Senior Engineering Manager

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Kaia is a mission-focused health technology company.


Our story began in 2016, when our founders Konstantin Mehl and Manuel Thurner, set out on a mission to bring affordable and accessible relief to millions of people with chronic conditions. No strangers to chronic pain themselves, they decided to innovate ways to remove the obstacles many people experience in getting the leading-edge care they need in order to live their best lives.


How do Kaia apps work? Kaia uses a dynamic AI-powered algorithm. Our programs are based on multimodal rehabilitation, a holistic approach to managing chronic conditions. Our users have easy access via smartphone and tablet to our programs for back/hip/knee pain and COPD using this evidence-based approach.


Five years into our story, we are a leader in digital therapeutics, with 500,000+ users worldwide. Having raised $125 million from investors such as Optum Ventures, idInvest, and Balderton Capital. We are poised to create a global footprint in digital self-care; Kaia is patient empowerment made easy.


The regulatory landscape is quickly adapting to the digital ecosystem. Therefore, our mission and strategy bring new opportunities for exceptional talent to join our journey. With over 150 “Kaianeers” spread across the globe, we need now, more than ever, specialized talent to help take our mission further.


This role will lead the Motion Coach and Biomarker Platform Squad and report to the CTO.

About the role

  • You will lead our “Motion Coach & Biomarkers” squad - a cross-functional product platform team that builds our market-leading motion tracking capabilities (measuring movement health + providing feedback on exercise form like a physical therapist would do). The work that the team is doing has high strategic priority, impact, and visibility.
  • You will act as the direct manager of all engineers in your team across mobile, backend, etc. (10+ engineers). You will hold regular 1:1s, provide meaningful feedback and help set goals to facilitate personal & professional growth. 
  • Translate product and business vision & strategy into your team. Based on this, set architecture direction for your team and articulate outward-looking technology strategy
  • Partner closely with Product & UX. Together work on OKRs, roadmap, and embrace lean & agile product development practices and data-driven decision making.
  • Lead your team to operational excellence and keep yourself and the team accountable for outputs and outcomes.
  • Apply pragmatic solutions, find the right tradeoffs and seek to reduce complexity to help teams deliver on the organization's goals.
  • Actively participate in discovery & contribute conceptually to the product together with the PM, designers, data analysts, engineers, and Kaia’s medical team.
  • Create a healthy culture of collaboration & inclusion and lead by example.
  • Hire and retain top talent.

Desired Profile

  • Experienced, hands-on engineering leader with a track record of successfully leading fast-paced, cross-functional, product-focused teams to impactful outcomes.
  • A thoughtful people leader who can recruit, inspire, develop, and retain a high performing team including specialized, senior roles. 
  • Pragmatic & creative technologist with a wide range of interests and a builder mentality, continuously creating new ways to improve products and systems. 
  • Understands the basics of machine learning and computer vision on a first-principle level
  • Experience shipping mobile experiences
  • Solid product judgement and can easily cross organizational and functional borders to create alignment and solve problems.
  • Strong domain modeling skills, architecture skills, and are able to base engineering decisions on product vision. 
  • Has a clear picture in mind of what great looks like (in terms of team composition, code quality, processes, etc.) and can progressively develop the team towards that.
  • A good listener and are ability to speak and write succinctly and clearly

Some of the benefits of being a Kaianeer:


You can directly influence the future of digital health in a team of industry experts and digital shapers.


You will work alongside serial entrepreneurs (previously founded and scaled another startup, Foodora).


You’ll enjoy accessible leaders, a hybrid (home/office) or remote work environment, and flexible vacation and working times.


We support your professional development and have a budget and PTO set aside for you just for that! 

Happy hours, team events, and knowledge-sharing sessions.


Join us if you’re looking for an entrepreneurial adventure and an exciting place to grow personally and professionally.

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