Director of Engineering

🍊Our mission 

All new medicines need to undergo clinical trials to show they’re safe and effective. But today’s clinical trial infrastructure is stuck in the past, and the cost of developing new medicines has skyrocketed as a result. Patients have to wait longer and pay more for new treatments. 

Our mission is to fix this; we use software to help innovative companies run faster, more reliable, and patient-friendly clinical trials. We’re still a young company, but we’ve already had a big impact. Since founding the company in March 2021 we’ve helped run over 80 clinical trials involving tens of thousands of patients, with a customer NPS of 100.

We recently raised a $18m Series A round from some great investors including Creandum, Peter Thiel and Firstminute to power the next stage of our growth. 

🍊About the role 

Lindus Health is looking for a Director of Engineering for the team building the platform for the next generation of clinical trials. Join us as our first dedicated engineering leader to scale the team and the product, and bring new treatments to patients faster! This role is ideal for an experienced engineering leader who wants to level up to be a VP as we grow.

This is an onsite role in London with a flexible (hybrid) office arrangement. After an initial onboarding period full-time at our headquarters (near London Bridge) we expect you to be in the office at least 3 days a week. All of your team regularly gets together in the office.

🍊About you 

We’d like to hear from you if…

• You have 3 or more years of experience as a hands-on software engineer working in a team and 5 or more years of experience as a line manager of software engineers

• You are an excellent listener and communicator who motivates people, doesn’t shy away from giving direct feedback and resolves conflicts

• You are product-minded: you want to understand why we are building something to create the best environment for your team to make it happen

• You are able to occasionally do non-critical hands-on coding to keep you grounded in your direct reports’ reality

• You thrive in a startup environment where you can take on lots of different responsibilities and rapidly grow your management and leadership skills

• Bonus: You have experience with engineering in a regulated environment (such as health tech or fintech)

You belong here! If your experience and interests match with some of the above, we want you to apply.

🍊What you’ll focus on

In your first month

• Learn about clinical trials and the problems we are trying to solve through our onboarding training and chats with people across the company

• Meet and get to know the engineers reporting into you (up to 8 software engineers initially)

• Set up a development environment and make a small code change to familiarise yourself with your team’s stack (React, TypeScript, Django, Python, Postgres, Amazon ECS) and ways of working

In your first 3 months

• Take on the personal development plans and performance management for your direct reports

• Act as a hiring manager for new engineering roles, refining and running the hiring process

• Contribute actively to your team’s processes and rituals, such as product planning, retrospectives, release management and backlog grooming

• Use your previous hands-on engineering experience to give input to your team on architecture, planning and estimates

Within your first year

• Nurture and promote a productive environment where all engineers can fail safely, learn and grow

• Collaborate with product management on roadmapping and planning engineering resources

• Become fluent in regulatory frameworks applicable to clinical trials and keep your team’s processes aligned with them

• Represents the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and computerised systems in customer audits and regulatory inspections

• Support your team on cross-functional collaboration and communication, especially with clinical operations

• Take on the line management of further Engineering Managers that you hire based on our needs

• Support the product organisation through further growth such as with resource forecasting, squad organisation, career frameworks

• Represent Lindus Health Engineering externally, such as through talks, meetups and blog posts

🍊What we offer (UK)

• Make an impact across all areas of our business and fix one of the world’s most broken industries 

• Competitive salary, plus meaningful stock options

• Flexible working; we have an incredible office near London Bridge and encourage people to work 3 days per week from the office.

• Unlimited holidays; everyone is encouraged to take off at least 28 days each year

• Health & wellbeing - cashback scheme with Medicash (unlimited virtual GP appointments, medical, dental, optician, physio, mental health + more!)

• Gympass membership; flexible access to gyms, studios, classes and wellness apps

• Enhanced Parental Leave - 12 weeks full pay for primary care giver & 4 weeks full pay for secondary care giver

• Cycle to work scheme

• Regular team events; recently we’ve been to Legoland, a Bake Off competition, and a Millwall FC home game (decided by popular vote)

• Up to £1,000 per year towards courses, certifications and development

• A new laptop as your main workstation 

• UK visa sponsorship if you’re not already eligible to work in the UK

🍊Our hiring process 

• Initial conversation with our CTO, Nik (30 minutes)

• Functional interview 1 with 2 of our Product leaders (60 minutes) 

• Functional interview 2 with 2 of our engineers (60 minutes)

• Culture and values interview with 2 team members (30 minutes)  

• Referencing 

We try to arrange for at-least one interview to be in-person so you can see our office and meet more of the team.