About this opportunity
Bios Life lists this Director of Engineering, Application Platform opportunity in cambridge, Massachusetts. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Boston/Cambridge, MA | Hybrid: 3 days onsite / 2 days remote
70% Hands-On Engineering | 30% People Leadership
We are seeking a highly technical Director of Engineering to lead our Application Platform team while remaining deeply involved in hands-on software development.
This is not a traditional hands-off management role. The ideal candidate is currently a Principal Engineer who has some experience managing developers.
Approximately 70% of your time will be spent writing production code, solving complex technical problems, contributing to architecture, debugging, and delivering software. The remaining 30% will focus on managing, mentoring, hiring, and developing a small, high-performing engineering team.
You will work closely with Product, Clinical Data, Infrastructure, and other engineering teams to build and scale web and mobile applications in a fast-moving healthcare technology environment.
What You'll Do:
Remain hands-on with production software development, architecture, implementation, debugging, testing, and technical delivery.
Lead, mentor, and develop a small team of experienced engineers.
Provide technical leadership across backend services, APIs, distributed systems, and cloud-native applications.
Partner with Product and Staff Engineers to translate evolving requirements into scalable, maintainable systems.
Improve engineering practices around testing, CI/CD, observability, reliability, and production operations.
Help scale the engineering organization through hiring, mentorship, and development of future technical leaders.
Encourage effective use of AI-assisted development tools and automation while maintaining high standards for software quality and maintainability.
What We're Looking For:
10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with deep and recent hands-on development experience.
5+ years of engineering leadership, team leadership, or people management experience, ideally within startup, early-stage, or high-growth environments.
Strong hands-on development experience with Python.
Experience building mobile applications using React Native or comparable cross-platform technologies.
Strong backend engineering experience involving APIs, distributed systems, and cloud-native architectures.
Demonstrated ability to continue writing and shipping production software while managing and mentoring engineers.
Experience contributing directly to architecture, code reviews, testing, debugging, and production delivery.
Strong technical judgment and the ability to balance speed, scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
Strongly Preferred:
Experience in healthcare, digital health, health technology, life sciences, or another regulated industry.
Familiarity with HIPAA, healthcare workflows, clinical data systems, interoperability, or sensitive healthcare data.
Experience with AI-assisted engineering tools, AI-enabled products, agentic systems, or engineering automation.
Experience scaling engineering teams, systems, and practices in an early-stage or rapidly growing organization.
Location & Work Authorization:
Candidates must be located in the Boston/Cambridge area and able to work onsite three days per week.
Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future employer-sponsored immigration support. We are unable to sponsor employment visas for this position.
No agencies, third-party recruiters, or staffing firms, please.
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Worksite address
cambridge, MA, 02140, US
Who can apply
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