The client is seeking a Director of Engineering to lead and develop a high-performing engineering team within a rapidly growing healthcare technology startup. This role is pivotal in shaping the engineering organization, technology platform, and team culture, with a focus on leveraging advanced technology to improve disease detection, monitoring, and patient outcomes. The Director will be responsible for fostering a culture of accountability and collaboration, overseeing engineering delivery, and aligning technical priorities with business goals in partnership with cross-functional leadership.
Key responsibilities include architecting, building, and scaling backend systems, applications, and cloud infrastructure to support a growing platform. The Director will establish engineering best practices across areas such as CI/CD, testing, observability, reliability, and operational excellence, while also contributing directly to production code and complex technical initiatives.
The role involves driving the adoption of AI-assisted software development practices, supporting hiring efforts, and helping to scale the engineering organization as the business expands. The ideal candidate will have extensive software engineering and leadership experience, with a strong hands-on development background and expertise in Python, React, and modern cloud platforms.
Experience building and scaling distributed systems, as well as a solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines and engineering operations, is essential. Additional experience in regulated industries, compliance environments, infrastructure engineering, or AI-assisted development is preferred. This position offers a competitive compensation package, meaningful equity participation, and the opportunity to shape engineering strategy and culture within a mission-driven, collaborative environment.
Director of Engineering in Cambridge at Confidential
This position is listed as full time and onsite. It was posted 5 days ago.