Head of Engineering

Jobtailor; Deutschland; Vor Ort; EUR 150.000 - 190.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

PracticeMatch seeks a seasoned Head of Engineering to define and drive a multi-year technology roadmap, modernizing legacy platforms while preserving product stability, customer commitments, and regulatory compliance in healthcare recruiting.

You will lead engineering teams, partner with product and business leaders to align priorities with competitive strategy, champion agentic AI adoption, and establish strong CI/CD, observability, and security foundations to accelerate reliable delivery.

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
• Active engagement with AI training and upskilling programs; demonstrated adoption of agentic coding tools.
• 12+ years of progressive software engineering experience, including significant hands-on technical work.
• 5+ years of engineering leadership experience, including direct management of engineering teams.

Aufgaben

• Define and execute a multi-year technology roadmap that modernizes PracticeMatch's legacy platform, prioritizing migrations based on business value, risk, and continuity.
• Partner with product and business leadership to align engineering priorities with competitive strategy and customer outcomes.
• Establish a phased approach to system transformation while maintaining product stability and customer commitments.
• Evaluate and recommend modern technologies to position PracticeMatch for long-term scalability.
• Champion agentic AI adoption across the engineering lifecycle, ensuring reliable production work through repository context and review discipline.
• Lead, manage, and develop the PracticeMatch engineering team across software engineering and QA functions.
• Build a culture of engineering excellence with code quality standards, security, documentation, peer review, and test automation.
• Attract, recruit, and retain strong engineering talent; develop career paths and development plans.
• Conduct performance conversations, provide feedback, and address performance issues in partnership with HR.
• Foster psychological safety and a team environment where engineers raise concerns and learn from failure.
• Own engineering delivery with well-scoped projects and reliable, quality outcomes.
• Maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, deployment infrastructure, and observability.
• Troubleshoot production incidents, drive root-cause analysis and durable fixes.
• Identify work suitable for AI-assisted workflows while maintaining necessary human review.

Jobbeschreibung

• Define and execute a multi-year technology roadmap that systematically modernizes PracticeMatch's legacy platform, prioritizing migrations and rewrites based on business value, risk, and continuity.
• Partner with product and business leadership to align engineering priorities with PracticeMatch's competitive strategy and customer outcomes.
• Establish a pragmatic, phased approach to system transformation — maintaining product stability and customer commitments while executing toward a modern, maintainable architecture.
• Evaluate and recommend modern technology choices (languages, frameworks, cloud infrastructure, data platforms) that position PracticeMatch for long-term scalability.
• Champion the responsible adoption of agentic AI across the engineering lifecycle — from planning, design, and development through testing, deployment, and production operations — ensuring engineers build the review discipline and repository context that make AI-assisted work reliable.
• Lead, manage, and develop the PracticeMatch engineering team, including direct and indirect reports across software engineering and QA functions.
• Build and sustain a culture of engineering excellence: clear standards for code quality, security, documentation, peer review, and test automation.
• Attract, recruit, and retain strong engineering talent; build career paths and development plans that grow engineers at each level.
• Conduct regular performance conversations; provide direct, constructive feedback; and address performance issues promptly and fairly in partnership with HR.
• Foster psychological safety and a team environment where engineers can raise concerns, propose improvements, and learn from failure.
• Own engineering delivery — ensuring that projects are scoped well, executed reliably, and completed to a standard of quality the team can stand behind.
• Maintain and improve the engineering systems — CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, deployment infrastructure, quality gates, and observability — that allow the team to ship confidently.
• Troubleshoot complex production incidents; drive root cause analysis and durable fixes.
• Implement and refine the repository context, conventions, and executable plans that support effective agentic coding with tools such as Claude Code and Codex.
• Identify engineering work that can move to AI-assisted or automated workflows, keeping human review in place where it protects quality, accuracy, and compliance.
• Serve as the primary technology partner to PracticeMatch's business and product leadership, translating technical considerations into business terms and business priorities into engineering plans.
• Collaborate with M3 USA's broader technology leadership and other business unit CTOs on shared infrastructure, platforms, and standards.
• Communicate architecture decisions, transformation progress, and engineering health clearly to senior leadership, including the M3 USA CEO and CHRO.
• Partner with HR on workforce planning, organizational design, compensation benchmarking, and talent strategy for the engineering team.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
• Active engagement with M3 USA's AI training and upskilling programs; demonstrated adoption of agentic coding tools.
• 12+ years of progressive software engineering experience, including significant time in a hands‑on technical role.
• 5+ years of engineering leadership experience, including direct management of engineering teams.
• Demonstrated experience leading legacy system modernization or technology platform migration efforts.
• Experience in a SaaS, data, or platform product environment; healthcare technology or physician recruiting industry experience a plus.
• Expert‑level understanding of web application architecture.
• Strong working knowledge of modern web technologies (React or equivalent front‑end frameworks, RESTful APIs, cloud infrastructure, containerization).
• Experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines, automated test frameworks, and observability systems.
• Practical knowledge of application security, data privacy, and compliance requirements in web products.
• Working knowledge of agentic coding tools (Claude Code, Codex, or equivalents) and the techniques — repository context, quality gates, review discipline — that make them reliable in production engineering.
• Proven ability to recruit, manage, and develop engineering talent at multiple levels.
• Strong written and verbal communication; able to present technical information to executive, business, and engineering audiences.
• Familiarity with the physician recruiting or healthcare data domain is an advantage.

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in leading engineering teams through legacy system modernization and technology platform migrations, with a strong focus on adopting agentic coding tools and ensuring product stability. Possesses a deep understanding of web application architecture and modern web technologies, alongside a commitment to fostering a culture of engineering excellence.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Engineering Leadership
• Legacy System Modernization
• Web Application Architecture
• CI/CD Pipeline Design
• Agentic Coding Tools

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• Software Engineering
• Web Application Architecture
• Modern Web Technologies
• CI/CD Pipeline Design
• Automated Testing
• Application Security
• Data Privacy Compliance
• Cloud Infrastructure
• Containerization
• RESTful APIs

Soft Skills

• Strong Communication
• Team Development
• Performance Management
• Psychological Safety
• Collaboration

Industry Keywords

• SaaS
• Healthcare Technology
• Physician Recruiting
• Data Platforms
• Technology Roadmap

Tools & Technologies

• Claude Code
• Codex
• Automated Testing Frameworks
• Observability Systems
• Quality Gates