Head of Development
Reporting to the CTO and collaborating closely with cross-functional leaders, you will oversee the day-to-day operations of the engineering team—ensuring high performance, strong alignment, and delivery of meaningful product value. You'll combine hands-on technical involvement with strategic oversight, contributing to product decisions and guiding the evolution of our architectural vision.
Key Responsibilities
- Translate high-level company objectives into clear weekly and monthly engineering plans, defining project scopes and deliverables across product, science, medical, and regulatory domains.
- Drive consistent delivery of high-quality solutions that raise the bar for our products and engineering standards.
- Continuously evaluate and improve engineering processes, identifying opportunities to increase efficiency, strengthen collaboration, and reduce time-to-market.
- Foster alignment between Engineering and AI/Science teams, playing a key role in developing our first Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) product and applying your domain expertise to ensure compliance and excellence.
- Mentor, coach, and empower engineers to do their best work; promote a positive, resilient, and growth-oriented team culture.
- Embrace change and maintain a proactive, solutions-oriented mindset while navigating a fast-moving environment.
- Promoting and advocating for technical best practices
Essential Skills & Experience
- 5+ years of professional software development experience.
- Proven experience leading and managing engineering teams.
- Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional communication skills.
- Expert-level JavaScript skills (Node.js or React), ideally with TypeScript experience.
- Proficiency in designing, building, and maintaining RESTful APIs.
- Experience working with both SQL and NoSQL databases.
- Knowledge of microservices architectures and distributed system patterns.
- Cloud experience (AWS or GCP) and familiarity with modern infrastructure tooling.
- Strong capability in debugging, maintaining, and improving existing software systems.
- Healthcare technology experience, including working with standards such as FHIR, HL7, EHRs, or LIMS.
- Understanding of Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) principles and regulatory context.
- Startup experience and a positive, adaptable mindset—comfortable with change, pace, and ambiguity.
Company Benefits
- Take what you need time off
- Setup for remote working
- Macbook pro 14"
- Private health insurance
- Pension or 401k contribution
- Equity in the company
- Competitive salary
Interview Process
- 20 min initial call with CTO
- 60 min technical interview with team
- 30 min cultural interview
- Meet in person