Director of Engineering

Location: Cambridge, MA (Hybrid, 4 days onsite)

Compensation: $250,000 to $270,000 base + 20% bonus + equity

About the Company

They are a venture-backed technology company operating at the intersection of healthcare, machine learning, and real-world data. Their mission is to improve how complex diseases are detected, monitored, and understood through innovative technology and data-driven insights. Having secured significant early-stage funding, they are now scaling their platform, team, and engineering capabilities. This is a rare opportunity to join at a formative stage and directly influence the company's technical foundations, culture, and long-term success.

About the Role

As Director of Engineering, you will combine hands-on technical leadership with people management and delivery ownership. Working closely with senior leadership, Product, and Engineering teams, you will help create the processes, systems, and culture needed to support continued growth.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing engineering team
• Manage engineering delivery, sprint planning, backlog prioritisation, and execution
• Partner with Product and technical stakeholders to deliver scalable solutions
• Contribute directly to production code and complex engineering initiatives
• Architect and evolve backend systems, cloud infrastructure, and application platforms
• Establish best practices across CI/CD, testing, observability, and engineering operations
• Drive engineering standards, technical quality, and continuous improvement
• Support hiring, team growth, and organisational scaling initiatives
• Champion pragmatic adoption of AI-assisted development workflows
• Help build a collaborative and high-performing engineering culture

Requirements

• Strong commercial experience leading software engineering teams
• Proven people management and coaching experience within engineering environments
• Excellent hands-on software development capabilities
• Strong Python development experience
• Experience building scalable backend systems and distributed applications
• Expertise with cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP
• Experience implementing and improving CI/CD pipelines and deployment practices
• Background working in startup or high-growth technology environments
• Strong understanding of engineering execution, delivery management, and technical decision making
• Ability to collaborate effectively across Engineering, Product, and leadership teams

Desirable Experience

• Healthcare, HealthTech, biotech, or regulated industry experience
• Experience with HIPAA, SOC2, or similar compliance frameworks
• Exposure to clinical data platforms or healthcare data systems
• React or React Native development experience
• Experience with AI products, AI agents, or AI-assisted software development
• Infrastructure or platform engineering expertise

Benefits

• Opportunity to build and scale an engineering organisation from an early stage
• Direct access to executive leadership and strategic decision making
• Significant technical ownership and influence
• Clear progression opportunities as the company grows
• Hybrid working model based in Cambridge, MA