Responsibilities:

As a Head of Engineering, you will:

• Lead, mentor, and grow the engineering team, fostering a culture of excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Create a strategy to ensure the attraction and retention of great talent to build a high performance team
• Collaborate with the CTO to define and implement engineering strategies that align with the company’s vision and objectives.
• Oversee the development lifecycle of our health tech solutions, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within scope, and to the highest quality standards.
• Work closely with Product team to translate business needs into robust, scalable, and secure technical solutions.
• Ensure the engineering team’s work aligns with industry best practices and regulatory requirements specific to healthcare technology.
• Mentor and develop team members, including conducting performance reviews, setting objectives, and supporting career growth and opportunities.
• Manage resource allocation and project prioritisation, ensuring efficient use of team capacity.
• Drive technical decisions and be accountable for the architectural choices and technical debt.
• Drive the adoption of best practices in coding, testing, and maintenance and ensure documentation is well managed.
• Champion an agile and DevOps culture, promoting automation, continuous integration, and continuous delivery practices.
• Act as a key stakeholder in cross-functional teams, collaborating with other departments to achieve broader company goals.

Requirements:

To be considered for this role, here are the skills we’re looking for:

• Previous experience as an Engineering Lead/Manager or similar role, preferably in a Scale-up company;
• Experience managing Engineering Teams with 8-20 people;
• Software development background;
• Fluency in English, spoken and written;
• Analytical skills to evaluate information carefully
• Communication skills for the team management role and contact with stakeholders;
• Focus on detail skills in order to prevent major problems;
• Organizational skills for keeping track of different processes simultaneously (budgets, employees, and schedules)

About the company:

Knok is the answer for a world where everyone has timely access to quality care. Through a Digital Front Door strategy, we connect patients, providers and healthcare professionals in one place.

ISO 27001 certified Recognised as #3 in Deloitte’s Technology. Fast 50 2023 Portugal list Proud supplier of the G-cloud 13 Framework. Top 10 Telemedicine Solution Providers in 2021 by Healthcare Tech Outlook.

At Knok, we dare to lead and humanize the digital transformation of healthcare. We envision a world where everyone has timely access to quality healthcare through digital technology, creating a more equal society. We genuinely believe in it and you can recognize it in every person who embraces this mission. We are rapidly growing, delivering augmented telemedicine on 4 continents, and we have barely begun!