Hands-on Development Manager — Lead Medical Software Team

Luxoft; Madrid; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Luxoft is seeking a Hands-on Development Manager to lead an engineering team building software for a global medical technology company in dental and orthodontic domain. The role blends technical leadership with people and delivery management, with significant time spent coding, architecting, and guiding the team daily.

You will mentor engineers, drive architecture decisions, and ensure compliance with medical device software processes while collaborating with international clients and product

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software development with strong C++ (C++17/20).
• 2+ years leading development teams while staying hands-on.
• Solid experience with software architecture, design patterns and multithreading.
• Experience with performance optimization and profiling.
• Experience with Agile delivery, planning and estimation.
• Strong communication skills with international clients.
• English at C1 level or higher.

Responsibilities

• Lead a cross-functional development team (developers, QA, DevOps) and own technical delivery end to end.
• Write, review and refactor production C++ code; set coding standards and engineering best practices.
• Drive architecture and design decisions for performance, scalability and maintainability.
• Translate business and clinical requirements into technical solutions with client stakeholders.
• Plan and track work: estimation, sprint planning, risk management and status reporting.
• Ensure compliance with medical device software processes (IEC 62304, ISO 13485).
• Mentor engineers, conduct technical interviews and contribute to team growth.
• Act as the main technical point of contact for the client’s engineering leadership.

Skills

C++ (modern)

Team leadership

Hands-on coding

Architecture design

Multithreading

Performance optimization

Agile

English (C1+)

Client communication

Education

Bachelor in Computer Science

Tools

CMake

GoogleTest

Qt

WebAssembly

Job description

Luxoft is seeking a Hands-on Development Manager to lead an engineering team building software for a global medical technology company in dental and orthodontic domain. The role blends technical leadership with people and delivery management, with significant time spent coding, architecting, and guiding the team daily.

You will mentor engineers, drive architecture decisions, and ensure compliance with medical device software processes while collaborating with international clients and product