Director, Full Stack Engineering at Butterfly Network – New York, NY Office

NEXT Ai PRESS; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Butterfly Network, Inc. in New York, NY seeks a seasoned Director of Full Stack Engineering to lead a distributed team building the Enterprise Clinical workflows platform, ensuring security and HIPAA/PHI compliance.

You will shape tech strategy, drive roadmap with Product and Design, recruit top engineers, and foster processes for reliability, observability, and cross‑functional collaboration across time zones.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering with 3–5 years in engineering leadership.
• Experience leading distributed teams across multiple time zones.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, cloud architecture, and full stack web development at scale.
• Experience hiring, developing, and retaining senior engineering talent.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a high‑performing full stack team across onshore and offshore.
• Define technical strategy and architecture for the Enterprise Clinical workflows platform.
• Own engineering roadmap execution with Product and Design.
• Establish engineering processes: code reviews, on‑call practices, and incident response.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, Data, Security, and Compliance stakeholders.
• Drive observability, operational excellence, and HIPAA/PHI compliance across the platform.

Skills

Distributed leadership

Cloud architecture

Full stack development

People management

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

React

TypeScript

WebSockets

Job description

Director, Full Stack Engineering at Butterfly Network – New York, NY Office

Lead a distributed Full Stack Engineering team to build and scale the Enterprise Clinical workflows platform, defining technical strategy, architecture, and roadmap execution while ensuring HIPAA/PHI compliance and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities

Lead, grow, and inspire a high-performing full stack engineering team spanning onshore and offshore engineers; define and drive the technical strategy and architecture for the Enterprise Clinical workflows platform; own engineering roadmap execution by partnering with Product and Design; recruit, retain, and develop top engineering talent; establish and evolve engineering processes such as code review standards, on-call practices, and incident response; serve as a senior technical voice across the organization; build strong cross-functional relationships with Product, Design, Data, Security, and Compliance stakeholders; drive a culture of observability, operational excellence, and HIPAA/PHI compliance.

Requirements

6+ years of software engineering experience with at least 3–5 years in engineering management or senior technical leadership; proven track record of leading distributed engineering teams across multiple time zones; deep understanding of distributed systems, cloud architecture, and full stack web development at scale; experience hiring, developing, and retaining senior engineering talent; strong product sensibility; excellent communication and influencing skills; Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

Nice to Have

GraphQL and related frameworks (e.g., Relay, Apollo, URQL); experience with LLMs and MLOps; containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker, ECS, EKS; web apps with live updates using pub/sub solutions (such as Redis) or WebSockets; designing and building observability solutions; frontend experience with React and TypeScript; Opensearch or other Lucene-based search engines; HIPAA, PHI, and PII compliance; experience leading engineering teams in health tech, medical devices, or other regulated industries.

About the Company

Director, Full Stack EngineeringCompany DescriptionButterfly Network, Inc. (NYSE: BFLY) is driving a digital revolution in ultrasound imaging and sensing with its proprietary Ultrasound-on-Chip™ semiconductor technology and software solutions. Butterfly first proved its technology in the point-of-care ultrasound market – commercializing the world’s first single-probe, whole-body portable ultrasound device, which is now on its best-selling, third-generation: Butterfly iQ3™. The Company combines its advanced hardware with cloud software and AI, an enterprise workflow solution (Compass AI™) and other offerings to drive adoption of affordable, accessible ultrasound. Butterfly also enables third-party development of imaging AI apps through Butterfly Garden™, its software development kit and AI partnership initiative.In addition to its medical imaging products, Butterfly Embedded™ is the Company’s Ultrasound-on-Chip™ licensing and co-development program designed to enable a new wave of ultrasound-enabled technologies across non-competitive healthcare markets and beyond. Through Butterfly Embedded™, partners can build and scale novel ultrasound applications powered by Butterfly’s proprietary semiconductor chip and software platform. Butterfly’s innovations have been recognized by Prix Galien USA, Fierce 50, TIME’s Best Inventions and Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas, among other achievements.We’re a team of bold thinkers, problem-solvers, and innovators ready to shape the future of medical imaging. Let’s build something extraordinary together!Job DescriptionWe are seeking a seasoned engineering leader to lead our Full Stack Engineering team, responsible for building and scaling our critical Enterprise Clinical workflows platform. The Butterfly Cloud provides a secure and robust connection to user's health information — powering tools and services that help doctors and clinicians make informed, intelligent diagnostic decisions with the help of their peers.As Director, you will lead a distributed team of engineers across both onshore and offshore locations, setting the technical direction for our enterprise platform — including user and organization administration, feature and entitlement management, global search, audit logging, and scalable platform features. You'll partner closely with Product, Design, and other engineering leaders to shape roadmap priorities and drive execution across the full stack.As part of our team, your core responsibilities will be to:- Lead, grow, and inspire a high-performing full stack engineering team spanning onshore and offshore engineers — fostering a culture of excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement.- Define and drive the technical strategy and architecture for the Enterprise Clinical workflows platform, balancing innovation with reliability, security, and scalability.- Own engineering roadmap execution — partnering with Product and Design to translate business goals into clear, well-scoped plans, and holding the team accountable to delivery.- Recruit, retain, and develop top engineering talent; build a healthy team culture where people grow and do their best work.- Establish and evolve engineering processes — code review standards, on-call practices, incident response, and cross-team ways of working — to maximize team effectiveness across time zones.- Serve as a senior technical voice across the organization, contributing to architectural decisions, evaluating new technologies, and raising the bar on engineering quality.- Build strong cross-functional relationships with Product, Design, Data, Security, and Compliance stakeholders to ensure alignment and unblock the team.- Drive a culture of observability, operational excellence, and HIPAA/PHI compliance across the platform.QualificationsBaseline skills/experiences/attributes:- 6+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3–5 years in engineering management or a senior technical leadership role.- Proven track record of leading distributed engineering teams, including managing offshore or nearshore