Director/VP of Engineering

DrDoctor; London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

DrDoctor is seeking a Director/VP of Engineering to lead the building of high-performance engineering teams in a rapidly growing health technology company. This role involves strategizing with product leaders and ensuring operational excellence to transform health service delivery.

Benefits

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Team socials and events

Summer and Christmas parties

Qualifications

• Delivered cultural change within engineering functions.
• Experience in a regulated industry, preferably HealthTech.
• Ability to lead complex architectural changes.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for tech, people, and processes in engineering.
• Set product and engineering strategy with the Product Director.
• Drive team performance and innovation in healthcare technology.

Skills

Leadership

Collaboration

Innovation

Job description

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We are looking for a Director /VP of Engineering with experience in building and scaling high-performance, agile engineering organizations in fast-growing technology-driven businesses.

With this position, you’ll be a key member of our company's executive team. Working with your Product Director counterpart you will set the product & engineering strategy and help teams prioritize to deliver on it. The role is ultimately accountable for all the tech, people, and processes in our engineering organization with currently 60+ people.

Who are you?

• You have a passion to innovate within the healthcare technology space
• You enjoy inspiring and guiding driven teams
• You set clear direction and and skilfully drive necessary changes
• You create high-performance engineering organizations with a focus on efficient team structures, a great data-driven engineering culture, and lean processes that inspire ownership and execution
• You are a role model who encourages an entrepreneurial spirit by applying an optimal balance of guidance and control to enable people to get the job done
• You have a strong and diverse technical background and can get deep into technical and architectural conversations with engineers and feel comfortable explaining these topics to non-technical stakeholders inside and outside the company
• You have an optimistic growth mindset and are comfortable with a rapid pace and continuous change
• You have strong collaboration skills, with the ability to work closely with product management, design, and engineering teams as well as other senior leaders from other functions
• You provide excellent mentoring and development for our top engineers and engineering managers

OK, that’s me, but who are DrDoctor?

We the NHS and want to help it work better. We radically transform the delivery of health services to make healthcare work for everyone – for patients, doctors, administrative teams and taxpayers.

We contact over 1m NHS patients every month and have saved 500k of unnecessary or missed NHS appointments in the last year. Our platform is cloud hosted (Azure) including web apps and backed services (mostly Microsoft stack) that are event based (5m events per day).

Take a look at our careers page () to find out a bit more about our mission, vision, and impact!

What would I be doing day to day?

One of the great things about a scale-up is that every day is different and there is always an opportunity to get involved in something outside of your ‘BAU’!

Here are some of the current engineering opportunities that are on our mind which all come under the theme of ‘improving our time to value’:

• How do we complete our move from monolith to microservice? Where is the most value?
• How do we evolve our team topology and domain ownership so we can focus on the growth areas and enable fast flow?
• How do we improve the ‘engine’ - developer experience, cycle time, test environments?
• What guidance, tools and best practice would allow our devs to focus on the hard problems not recreating the basics each time?
• How do we improve our security, support and incidents processes so we can proactively address things before they become problems for our users?
• Can we create clearer roles for individual contributor and management tracks to allow better planning and delivery?

OK, I’m interested. What experience do I need to have?

• Delivered cultural change at all levels of an engineering function
• Experience in a similar regulated industry is a significant advantage, it would be a bonus if that was within HealthTech or Digital Health.
• Led a Series B or C enterprise SaaS scale up through a time of transformation, coaching and developing the Engineering leadership team to meet business objectives
• Have led teams through complex architectural changes or migrations
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to use evidence to identify priorities and strategic goals
• Technical background and familiarity with distributed architectures
• Ability to identify and articulate the technological and organisational needs now and for the future, representing these at exec level
  

We know from research and experience that candidates may not apply if they don’t think they meet 100% of our requirements. If you don’t tick all the boxes but feel you would be a good fit, we would still love to hear from you. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive culture!

You will need to have the Right To Work in the UK, and as we work closely with the NHS, if we get to the stage where we make you an offer to join us, we will also need to undertake a DBS check.

We are perfect for each other, what are the next steps?

We are currently recruiting heavily and have a lot of CVs to go through. However, we don’t wait for roles to close before going through your CV. We will be in touch in a few days to let you know if we think we might be a match, and if we are not. Unfortunately, because we get so many CV’s we are not able to send a personalised reply if it’s not a match. However, if you want more details as to why, just drop us a note and we will arrange to get some feedback over to you.

If it’s a match, then we will arrange a time to talk to you on a quick 30 minute call. It’s just an informal chat so you can relax! We will tell you more about the role, the team and why you should want to join us.

If we continue, then we will invite you to meet some of the team, most likely virtually. Some of our roles will also be subject to completing an assessment or a role related exercise.

We get there are a lot of great roles out there, so we will make sure to get through the rounds as quickly as possible. All we ask is you keep us up to date with your plans.

I can’t wait to get started, what are the perks?

An awesome team and mission? You want more?

We keep all of our Perks and Benefits updated on our careers page – we like to think there is something for everyone! Let us know if you have any questions regarding them.

As DrDoctor has grown, we are seeing more of our people wanting to socialise in different ways.

Whilst we know that some of us love to go to the pub, we want to make sure we are including a wide variety of activities and events for our teams to enjoy each other's company, we aim to continue creating an open space for anyone and everyone to suggest how they’d like to spend time with their teams.

We love a Summer and Christmas party and regular company/team socials and away days. In the past year or so, we have enjoyed picnics at a nearby farm, a water colouring session, board games evening and Crystal Maze! So far in 2023 we have held various events for celebrations such as Holi Festival, International Women’s Day, Pancake Day and Pride celebrations and our 11th Birthday!

Salary banding for this role is: £110,000- £140,000 + share options and internally this role will be called "Engineering Director"