VP of Engineering (HealthTech)

Our renowned & successful client is providing Healthtech services. By going through a steady and intensive growth stage, our client is now scaling up their teams, and looking for a VP of Engineering for their mobile and web solutions.

About the role

Lead the team to deliver high-quality, scalable products on time with your proven methodologies and tools

Manage in-house mobile, front-end, back-end developers and QA engineers along with off-shore design, devops and contractors

Dive into technical challenges and solve complex problems day-to-day

Drive the design of our software architecture

Collaborate with the product team on delivering the product vision with speed, agility and quality

Define and implement the engineering strategy, lead on all research and development, and ensure these are communicated with the executive team, and wider company

Recruiting for top talent in software development, QA, project management

Be responsible for the delivery of the sprint, including task allocation, unblocking technical obstacles, supporting technical challenges

Continuous improvement on engineering practices

Requirements

Previous Start-up experience (able to deal with ups/downs, stress, ambiguity, pace of delivery and scope changes)

Strong understanding of both agile and waterfall methodologies for product / project management

Hands-on role - need to be able to develop and build and scale an engineering team (>15 people)

Strong understanding of system designs between mobile apps and backend systems

Experience with scaling systems to accommodate millions of users.

Discipline to be able to plan, organise and anticipate keeping key deliverables on track, while balancing technical debts

Experience managing and developing hybrid in-office/remote engineering teams

Experience in setting quantifiable OKR and measuring team performance

You should ideally have worked with the following technologies: Node.JS, React.JS, MongoDB, AWS, Swift (iOS), Kotlin / Java for Android

Benefits

Competitive Salary

Equity and bonus package to directly

Very generous introduction referral

Company social events

Private health insurance and thousands of pounds worth of health & wellbeing-related perks to help you live healthy

Extra holiday

If you think you are the right candidate for this position, please apply below.