Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Ada, a company pioneering AI in healthcare, as an Engineering Manager to lead the "Navigation" team. You will manage and grow a team of engineers, building a new navigation product leveraging LLMs and Ada's clinical AI. This role requires collaboration with various teams, defining technical strategy, and ensuring high-quality, scalable solutions. You'll need experience leading engineering teams, expertise in software architecture, and knowledge of our tech stack. We offer a fully remote working model (UK/Germany), flexible hours, and various benefits including health insurance, paid time off, and professional development opportunities.

Requirements

• 3 years' + experience of leading engineering teams (including those in remote locations), inspiring them to greater performance
• Several years' experience contributing to scalable platform and software architectures, including best-practice design principles
• Strong background either in backend development or in component-based frontend architectures (e.g. micro frontends)
• Good knowledge of our tech stack: Kotlin, Spring Boot, MongoDB, Kubernetes, Typescript, and common cloud platforms
• You know and care about engineering practices like continuous integration, automated testing, shared code ownership and operational excellence
• You have a track record of delivery and owning projects end to end: design it, build it and run it
• Excellent communication, influencing and interpersonal skills
• You have contributed to engineering guidelines and processes and have experience in developing or integrating healthcare solutions
• Expertise in agile development (Scrum or Kanban), have an agile mindset, and are skilled in resource planning, risk and dependency management and stakeholder communication

Responsibilities

• Manage, lead and grow a team of engineers and quality engineers to ensure the delivery of high-quality, scalable software solutions
• Partner with product managers, solution architects and other cross-functional teams to define and implement technical concepts and designs
• Assess technical risk and identify system design flaws to ensure the reliability of our products
• Provide architectural and design guidance to ensure scalable and maintainable systems
• Foster a collaborative and innovative engineering culture that promotes continuous improvement
• Drive the adoption of best practices in software development, quality and operational excellence
• Guarantee the quality of deliveries and compliance by contributing to our standards and processes and help document these
• Interview and recruit top talent to support our engineering team’s growth
• Build and maintain strong relationships with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless collaboration and project success
• Have a servant-leadership mindset, you will lead by example and actively contribute to a positive engineering culture at Ada
• Bring a “you build it, you run it” mindset, ideally with the ability to support in an on-call capacity

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in healthcare or another regulated industry is a big plus

Benefits

• Flexible working hours to maintain a healthy work/life balance
• 28 days holiday, plus bank holidays to unplug, rest and recharge for our UK employees (30 days plus public holidays in Germany)
• Corporate health insurance and pension scheme (UK)
• Support to set up your home office space, with the option for a co-working space subscription for our remote employees
• Parental benefits (Plus Nursery Benefits for the UK)
• Employee Assistance Programs to help you look after your emotional wellbeing and deal with life’s challenges
• Stay active and healthy with a discounted ClassPass membership (or Urban Sports Club membership for our employees in Germany)
• Bike Leasing Scheme (Germany)
• Online Academy for learning and development opportunities