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.