Technical Lead

Ro; York and North Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Equity for all team members

Flexible time off

Paid parental leave

Bi-weekly free lunches

Gym stipend

Learning stipend

Job summary

Ro is seeking a Technical Lead to drive patient-facing experiences at scale, collaborating with engineering, product, design, and data teams to deliver robust web and mobile solutions. You will oversee architecture, contribute hands-on development, and mentor a diverse engineering team in a dynamic healthcare tech environment.

The role emphasizes leadership, strategic partnership, and upgrading service quality while aligning with Ro’s mission to improve health outcomes for millions of patients.

Qualifications

• 8+ years software engineering experience in consumer-facing or product-driven organizations.
• 2+ years People Leadership/Management experience.
• Experience in working in HIPAA environment or healthcare-adjacent field.
• Startup experience

Responsibilities

• Oversee technical direction and architecture to build durable, high-quality services for Ro’s patient experiences.
• Partner with product, design, data, engineering, and infrastructure leads to define strategy, roadmap, and technical design.
• Contribute hands-on to our application development.
• Lead an adaptable team that can deliver on short- and long-term business goals.
• Mentor engineers and managers through their career development.

Skills

Technical leadership

People management

Communication

Mentoring engineers

Tools

Python

TypeScript

React

Job description

• As a Technical Lead at Ro, you’ll be responsible for patient-facing experiences that are supporting hundreds of thousands of existing patients and onboarding thousands more every day to achieve their health goals
• You will be directly accountable for driving a business function supporting millions of patients every day, collaborating directly with engineering, product, design, and data leads on supporting web and mobile experiences to support rapidly evolving care delivery for complex treatment programs. Additionally, you will be accountable for continuing to strengthen our engineering practice, collaborating with other engineering leads on upleveling service and architecture quality
• You are looking for the opportunity to build robust software while mentoring talented engineers and managers, with a large scope of technical ownership, in a dynamic and fast-paced environment
• Oversee technical direction and architecture to build durable, high-quality services to support Ro’s patient experiences
• Partner with the product, design, data, engineering, and infrastructure leads to help define the strategy, roadmap, and support with technical design, work-breakdown, implementation, testing, and deployment of features
• Contribute hands-on to our application development
• Lead an adaptable team that can responsibly deliver on short-term and long-term business goals
• Manage a highly engaged and empathetic engineering team of mixed career levels through their next career goals and professional development opportunities
• Evolve engineering best practices, technical quality, and mentorship in the organization in direct collaboration with senior engineering leadership
• Influence change, encourage innovation, development, and growth at every level of the company

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision membership
• Equity for all team members
• Flexible time off
• Paid parental leave, and flexible work arrangement
• Well-stocked office with snacks and bi-weekly free lunches
• Gym, learning, and development stipends

Proven track record of delivering impactful, timely, robust technical solutions in complex spaces

Demonstrated ability to build strong working relationships across the organization, from other engineering managers and the individual contributors who report to them to the product managers and designers their reports work with, to their peers & the leadership team

Experience building scalable, high-throughput, highly available systems

Familiarity with our core stack languages: Python, Typescript, React

Strong communication, analytical, and technical skills

8+ years software engineering experience in consumer-facing or product-driven organizations

2+ years People Leadership/Management experience

Motivation to not only build technology, but to engage with, innovate in, and take ownership of a business space at the forefront of healthcare access for millions of potential patients

Start up experience

Experience in working in HIPAA environment or healthcare-adjacent field