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Tandem Health is reimagining healthcare by building a clinician-first platform with intuitive medical notes and workflows. As Director of Engineering, you will serve as both the craft leader and operational leader for the engineering organization.
In this role, you will shape how engineering is done across the company, elevating software quality and shipping velocity while building an environment where great engineers thrive. You'll lead teams responsible for infrastructure, developer experience, security, and data platforms. You'll operate as a strategic leader and hands-on technical contributor, discussing architecture decisions, improving development workflows, establishing engineering standards, and mentoring team leads.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading and evolving overall engineering craft at Tandem
- Pushing the cutting edge of agentic engineering for faster, higher-quality delivery
- Improving engineering processes, workflows, tooling, and development practices
- Partnering with Product, Design, and Engineering leadership on product strategy
- Supporting and mentoring engineers and Team Leads through technical guidance
- Contributing hands-on to architecture, systems design, and implementation as needed
- Creating alignment around technical direction and engineering quality
- Continuously improving systems to ship at high velocity with 99.99% uptime
You'll work primarily from Tandem's Stockholm headquarters in the Epicenter building, collaborating closely with the team to build culture and drive innovation.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Strong software engineering experience with deep technical understanding and ability
- Deep passion for the software engineering craft and solving problems with software
- Experience setting up agentic engineering principles
- Experience leading large technical initiatives, engineering practices, or teams
- Strong systems thinking and ability to balance speed, scalability, and maintainability
- Genuine interest in engineering culture, developer experience, and organizational effectiveness
- Ability to create clarity and structure in fast-moving environments
- Pragmatic judgment about when process helps versus slows teams down
- Strong communication skills and ability to align teams around engineering principles
- High level of ownership and long-term thinking around technical quality
- Good judgment in trading off product velocity with tech debt
BONUS:
- Experience building AI-native products
- Experience in healthtech
- Experience shaping engineering organization through high-growth scale-up phase
- Experience building very high availability software
