Director, Software Engineering

Paradigm Health is focused on transforming the clinical research ecosystem to ensure equitable access to trials for all patients. The Director of Software Engineering will lead eSource engineering initiatives, drive product delivery, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance the technology roadmap while ensuring a high-quality user experience.

Responsibilities:

• Drive Quarterly Roadmap and evolution of the Study Conduct product, working closely with product and business stakeholders. Focus on high value features such as automation and AI that will drive efficiency in drug discovery and development
• Scale the product from 1-2 and beyond as we onboard enterprise level customers both in the US and internationally
• Work with product to define how team budget is being used, and provide recommendations for acceleration of additional budget
• Build a high performing team to deliver on the roadmap, providing timely feedback with regular 1x1s
• Manage a team of 13+ full time and contractors and set expectations to create a psychologically safe environment while setting a high bar
• Hire the best talent - you know what great talent looks like and look to bring that onto the team
• Responsible for reporting status, removing blockers, and driving delivery of the roadmap goals
• Manage appropriate expectations upwards so leadership is aware of potential impacts
• Define technology roadmap for the team, and work with product to layer in opportunities to develop the roadmap
• Understand the technology, architecture and components of systems in your team to drive effective planning, design and code review
• Partner with staff engineers to fill in gaps - you don’t know everything, but you know who to go to make sure your team has the best help

Requirements:

• 12 years of experience working in Software Engineering / Management at B2B SaaS companies
• 4+ years of people management experience (ideally a team of 3-10 engineers)
• Have a product mindset in approach to development
• Experience working inside a start-up environment, having brought a product from early stage to product market fit OR developing new product to extend platform capabilities
• You care about growing your team members to be the best possible versions of themselves
• Prior experience building B2B SaaS products in Java, REACT, Python, SQL, AWS environments (or similar)
• Experience implementing a quality mindset and framework into development processes with your scrum teams to build, deploy, and support a live SaaS product