Director of Product Engineering (Healthcare IT)
Location: London (Hybrid 2-3 days per week in the office)
Regular international travel to India is required
Reporting to: CTO
Overview
We are seeking an accomplished Director of Engineering to lead and scale our engineering organisation within a high-growth, health-focused environment. This is a rare opportunity to shape the future of technology platforms that support critical healthcare services while driving operational excellence across distributed teams in the UK and India.
This role requires a rare blend of deep technical expertise, organisational leadership, and business partnership. You will operate as a senior technical authority, a people leader, and a trusted partner to the business-capable of shaping architecture, driving delivery across multiple initiatives, and building strong day-to-day relationships with senior stakeholders.
You will be joining a high-growth organisation that has scaled to approximately 60M in revenue and is targeting 140M+, requiring the ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, evolving environment with increasing scale and complexity.
The successful candidate will be a strategic leader, technical authority, and business partner capable of delivering secure, scalable, and compliant systems. You will operate at the intersection of architecture, delivery, and organisational leadership, influencing senior stakeholders and guiding high-performing teams to success.
Key Responsibilities:
Leadership & Delivery
Lead multiple engineering teams across the UK and India, delivering complex initiatives in parallel
Own end-to-end delivery across multiple projects, ensuring alignment, prioritisation, and predictability
Establish robust operating models for distributed teams and multiple workstreams
Drive clarity on dependencies, timelines, and outcomes to senior leadership
Technical Leadership
Define architecture and platform strategy across mobile (Flutter), web (Next.js), and backend (Node.js, Python)
Lead and optimise AWS cloud infrastructure for scalability, resilience, and cost efficiency
Champion best practices in microservices, API-first design, DevOps, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code
Provide hands-on architectural guidance and challenge technical decisions as needed
Product & Business Partnership
Partner closely with Product and business leaders to translate priorities into actionable delivery plans.
Working closely with Heads of Product, Data, Security, Customer Experience & The COO
Advise on feasibility, trade-offs, and timelines with clarity and influence
Ensure engineering output aligns with business value and measurable user outcomes
People & Culture
Build, mentor, and retain high-performing engineering teams across geographies
Develop engineering managers and technical leads, establishing clear ownership and accountability
Foster a cohesive, collaborative culture with consistent standards and ways of working
Delivery & Compliance
Oversee the delivery of secure, compliant healthcare systems
Ensure adherence to data privacy, security, and regulatory standards
Track and report engineering metrics, including quality, reliability, and performance
Requirements:
Experience
10+ years in software engineering, with 3-5 years in senior leadership roles
Proven track record in managing multiple teams or pods delivering in parallel
Hands-on engineering or architectural experience
Experience leading high-performing teams and partnering with Product and business stakeholders
Experience in regulated industries (healthcare is preferred)
Demonstrated success scaling teams, processes, and systems in fast-growth organisations
Technical Skills
Deep knowledge of modern software architecture (cloud, microservices, APIs)
Experience with Flutter (mobile), Next.js (web), Node.js/Python (backend)
Extensive AWS cloud expertise
Ability to provide strategic guidance and challenge teams on design, scalability, and implementation
Leadership Profile
A Hybrid leader: strategic, technical, and people-focused
Strong communicator capable of influencing senior stakeholders and distributed teams
Comfortable navigating ambiguity and driving clarity across complex programmes
Success Metrics
High-performing pods delivering consistently against goals
Trusted partnerships with Product and business stakeholders
Cohesive, scalable AWS-based platform
Engaged, high-performing teams across the UK and India
Predictable delivery and clear technical direction
In Return
You will receive a market-leading salary of up to 150,000 plus generous company benefits and a forward-thinking and fast-growing business for you to excel in.