Engineering Manager

🍊Our mission

All new medicines need to undergo clinical trials to show they’re safe and effective. But today’s clinical trial infrastructure is stuck in the past, and the cost of developing new medicines has skyrocketed as a result. Patients have to wait longer and pay more for new treatments.

Our mission is to fix this; we use software to help innovative companies run faster, more reliable, and patient-friendly clinical trials. We’re still a young company, but we’ve already had a big impact. Since founding the company in March 2021 we’ve helped run over 100 clinical trials involving tens of thousands of patients, with a customer NPS of 100.

We recently raised a $55m Series B round from Balderton Capital, with support from Creandum, Firstminute, Seedcamp, and Visionaries.

🍊About the role

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.

🍊About you

We’d like to hear from you if…

• 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

• Bonus: You have experience with engineering in a regulated environment (such as health tech or fintech)

You belong here! If your experience and interests match with some of the above, we want you to apply.

🍊What you’ll focus on

In your first month

• 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

In your first 3 months

• 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

Within your first year

• 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 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

🍊What we offer (UK)

• 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, which you can spend on our company health insurance scheme through AXA, a wellhub membership, or wellness activities and expenses of your choice!

• Enhanced Parental Leave: 16 weeks full pay for primary caregiver and 6 weeks full pay for secondary caregiver

• £1,000 Learning and Development allowance each year to put towards courses, certifications, and development

• Regular whole company and team events, both in person and virtually.

• Access to gym and retail discounts through our benefits platform Happl

• A well-stocked pantry and drinks fridge, Monday breakfast spread and catered team lunch on a Thursday for the UK office every week!

• Cycle-to-work scheme and other salary sacrifice options available

• Charity events and fundraising opportunities through our charity partnership with the Forward Trust

🍊Our hiring process

• Initial conversation with Gina, Talent Partner (30 minutes)

• Functional interview 1, with 2 of our Product leaders (60 minutes)

• Functional interview 2, with 2 of our engineers (60 minutes)

• Values interview with 2 team members (30 minutes)

• Referencing

We try to arrange for at-least one interview to be in-person so you can see our office and meet more of the team.