Director of Engineering

Clinical ink; United States; Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Clinical Ink is looking for a Director of Engineering to lead its Disease Management team across the United States and Denmark. You will direct the engineering roadmap, nurture team growth, and ensure effective communication with product and regulatory teams.

The ideal candidate has significant experience in software delivery, excellent judgment on architecture, and the ability to thrive in a regulated environment. Join Clinical Ink and be a pivotal part of redefining clinical trials through innovative approaches.

Qualifications

• Experience leading engineering teams in software delivery.
• Strong judgment on architecture and trade-offs.
• Comfortability in regulated and safety-critical environments.

Responsibilities

• Own the delivery of project milestones and team growth.
• Partner with the Principal Engineer for architecture decisions.
• Establish reliability practices as the platform heads to production.

Skills

Leadership

Technical Judgment

Communication

AI-Augmented Engineering

Tools

Python

FastAPI

AWS

Job description

Company Information

Clinical Ink is the global life science company that brings data, technology, and patient science together to unlock clinical discovery. Our deep therapeutic‑area expertise, coupled with Direct Data Capture, eCOA, eConsent, telehealth, neurocognitive testing, and digital biomarkers advancement, drive the industry standard for data precision and usher in a new generation of clinical trials. With offices in the United States and Denmark, Clinical Ink is rewriting the clinical development experience.

Job Description

Clinical Ink is seeking a Director of Engineering to join Clinical Ink's Disease Management team based in Denmark and the United States. In this role, you own how the engineering team delivers: the roadmap and milestones, the people and their growth, and the interface to product, clinical, regulatory, and the executive team. You set technical direction with the Principal Engineer — you don’t have to be the deepest architect in the room, but you must be technical enough to make and defend hard trade‑offs, and to keep a regulated delivery on track without smothering the team’s drive to build.

• Own delivery: turn product and regulatory intent into a sequenced, achievable plan; hit the submission and release milestones.
• Hire, grow, and lead the engineering team — set the bar, run the loop, develop people, and shape a culture of ownership and impact.
• Partner with the Principal Engineer on architecture and significant‑change decisions; make the build‑vs‑buy and resourcing calls.
• Be the engineering voice to product, clinical, regulatory/QMS, and execs — translate in both directions and keep commitments honest.
• Stand up the reliability practice as the platform heads to production: SLOs and error budgets, observability, incident response, and a humane on‑call — operational maturity that scales with the product. Own the infra/cloud spend and resourcing trade‑offs.
• Steward process that helps, not hinders: the quality system, change control, and CI controls should make safe shipping faster, not slower.
• Champion AI‑augmented engineering as a force‑multiplier for a small team, with verification and safety built in.

Qualifications

• Experience leading engineering teams that shipped real software, with a credible technical foundation (you came up through backend/platform or can hold your own there).
• A track record of delivering under constraints — milestones, small teams, competing priorities — without burning the team out.
• Strong judgment on architecture and trade‑offs; you can dive into a design review and add signal.
• Excellent communication across technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Comfort building in a regulated, safety‑critical, AI‑augmented environment.
• Regulated / health software (SaMD, IEC 62304, ISO 14971, HIPAA, FDA pathways).
• Scaling a team from a handful of engineers; standing up hiring and on‑call.
• Hands‑on history with our stack (Python/FastAPI/AWS) or healthcare data (FHIR, wearables).

Additional Information

Clinical Ink is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against otherwise qualified applicants on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, ancestry, age, sex, marital status, national origin, disability or handicap, or veteran status.