Engineering Manager

Lindus Health is looking for an experienced Software Engineering Manager to lead a team building the platform for the next generation of clinical trials. Join us and help us scale the team and the product, and bring new treatments to patients faster! This role is ideal for an early-to-mid career engineering leader who has broad technical knowledge and experience of managing a team of software engineers.

This is an onsite role in London with a flexible (hybrid) office arrangement. After an initial onboarding period full-time at our headquarters (near London Bridge) we expect you to be in the office at least 2 days a week. All of your team regularly gets together in the office.

Requirements

• You have 3 or more years of experience as a hands-on software engineer working in a team and 2 or more years of experience as a line manager of software engineers.
• You are an excellent listener and communicator who motivates people, doesn’t shy away from giving direct feedback and resolves conflicts.
• You are product-minded: you want to understand why we are building something to create the best environment for your team to make it happen.
• You collaborate well with broader teams and functions, and lead your team to deliver high-quality software.
• You are able to occasionally do non-critical hands-on coding to keep you grounded in your direct reports’ reality.
• You thrive in a startup environment where you can take on lots of different responsibilities and rapidly grow your management and leadership skills.
• You have experience with engineering in a regulated environment (such as health tech or fintech).

Responsibilities

• Build your understanding of clinical trials and the problems we are trying to solve through our onboarding training and chats with people across the company.
• Get to know your reports (up to 6-8 software engineers).
• Familiarise yourself with your team’s stack (React, TypeScript, Django, Python, Postgres, Amazon ECS) and ways of working by setting up a development environment and making a small code change.
• Support your reports in their personal development by building a shared understanding of their goals, setting clear expectations, holding them accountable and providing coaching and mentoring.
• Lead and empower your team to deliver high-quality software by understanding user needs, developing effective processes, and supporting your team with prioritisation and risk management.
• Contribute actively to your team’s processes and rituals, such as product planning, retrospectives, release management and backlog grooming.
• Use your previous hands-on engineering experience to give input to your team on architecture, planning and estimates.
• Participate in ongoing engineering recruitment.
• Nurture and promote a productive environment where all engineers can fail safely, learn and grow.
• Collaborate with product management on roadmapping and planning engineering resources.
• Become fluent in regulatory frameworks applicable to clinical trials and keep your team’s processes aligned with them.
• Develop a deep understanding of user needs and ensure they remain central to technical decisions.
• Support your team on cross-functional collaboration and communication, especially with clinical operations.
• Support the product organisation through further growth such as with squad organisation, career frameworks.
• Make an impact across all areas of our business and fix one of the world’s most broken industries.

Company Benefits

• Make an impact across all areas of our business and fix one of the world’s most broken industries
• Competitive salary, plus meaningful stock options
• Flexible working; we have an incredible office near London Bridge and encourage people to work 3 days per week from the office.
• Unlimited holidays; everyone is encouraged to take off at least 28 days each year
• £60 monthly wellness allowance with complete flexibility on how to spend this including opting in to a company private health insurance scheme through AXA, a wellhub membership and more!
• Access to gym and retail discounts through our benefits platform Happl.
• Enhanced Parental Leave - 16 weeks full pay for primary care giver&6 weeks full pay for secondary care giver
• Cycle to work and other salary sacrifice schemes
• Regular whole company and team events, both in person and virtually!
• £1,000 Learning and Development allowance each year to put towards courses, certifications and development
• A well stocked pantry and drinks fridge, Monday breakfast spread and catered team lunch on a Thursday for the UK office every week!
• Regular charity events and fundraising opportunities through our charity partnership with the Forward Trust.