Director of Engineering

The role

You will lead and evolve the engineering craft and act as the operational leader for the platform organization. You will manage teams responsible for infra, devex, security, and data while shaping how engineering scales.

What you will do

• Lead and evolve the overall engineering craft at Tandem
• Push the cutting edge of how agentic engineering enables faster and higher quality delivery
• Improve engineering processes, workflows, tooling, and development practices across teams
• Partner closely with Product, Design, and Engineering leadership to shape how we build products
• Support and mentor engineers and Team Leads through technical guidance and collaboration
• Contribute hands-on when needed across architecture, systems design, or implementation
• Create alignment around technical direction and engineering quality across the company
• Continuously improve systems and practices for 99.99% uptime

Required qualifications

• Strong software engineering experience with deep technical understanding and ability
• A deep passion for the software engineering craft
• 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
• A genuine interest in engineering culture, developer experience, and organization effectiveness
• Ability to create clarity and structure in fast-moving environments
• Pragmatic judgment
• Strong communication skills
• A high level of ownership and long-term thinking around technical quality
• Good skills in deciding when and how to trade of product velocity with tech debt

Nice to have

• Experience building AI-native products
• Experience in healthtech
• Experience shaping an engineering organisation through a high growth scale up phase
• Experience building very high availability software

Benefits

• Competitive salary & company stock options
• 30 days/year of paid vacation
• 5,000 SEK wellness allowance (friskvårdsbidrag) plus an additional 6,000 SEK yearly to spend on other health related initiatives
• Generous Parental leave top-up for new parents
• Private Medical Insurance
• Mental health support through our partner Mindler
• Pension program
• Social and team-building activities (off-sites, after works, winter/summer parties)

Before you apply

• Apply with your CV in English
• Interview process includes a screening interview, hiring manager interview, technical interview, and a working day at the office
• Tandem handles sensitive patient data and will conduct a background check before hiring

About the company

Tandem Health is a fast-scaling health-tech company that reimagines healthcare by putting clinicians first. Their platform is designed by clinicians, for clinicians, with intuitive medical notes and workflows.