VP of Engineering

About Sonio

Each year, 140M children are born. Birth defects affect 1 in 33 births in developed countries, and in 50% of cases, they are not detected during prenatal examinations. Prenatal medicine is particularly complex, and the scans impose heavy responsibilities on healthcare professionals. They can also be a source of stress for future parents.

Resulting from 5 years of collaboration between world-renowned experts from Necker Hospital and Ecole Polytechnique, Sonio uses artificial intelligence to improve prenatal screening and diagnosis. Based on patented algorithms and a proprietary expert database, Sonio aims to become the reference tool to help practitioners improve screening, reduce diagnostic errors, and optimize pregnant women’s medical path.

Sonio's mission is to improve women's and children's health by promoting access and quality of care through technological innovation, medical expertise, and collective intelligence.

About the role

Our product provides real-time assistance to practitioners during fetal ultrasound examinations. We built systems that interface with ultrasound machines (multi-platform edge software), stream imaging data to our cloud (real-time web tech), interpret data and images using AI/ML and push the results back to the practitioner’s interface (reactive web apps) - all in near real-time.

We’re at a critical point in our growth where we need to scale the foundations that we built. The team is currently composed as follows:

• 3 Squads (soon 4) with 3-4 engineers per team and one lead or lead Engineering Manager per squad
• A transversal team composed of:
  • 4 Data Engineers
  • 1 DevOps Engineer
  • 2 QA engineers (freelance with aim to become permanent)
• A Solution Engineering team that supports on pre-sales & installation

You’ll have a broad, strategic focus, overseeing the entire engineering organization. You will define the engineering vision, culture, and processes to align with business objectives. You will work closely with executives (CEO, CTO, Product, and Business leaders) on company-wide strategy. Working very closely with Deepak, CTO, the main missions are:

• Define and execute the engineering strategy in alignment with our growth and product goals.
• Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing engineering team. One of the key missions will be to create the engineering team lead layers for each squad. You’ll be managing a large team and you’ll set and communicate team and individual priorities that support the broader organization's goals and mission, specifically in line with our culture between challenge and care.
• Make high-level hiring decisions, determine team structures, and influence budget allocation.
• Establish scalable engineering processes to support rapid growth.
• Oversee technical architecture, infrastructure, and system design to ensure scalability, reliability, and security.
• Collaborate with product management, regulatory, and clinical teams to ensure rapid delivery in a regulated environment.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership when necessary, including code reviews and architectural guidance.
• Take ownership of the client implementation from a tech perspective - we’re experiencing strong growth on the commercial side and we need to ensure that product, infrastructure & processes are ready from a tech perspective.

About the profile

Sonio is a mission-driven company, so interest in our mission is critical. The ideal profile has experience with some of the following:

• Building/involved in building a product from scratch - so going from 0 to 1.
• Scaling a product successfully - so going from 1 to 10 at least.
• Managing a successful product (managing scale).

Other requirements are:

• Strong knowledge of web technologies and understanding of distributed system architecture.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• You have strong management experience, you are able to lead a large team with care and always ensure excellence of the output.
• You value teamwork and you are team-oriented. This role will interact with most of the teams internally. Moreover, happiness and well-being are a priority in the way we’re building the team and we also want to be innovative here!
• You speak fluent English.

Localisation: Paris

Salary: Total package between €125k and €140k

We move fast and aspire to be transparent over the process - our objective is that the process from the first chat to an offer is no longer than a month. We also aspire to give an answer to every application in a week - if you have not heard from us, please follow up at careers@sonio.ai.