Head of Product Engineering

Accurx Limited.; London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Accurx Limited., a rapidly growing healthcare technology firm, is seeking a strategic Head of Product Engineering. This is a crucial role that encompasses leadership of customer-facing engineering teams, driving innovative product development, and ensuring alignment with business objectives. The ideal candidate has a strong background in engineering management and a keen understanding of customer needs, committed to delivering high-quality solutions in a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to build and lead high-performing, cross-functional teams.
• Strong understanding of customer needs and the ability to translate them.
• Experience aligning engineering efforts with business goals.
• Strong grasp of front-end and back-end development, cloud architectures.
• Demonstrated success in delivering complex customer-facing solutions on time.

Responsibilities

• Build and mentor a high-performing engineering organisation.
• Collaborate with Product and Design leaders to define product roadmap.
• Drive a culture of continuous improvement within engineering teams.
• Align engineering efforts with business goals and customer impact.

Skills

Leadership

Customer Focus

Strategic Thinking

Technical Expertise

Operational Excellence

Collaboration and Communication

Adaptability and Resilience

Job description

How you’ll be contributing to Accurx as our Head of Product Engineering...

The Head of Product Engineering is a strategic leadership role responsible for delivering exceptional customer-facing features and driving impactful outcomes through innovative, scalable, and high-quality product development. This senior leadership position oversees all customer-facing engineering teams and Product Staff Engineers, ensuring alignment with business goals and a relentless focus on delivering value to users.

A key focus of this role is fostering high-performing, customer-centric engineering teams that excel in collaboration, agility, and execution. By creating an environment where teams are empowered, aligned, and equipped with the right processes and tools, the Head of Product Engineering ensures the organisation consistently delivers impactful, high-quality solutions that delight customers. You work within Product and Technical Leadership, and across Customer Success & Support Teams, UX teams, and our Go-To-Market & Clinical teams.

You'll demonstrate a strong ability to navigate ambiguity and drive clarity in complex and evolving situations. This role requires a proactive leader who can autonomously define priorities, align teams, and execute effectively over a 6–12 month horizon without constant oversight. By balancing strategic vision with hands-on execution, the Head of Product Engineering ensures that the organisation consistently delivers measurable results, even in the face of uncertainty. You will be reporting directly to the Chief Technology Officer.

Your day to day tasks, should you choose to accept this mission ...

• Building and mentoring a high-performing, customer-focused engineering organisation.

• Collaborating with Product and Design leaders to define and execute the product roadmap.

• Ensuring timely delivery of features that meet quality, performance, and scalability standards.

• Driving a culture of continuous improvement and innovation within engineering teams.

• Establishing best practices for software development and rapid iteration.

• Implementing metrics and systems to track and improve engineering productivity and quality.

• Aligning engineering efforts with business goals, ensuring prioritisation reflects customer and organisational impact.

We’d like to hear from you if…

Leadership:

• Proven ability to build and lead high-performing, cross-functional teams.

• Experience mentoring and developing engineering leaders and teams.

Customer Focus:

• Strong understanding of customer needs and the ability to translate them into impactful engineering solutions.

• Track record of delivering exceptional user experiences through innovative product development.

Strategic Thinking:

• Experience aligning engineering efforts with business goals and product strategies.

• Ability to create and execute long-term strategies for scalable and sustainable product development.

Technical Expertise:

• Strong grasp of front-end and back-end development, cloud-based architectures, and scalable systems.

• Familiarity with modern frameworks, microservices, and API design.

Operational Excellence:

• Demonstrated success in delivering complex customer-facing solutions on time and within budget.

• Proven experience improving development velocity and time-to-market without sacrificing quality.

Collaboration and Communication:

• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to influence stakeholders across technical and non-technical domains.

• Collaborative approach to problem-solving and decision-making.

Adaptability and Resilience:

• Comfortable leading through change and uncertainty in a fast-paced environment.

• Resilient under pressure with the ability to manage competing priorities effectively.

Like the sound of this role and want to know more about the company? Here's more about us...

We’re a fast-growing healthcare technology company which makes it easier for patients and healthcare teams to communicate.

Accurx is where conversations happen with and about patients. Our software helps doctors, nurses, pharmacists, administrators and other professionals to seamlessly connect with both patients and each other.

Our mission is simple: everything we do is to make patients healthier and healthcare staff happier. Today, Accurx is used in 98% of GP practices nationwide and every day more healthcare professionals are using our software in hospitals, pharmacies, care homes and the community.

We’re passionate about staying close to our users, which is why everyone at Accurx visits a GP practice at least twice a quarter to understand how a practice runs, the difficulties they face with technologies and how we can help.

Head over to our main careers page to find out more about the team and our candidate hub.

You can also find out more about us on Medium, LinkedIn and Twitter & Instagram.

Our YouTube channel is full of demos of our product, webinars we have held with our users and some clips about life at Accurx.

Diversity & Inclusion

Accurx is committed to being an inclusive employer.As part of this, we’re glad to accommodate candidates who need adjustments throughout the interview process.

Pre-employment Screening

All successful candidates are asked to complete a Basic DBS check along with other pre-employment checks (referencing & right to work). You can find more on our process here. If you’d like to ask questions before you apply please email [e-mail].