VP of Engineering (HealthTech)

Posted 2 hours 2 minutes ago by Bluestorm Limited

Permanent
Full Time
Other
Cambridgeshire, Cambridge, United Kingdom, CB1 0
Job Description

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 fora VP of Engineeringfor 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.