, and US Fertility partner with Oova to seamlessly track their patients’ hormonal trends and receive AI-driven treatment recommendations—enabling more precise, responsive care.

WHY OOVA

Oova is redefining the future of hormone health—starting with fertility and expanding across the full spectrum of women’s hormonal journeys. We’re at a pivotal moment in our growth, and there’s never been a more exciting time to join our team. Here’s why:

  • Explosive Market Opportunity: The global fertility technology market is projected to exceed $45 billion by 2027, while the at-home diagnostics and digital health markets are expected to reach $7 billion and $551 billion, respectively. Additionally, the menopause testing market is anticipated to surpass $800 million by 2027.
  • Backed by Leading Investors: We’re funded by top-tier investors including Connecticut Innovations, BBG Ventures, Company Ventures, Samsung and Spero Ventures giving us the strategic and financial support to scale quickly and thoughtfully.
  • Cutting-Edge Technology, Ready to Scale: Our industry-leading, patent-pending testing platform has transitioned to scalable manufacturing, and we’re ready to ramp up commercialization. Clinicians now have real-time access to precise hormone data through our HIPAA-compliant dashboard, enabling more proactive, personalized care.
  • Best-in-Class Platform: Our comprehensive solution delivers capabilities beyond our competitors, combining AI-powered insights, clinician dashboards, and real-time lab-quality diagnostics—all in the comfort of home.
  • Impact: At Oova, you’ll be part of a passionate, mission-driven team working to improve health outcomes for women everywhere. We’re not just building technology—we’re empowering women with better insights, better care, and ultimately, better lives.

THE ROLE

This is a key leadership hire. Reporting to the CEO, you will combine strategic technical ownership with hands-on execution. You will set the long-term technical vision while staying close to the work, ensuring that engineering moves quickly, maintains high standards, and scales effectively as the company grows.

You will guide the technical direction, architecture, and delivery across our entire product ecosystem, including our consumer-facing mobile apps, backend services, clinician dashboards, internal tools, and the areas where hardware and software intersect. You should also be highly comfortable navigating data integrations, since interoperability with partner systems will increasingly become a core requirement for our clinical and commercial growth. AI is an important part of how we build and operate, and you should feel comfortable using AI-supported tools and workflows to improve velocity, problem solving, and overall engineering leverage.

You will manage and mentor a tight-knit engineering team, including offshore engineers in Europe, and help shape the future structure of the organization as we grow. You will work closely with product, operations, and marketing partners to translate needs into clear engineering plans and maintain predictable execution. A key part of your role will be ensuring quality at every stage of development, including establishing strong QA practices so that everything we ship is reliable and consistently reflects real user needs.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys leading at multiple levels, who values clarity, accountability, and thoughtful architecture, and who wants to leave a meaningful mark on both the product and the engineering culture. You will have end-to-end ownership of engineering execution, architectural direction, and team practices. You will work in close partnership with product and operations, but will be the final owner of technical decisions, engineering quality, timelines, and system design.

We are open to either full-time or fractional-to-full-time structures for exceptional candidates. The scope and expectations remain the same: strong technical leadership, hands-on execution, and the ability to guide the team through this next phase.

WHAT YOU'LL DO 

  • Own the technical vision and ensure the architecture scales with business needs.
  • Lead development across mobile, backend, data, integrations, and internal tools.
  • Build and maintain clear processes for planning, QA, release management, and documentation.
  • Manage and mentor a distributed engineering team, including offshore engineers in Europe.
  • Collaborate with product, operations, and marketing to deliver reliable user-centered experiences.
  • Leverage AI-enabled tools to increase development speed, efficiency, and team leverage.

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

  • Strong technical foundation. You have deep experience building and maintaining production systems and are comfortable working across mobile, backend, cloud, data, or integrations.
  • Systems thinking. You can understand how pieces fit together, anticipate downstream impacts, and design solutions that scale.
  • Meaningful experience and emerging or established leadership. Meaningful experience and emerging or established leadership. You bring 8-10+ years of engineering experience and have led projects or mentored others. As a small-team Director, you must be a hands-on leader who is comfortable contributing code, shaping architecture, and supporting execution.
  • Comfort with distributed teams. You communicate clearly, manage expectations well, and collaborate effectively across time zones.
  • Familiarity with AI-enabled development. You use AI tools to boost development speed, improve problem solving, and expand your individual leverage.
  • Experience with APIs and integrations. You understand how to work with external systems and build reliable, maintainable interfaces.
  • Commitment to quality. You value testing, clear acceptance criteria, and clean releases, and you take pride in shipping stable products.
  • Collaborative mindset. You work well with product, operations, and marketing partners and can translate goals into actionable technical work.
  • Exposure to consumer mobile products. You appreciate the performance and user experience considerations that come with mobile apps.
  • Clear communicator. You share context, raise risks early, and help create alignment across teams.
  • Adaptability. You thrive in environments where documentation, processes, and systems are improving and where foundational decisions have long-term impact.
  • Nice-to-Have
  • Experience in healthtech or working with regulated data environments.
  • Familiarity with image processing or computer vision concepts.
  • Experience working with hardware–software interactions, including calibration workflows, sensor-driven data, or physical components that influence digital experiences.

PERKS

  • A venture-backed startup with a fully committed founder who is passionate about the vision
  • Competitive compensation ($150k–$200k) plus equity and benefits.
    • Unlimited vacation policy
    • Health, dental and vision coverage
    • Commuter benefits

COMPANY CULTURE

Shifting the landscape of technology doesn’t happen on its own. It happens via the continuous and well-defined rigor of people who have a shared passion and who are dedicated to working toward a common goal. We are looking for exceptional people to join our rapidly growing startup and positively impact our company culture and product. We strongly appreciate positivity, curiosity, and, above all else, the ability to nail things down. We are incredibly conscious of creating a comfortable, flexible environment that cultivates the desire to be engaged, ask questions, and feel a vested interest in our team's success. Most importantly, you should value honest and direct communication as you recognize that this is the best way for any individual or team to continuously learn and grow. Accomplishing our collective goals will be fun but also complex; you should pursue an ongoing and rewarding challenge!

WHAT IT’S LIKE TO WORK WITH US

We’re passionate about the technology we’ve created and know that we are revolutionizing healthcare. The products you help us create will impact a person’s ability to understand what it means to be healthy and provide them with the tools they need to make educated choices about how they move forward. Our pursuit is altruistic, but that does not mean we live unbalanced lives. We have families and passions outside of work, and we know that the best work comes from sharp, rested people. We respect each other and each of our contributions, and we believe that the best solutions will come from diverse ideas and perspectives. You’re joining a family.

START DATE

ASAP

HOW TO APPLY

Send your resume as a PDF attachment and a short note about why you’d be a good fit to Careers@oova.life. Use the subject line: Director of Engineering Application.

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