Director, Software Dev Engineer

As Director of Software Development Engineering, you will lead the engineering organization responsible for building and scaling DeepHealth’s platform and products. You will drive technical strategy, architecture decisions, and engineering excellence across multiple teams, ensuring delivery of high-quality, reliable software that supports our mission in health technology.

Operating as a strategic partner to product, clinical, and business leadership, you will shape the engineering roadmap, cultivate a strong engineering culture, and build scalable systems and teams. You will also recruit, develop, and retain top engineering talent, ensuring strong execution and measurable impact on business outcomes.

Requirements

Engineering Strategy & Technical Leadership

Define and drive the multi-year engineering vision, technical roadmap, and platform strategy aligned with business goals

Lead architecture and design decisions for complex, distributed systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security

Establish engineering standards, processes, and best practices to drive consistency, quality, and operational excellence

Own accountability for engineering delivery, system uptime, and technical debt management across the organization

Product Delivery & Engineering Execution

Partner with Product Management to define and execute the product roadmap, translating business requirements into engineering plans

Drive agile delivery practices across teams, ensuring on-time, high-quality releases that meet regulatory and compliance standards

Collaborate closely with Clinical, Data Science, and Design teams to shape technically sound and patient-centered solutions

Ensure consistency of engineering quality, code review culture, and testing standards across all teams and geographies

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Stakeholder Alignment

Partner with Product, Clinical, and Data Science leaders to align engineering priorities with company strategy and customer needs

Communicate technical concepts and trade-offs clearly to non-technical stakeholders, including executive leadership and the Board

Establish engineering KPIs and OKRs, creating transparency and accountability across the organization

Drive innovation in tooling, automation, and AI/ML adoption to accelerate engineering velocity and product quality

Team Leadership & Organizational Impact

Recruit, retain, and develop world-class engineering talent across multiple disciplines, including backend, frontend, platform, and data engineering. Ensuring alignment with organizational policies and culture.

Define engineering team structure, roles, career ladders, and performance frameworks to support growth and retention

Build scalable engineering onboarding programs and a culture of continuous learning, psychological safety, and inclusive collaboration

Supervise, coach, and evaluate team members to ensure high performance and professional development.

Assign and prioritize workloads, monitor progress, and adjust resources to meet deadlines and objectives.

Set clear goals, conduct regular performance reviews, provide constructive feedback and development plans, and implement improvement plans when needed.

Foster a positive work environment by resolving conflicts proactively, promoting collaboration and accountability across the team, and maintaining clear communication across the team

Innovation & Engineering Culture

Build, lead, and mentor a high-performing engineering organization, fostering a culture of technical excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement

Champion emerging technologies and evaluate build vs. buy decisions to accelerate innovation responsibly

Act as a key member of the executive leadership team, contributing to overall company strategy, culture, and decision-making

Influence senior stakeholders and drive alignment across product, operations, commercial, and clinical functions

PLEASE NOTE: This is not an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and requirements of the position described above. Other functions may be assigned and management retains the right to add or change duties at any time.

Minimum Qualifications, Education and Experience

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field required.

12+ years of software engineering experience, with 5+ years in engineering leadership roles, ideally in SaaS, health tech, or regulated industries

Proven track record of building and scaling distributed software systems and high-performing engineering organizations

Deep expertise in cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure), microservices, APIs, and modern DevOps/CI-CD practices

A strategic thinker who’s equally comfortable diving into code, architecture reviews, and executive-level roadmap conversations

Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present technical topics to non-technical audiences

Strong analytical mindset with experience using engineering metrics, system performance data, and business outcomes to guide decisions

Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment with competing priorities

Excellent program management skills—able to drive multiple engineering initiatives in parallel with clarity and accountability

Experience with tools like GitHub, Jira, PagerDuty, Datadog, or similar engineering productivity and observability platforms

Experience working in HIPAA-compliant environments; familiarity with healthcare data standards (HL7, FHIR) is a plus

Quality Standards

Communicates, cooperates, and consistently functions professionally and harmoniously with all levels of supervision, co-workers, visitors, and vendors.

Demonstrates initiative, personal awareness, professionalism and integrity, and exercises confidentiality in all areas of performance.

Follows all local, regional and country laws concerning employment.

Follows all DeepHealth policies and procedures.

Follows data privacy, compliance, safety and c