Director of Engineering

JustBacked; Stockholms kommun; On-site; SEK 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary & stock options

30 days vacation per year

Wellness allowance 5000 SEK + 6000 SEK

Parental leave top-up

Private Medical Insurance

Mental health support

Pension program

Team-building activities

Job summary

Tandem Health, a fast-scaling health-tech company, is seeking a Director of Engineering to shape and evolve engineering across the organisation. You will lead the engineering craft and act as the platform org's operational leader, driving high-quality software delivery and AI-enabled innovation.

You will balance speed with maintainability, mentor engineers, and align cross-functional teams on technical direction while preserving a culture of excellence and ownership.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering experience with deep technical understanding.
• Experience setting up agentic engineering principles.
• Experience leading large technical initiatives, engineering practices, or teams.
• Strong systems thinking and ability to balance speed, scalability, and maintainability.
• Strong communication skills and ability to align teams around common engineering principles.

Responsibilities

• Lead and evolve the overall engineering craft at Tandem.
• Push the cutting edge of how agentic engineering enables faster and higher quality delivery.
• Improve engineering processes, workflows, tooling, and development practices across teams.
• Partner closely with Product, Design, and Engineering leadership to shape how we build products.
• Support and mentor engineers and Team Leads through technical guidance and collaboration.
• Contribute hands-on when needed across architecture, systems design, or implementation.
• Create alignment around technical direction and engineering quality across the company.
• Continuously improve our systems and practices such that we can ship at high velocity with 99.99% uptime

Skills

Strong software engineering experience

Agentic engineering principles

Lead large technical initiatives

Systems thinking

Strong communication

Ownership and long-term thinking

Job description

Build something monumental for Healthcare!

At Tandem Health we're reimagining healthcare by putting clinicians first. Our platform - designed by clinicians, for clinicians - is built on deep insight into real-world pain points, with intuitive medical notes and workflows that truly support patient care.

We're a fast-scaling health-tech company backed by top investors and expanding globally. We move fast, stay curious, and believe building something that matters starts with an extraordinary team. If you're passionate about impact and innovation, we'd love to meet you!

About The Role

As Director of Engineering at Tandem, you'll be responsible for shaping and evolving how engineering is done across the company. You'll be the craft leader for engineering across the entire organisation, as well as the operational leader of the platform org.

Being the craft leader for engineering means you'll be the elevating how we build and ship software. Ensuring our practices and processes deliver high quality software at a rapid pace, and build an environment where great engineers can do their life's work. And as the operational leader of the platform org you'll lead the teams responsible for infra, devex, security and data, with the operational mandate do build out the needed platform.

We're looking for someone who genuinely cares about engineering culture and long-term technical quality. Someone who thinks deeply about developer experience, systems design, engineering velocity, and organizational effectiveness - without defaulting to heavyweight processes or unnecessary bureaucracy.

You'll operate as both a strategic engineering leader and a hands-on technical contributor when needed. Some days that means discussing architecture decisions with engineers or improving development workflows. Other days it means helping teams align on engineering standards, improving technical execution across the organization, shaping how AI changes the way modern engineering teams operate, or helping the team leads in your organisation grow.

You've experienced the immense value that agentic engineering brings, but have no tolerance for slop - and want to build out the systems that enable extreme quality with agentic engineering.

This role is a great fit for someone who has progressed quickly in their career, enjoys creating clarity and strong engineering environments, and wants to have a significant impact on how engineering scales at a fast-growing AI company.

What You Will Do

• Lead and evolve the overall engineering craft at Tandem
• Push the cutting edge of how agentic engineering enables faster and higher quality delivery
• Improve engineering processes, workflows, tooling, and development practices across teams
• Partner closely with Product, Design, and Engineering leadership to shape how we build products
• Support and mentor engineers and Team Leads through technical guidance and collaboration
• Contribute hands-on when needed across architecture, systems design, or implementation
• Create alignment around technical direction and engineering quality across the company
• Continuously improve our systems and practices such that we can ship at high velocity with 99.99% uptime

What You Bring

• Strong software engineering experience with deep technical understanding and ability
• A deep passion for the software engineering craft, you can't stop yourself from using software to solve problems
• Experience setting up agentic engineering principles
• Experience leading large technical initiatives, engineering practices, or teams.
• Strong systems thinking and ability to balance speed, scalability, and maintainability
• A genuine interest in engineering culture, developer experience, and organization effectiveness
• Effectiveness
• Ability to create clarity and structure in fast-moving environments
• Pragmatic judgment - you know when process helps and when it slows teams down
• Strong communication skills and ability to align teams around common engineering principles
• A high level of ownership and long-term thinking around technical quality
• Good skills in deciding when and how to trade off product velocity with tech debt

Bonus Points

• Experience building AI-native products
• Experience in healthtech
• Experience shaping an engineering organisation through a high growth scale up phase
• Experience building very high availability software

Location

We believe the best ideas happen when we're together. This role is based in our vibrant HQ at Kungsgatan 12-14 in the heart of Stockholm where you will work primarily from our office to collaborate, connect, and build our culture.

Our Interview Process Consists Of 4 Stages

• Screening interview with Talent Acquisition
• Hiring Manager interview with our CTO
• Technical Interview with 2 of our engineers
• Working day at the office - Join us in the Stockholm office for a case, lunch and a presentation to experience our our culture firsthand, collaborate with our team, and see how you work in action.

Benefits

• Competitive salary & company stock options
• 30 days/year of paid vacation
• 5,000 SEK wellness allowance (friskvårdsbidrag) plus an additional 6,000 SEK yearly to spend on other health related initiatives
• Generous Parental leave top-up for new parents
• Private Medical Insurance to stay healthy
• Mental health support through our partner Mindler
• Pension program
• Social and team-building activities (off-sites, after works, winter/summer parties)
• An opportunity to make a real positive impact in the world of healthcare
• Work with some of the best minds in AI, healthcare, and engineering.

Culture at Tandem

At Tandem, we move fast, think big, and take ownership. We're a high-performing, diverse team with a shared drive to change the future of healthcare - and we're just getting started.

Our culture is built on action, ambition, and learning. You'll be trusted to take the lead, challenge yourself, and make an impact from day one. We believe real growth happens when you're stretched, supported, and surrounded by smart, passionate teammates who want to win together.

Even though we're spread across countries, we come together often in Sweden for team meetings, social events, and offsites - blending global reach with real human connection.

We hire for talent, potential, and attitude - valuing different backgrounds and fresh perspectives. Great ideas come from everywhere, and we're building a team that reflects the world we want to change.

Tandem handles sensitive patient data and will conduct a background check before hiring any candidate.