Director of Engineering

Role overview

Set technical direction for engineering across AI, data, platform and personalization, supporting digital experiences that help physicians discover and learn from medical video. You will lead a small, senior team of principal and staff engineers, partnering directly with technology and product leadership to shape priorities and trade-offs. The role calls for a product-minded leader who stays close to architecture and engineering practice while helping grow the organization.

Responsibilities

- Coach senior engineers, establish clear ownership and help them expand their scope and impact. - Develop a shared technical strategy across data, AI, platform and personalization, balancing investment and dependencies across those areas. - Work with Product to shape roadmaps for physician-facing experiences, weighing user needs, business goals, delivery speed and long-term quality. - Advance data work from reporting toward data products, prediction and automation in partnership with analytics colleagues. - Encourage effective AI use throughout software development to improve delivery speed and quality. - Engage in architecture and design reviews, coordinate priorities with engineering colleagues in Europe, establish lightweight operating practices and hire senior talent.

Requirements

- 12 or more years in software engineering, including at least six years in engineering leadership. - Experience directly managing staff or principal engineers and helping experienced individual contributors grow. - Leadership across several areas such as data, machine learning or AI, platform or DevOps, backend engineering, or personalization. - Product engineering experience building and evolving customer-facing software, with a record of connecting technical choices to business outcomes. - Current technical depth to discuss architecture and trade-offs credibly with senior engineers. - Practical experience bringing AI into a team's software development workflows, beyond individual use of coding assistants. - Experience hiring and growing teams, working across countries or time zones, and accommodating regular early-morning meetings with Europe.

Nice to have

- Experience scaling engineering at a startup or growth-stage organization. - Production experience with machine learning, recommendations or personalization. - Familiarity with Python and Django, PostgreSQL, Snowflake or AWS; experience in healthcare, education or content platforms.

Benefits and work setup

- Hybrid schedule with three days each week in an Oakland office: Monday, Wednesday and Friday. - A lean, growing and profitable organization with broad leadership scope and work connected to physician education.