Senior Director, Engineering

Summary

Join Imagine Pediatrics as a Senior Director, Engineering and lead the engineering, QA, Platform, and Dev Ops teams. You will be responsible for executing the technical roadmap, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and mentoring engineering staff. This role requires 12+ years of software development experience, including 6+ years managing engineering teams, preferably at a hypergrowth company. Experience with modern tech stacks (JavaScript, Node, React/React Native) and cloud platforms (AWS preferred) is essential. Imagine Pediatrics offers a competitive salary ($190,000-$230,000), annual bonus, comprehensive benefits package, and equity participation. The company is committed to improving the lives of children with special healthcare needs and values diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.

Requirements

• 12+ years of software development experience; 6+ years of experience managing engineering (preferably multiple teams)
• Prior experience leading the engineering function at a hypergrowth company required, including fostering excellence and team members’ growth
• Experience with modern tech stack (JavaScript, Node, React / React Native) and cloud platforms (AWS preferred)
• Experience with verbal and written communication to stakeholders and leadership around status updates, vendors assessments, budget rationale and decision making

Responsibilities

• Own the execution of the technical roadmap focusing on high quality, timely product development focusing on quality, simplicity and value delivery
• Utilize a forward-thinking, proactive approach to drive innovation and build trust with internal customers
• Deliver cutting-edge enterprise applications and consumer-centered solutions to better enable Imagine Pediatrics to communicate with caregivers and patients
• Proactively lead prototype development to inform the technical roadmap and workshop potential solutions with cross-functional teams
• Perform regular analysis of macro industry factors that influence long and short-term engineering strategy
• Make informed build-versus-buy decisions for critical systems and integrations
• Work closely with our IT and Security leadership on maintaining a strong security posture, following engineering best practices, and collaborating on HITRUST compliance requirements
• Source, vet, and manage vendors and other external resources as appropriate to accomplish short and long-term technical goals
• Provide thought partnership on the development and continual refinement of Imagine Pediatrics’ caregiver-facing product suite
• Leverage relationships with product, operations, and engineering leaders to provide innovative technical solutions to complex business problems, proposing opportunities to improve results based on continuous needs assessment
• Seamlessly partner with product leadership in the scoping, road-mapping, and resource allocation for new and existing products
• Partner with data team to ensure seamless data integration and interoperability throughout the software development process
• Align engineering processes with robust information security practices and healthcare industry regulations (e.g., HIPAA, HITRUST) to safeguard patient data and system integrity
• Lead and mentor both engineering people managers and senior engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration and continuous improvement
• Establish agile development processes to enhance agility and execution
• Provide hands-on guidance when necessary while empowering the team to take ownership
• Develop and utilize a keen understanding of internal teams’ abilities, strengths, and capacity to thoughtfully and efficiently execute our technical roadmap

Preferred Qualifications

Prior experience developing digital products (healthcare or heavily regulated industries experience preferred)

Benefits

• Base salary range of $190,000 - $230,000
• Annual bonus incentive
• Competitive company benefits package
• Eligibility to participate in an employee equity purchase program (as applicable)
• Competitive medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Healthcare and Dependent Care FSA; Company-funded HSA
• 401(k) with 4% match, vested 100% from day one
• Employer-paid short and long-term disability
• Life insurance at 1x annual salary
• 20 days PTO + 10 Company Holidays & 2 Floating Holidays
• Paid new parent leave
• Additional benefits to be detailed in offer