Head of Software Engineering

Summary

Lead and scale a software organization at a medical-device company from lean team to commercial scale, reporting to VP of R&D. Responsibilities include hiring and mentoring engineers, establishing coding standards and workflows, translating executive vision into technical strategy and roadmaps, staying hands-on with prototyping and code review, and coordinating across hardware, data science, regulatory, and executive functions. Requires 10–15+ years in software development with 5+ years managing technical teams, experience shipping mobile apps and cloud backends for connected devices, regulated-industry background (medical device preferred), and fluency in modern DevOps, CI/CD, and automation testing.