Director of Full Stack Engineering

Butterfly Network, Inc.; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 210,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Life insurance

HSA

401(k) match

Employee stock purchase plan

Flexible PTO

Hybrid work model

Parental leave

Job summary

Butterfly Network, Inc. seeks a seasoned engineering leader to guide the Full Stack Engineering team responsible for our Enterprise Clinical workflows platform. You will lead onshore and offshore engineers, set the technical direction, and own roadmap execution to deliver scalable, secure healthcare software.

You will partner with Product, Design, Data, Security, and Compliance to ensure HIPAA/PHI compliance and high reliability across the platform.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Proven track record leading distributed engineering teams across time zones
• Strong product sense and ability to translate business problems into engineering plans
• Excellent communication and influencing skills with senior leadership

Responsibilities

• Lead, grow, and inspire a high-performing full stack engineering team spanning onshore and offshore
• Define and drive the technical strategy and architecture for the Enterprise Clinical workflows platform
• Own engineering roadmap execution and translate business goals into clear plans
• Recruit, retain, and develop top engineering talent and foster a healthy team culture
• Establish and evolve engineering processes: code review, on-call, incident response, cross-team collaboration
• Serve as senior technical voice, contribute to architecture decisions, evaluate new tech
• Build cross-functional relationships with Product, Design, Data, Security, and Compliance
• Drive observability, operational excellence, and HIPAA/PHI compliance across the platform

Skills

Team leadership

Distributed teams

Product sense

Regulated industries

Communication

Technical leadership

Observability

Education

Bachelors in CS or equivalent

Tools

Docker

ECS

EKS

OpenSearch

WebSockets

GraphQL

Relay

Apollo

URQL

Job description

• We 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

Benefits

• 100% coverage for medical, dental, and vision (flexible buy-up plans with employee contributions)
• Life insurance and disability coverage for you and your family
• HSA for out-of-pocket expenses, plus other pre-tax savings like the Dependent Care Account (DCA)
• Pre-tax or post-tax 401(k) contributions (company match vests immediately)
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Recognition program and other rewards
• Flexible (reasonable) PTO, along with 10 US holidays observed each year
• Birthday PTO
• Hybrid work model for most positions
• Offices designed for collaboration, with comfortable workspaces, stocked kitchens, and opportunities to connect with peers
• Opportunity to build a revolutionary healthcare product and save millions of lives!
• Parental leave and support for employees during pregnancy loss

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experienceProven track record of leading distributed engineering teams, including managing offshore or nearshore teams across multiple time zones6+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3-5 years in engineering management or a senior technical leadership roleStrong product sensibility - ability to translate ambiguous business problems into clear engineering plans and drive execution with minimal directionExcellent communication and influencing skills; comfortable presenting to senior leadership and partnering across functionsDeep understanding of distributed systems, cloud architecture, and full stack web development at scale. Experience hiring, developing, and retaining senior engineering talent; track record of building strong, cohesive teamsExperience leading engineering teams in health tech, medical devices, or other regulated industriesHIPAA, PHI, and PII complianceDesigning and building observability solutions utilizing modern monitoring, logging, and metrics tools Frontend experience with React and TypeScript Opensearch or other Lucene-based search enginesExperience with LLMs and MLOps Containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker, ECS, EKS Web apps with live updates - pub/sub solutions (such as Redis), WebSocketsGraphQL and related frameworks (e.g., Relay, Apollo, URQL)