Engineering Director

The Challenge:

We're looking for an Engineering Director to lead our Patient Health Companion organization, a key initiative helping Doctolib become a daily health companion for 90M people across Europe, enabling everyone to manage their health and wellbeing proactively. You'll oversee 4 engineering teams and their managers, including our flagship Health Companion for Parents of young children, built within the Doctolib app, which helps parents manage their children's appointments, documents, and health journey together.

Reporting to the VP of Engineering, Health Companion, you'll work closely with Medical Excellence (MedEx), Product, Design, and healthcare professionals. You'll join a high-density organization that Doctolib continues to build, bringing together experienced talent across engineering, product, design, and medical expertise.

Your teams will work across:

• An excellent experience for our AI-powered chat, combining medical expertise with artificial intelligence and built around high standards of medical accuracy and safety

• Personalized recommendation systems that deliver relevant health content, guidance, and next steps

• Engaging mobile experiences that make health management intuitive and accessible, including the native mobile foundations described in Rebuilding the Doctolib homepage from WebView to native

• Growth strategies to extend these services across Europe and reach more people through the Doctolib Health Companion

Your Impact:

• Lead and grow a high-performing engineering organization of +25 talents, supporting engineering managers and staff engineers across multiple technical domains

• Drive the technical vision and strategy for our Patient Health Companions, ensuring alignment with Doctolib's broader mission, business, and product goals

• Lead the development of new healthcare experiences including AI-powered chat support, personalized recommendation systems, and intuitive mobile interfaces

• Establish engineering practices and architecture that enable rapid experimentation while maintaining the highest standards of quality, security, and scalability (our platform currently supports 18M documents shared per month and has enabled 40M teleconsultations since launch) 

• Partner with Product, Design, Medical Excellence, and healthcare professionals to ensure our solutions address real health needs while delivering excellent user experiences

• Define and execute acquisition and growth strategies to expand our health companions across Europe

• Shape the future of healthcare technology by building solutions that make healthcare more accessible, personalized, and effective

Your Profile

You're a seasoned engineering leader with a proven track record of building and scaling high-performing teams. You combine technical excellence with strategic vision and have a passion for creating technology that transforms lives.

Core qualifications:

• Leadership excellence: 5+ years of engineering management experience, including managing managers and staff engineers across diverse technical domains

• Team building: Proven ability to recruit, develop, and retain exceptional engineering talent

• Technical depth: Strong foundation in software engineering, distributed systems, and architecture, with the ability to guide technical decisions across mobile and backend systems

• Strategic vision: Ability to translate business objectives into technical roadmaps and align engineering efforts with company strategy

• Healthcare passion: Genuine interest in healthcare innovation and improving patient outcomes through technology

• Growth mindset: Track record of scaling engineering organizations while maintaining culture and quality

• User-centricity: Deep empathy for users and commitment to building products that address their needs

Bonus points for:

• Experience building consumer health products or working in healthcare technology

• Background in AI/ML systems, recommendation engines, or content platforms

• Track record of launching and growing successful mobile applications

• Experience working with medical professionals or in regulated environments

If you're passionate about using technology to transform healthcare and excited about building and managing high-performing teams, we want to hear from you.

What we offer 

• Competitive salary with equity equity participation ("BSPCE")

• Relocation package available for candidates moving to Paris

• Free comprehensive health insurance for you and your children

• Parent Care Program: receive one additional month of leave on top of the legal parental leave

• Free mental health and coaching services through our partner Moka.care

• For caregivers and workers with disabilities, a package including an adaptation of the remote policy, extra days off for medical reasons, and psychological support

• Work from abroad for up to 10 days per year thanks to our flexibility days policy

• Work Council subsidy to refund part of sport club membership or creative class

• Up to 14 days of RTT

• Lunch voucher with Swile card

Job details 

• Permanent position

• Full-time

• Paris, France

• Start date: as soon as possible

• Working mode: hybrid

The interview process 

• Engagement call with the Hiring Manager

• System Design Interview

• Behavioral Interview

• Business Case

• Discussion with our CTO

• At least 3 reference checks

• Offer!

 If you would like to find out more about tech life at Doctolib, feel free to read our latest Medium blog articles!      

At Doctolib, we are committed to improving access to healthcare for everyone. This translates into our recruitment process. We evaluate candidates based solely on qualifications and motivation, without any form of discrimination. The more diverse ideas are heard, the more our product will truly improve healthcare for all. You are welcome to apply to Doctolib, regardless of your gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, ethnicity, disability. To ensure equal opportunities, we invite you to exclude personal information (e.g. pictures, age) from your applications. If you require any accommodation, please let us know for support during the hiring process.  Join us in building the healthcare we all dream of! All information provided is processed by Doctolib for application management. For data processing details, click here.  Please contact hr.dataprivacy(at)doctolib.com for inquiries or to exercise your rights.