Director of Engineering

Linus Health is a Boston-based digital health company focused on transforming brain health for people across the world. By advancing how we detect, diagnose, and address cognitive and brain disorders – leveraging cutting-edge neuroscience, clinical expertise, and artificial intelligence – our goal is to enable a future where people can live longer, happier, and healthier lives with better brain health.

We are a team of 110+(and growing!), embarking on an exciting period of accelerated growth.  We invite collaborative, self-driven and impact-oriented professionals to join our dynamic and fast-growing team.

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What You’ll do:

• Lead and support development teams within the engineering org, with direct oversight and management responsibilities for Engineering Managers and Engineering resources as needed.
• Establish goals for direct reports, monitoring progress against goals, and participating in the review process
• Foster a spirit of teamwork, cohesiveness, appreciation of diversity, and working effectively together to enable each team member and the engineering organization as a whole to be successful 
• Build and lead the engineering team with a hands on approach and willingness to dive into the code, lead code review’s, etc
• Establish and encourage a culture of growth, innovation and continuous learning
• Establish best practices for software engineering, release, and quality including adherence to agile practices CI/CD, and testing
• Establish roadmaps, track releases, identify dependencies, highlight blockers and report on progress
• Foster an environment that promotes the creation of quality code and meticulous quality control
• Develop, track and monitor engineering metrics data for strategic planning such as scrum velocity
• Support documentation of architecture, compliance, testing, and specific project specifications
• Support product development as needed, mediating engineering discussions to reach consensus on technical direction
• Work cross functionally with product, data science, other engineering teams and more

About You:

• A Computer Science, Physics, Math, Engineering, Business or similar BA/BS degree
• 12-15+ years of software engineering experience
• 5-7+ years of experience leading and supporting software engineering teams, ranging from 3-10 team members
• Strong technical background and familiarity with full stack software development and technologies / languages
• Experience leading and supporting both web and mobile development / application teams
• Effective leadership and interpersonal skills, and a passion for mentoring and developing Individual contributors and teams
• Excellent communication and organization skills
• Proven experience in a early staged growth company where change is frequent

What We Offer:

• As a brain health company, an opportunity to have a lasting impact on the way people and communities engage with brain and mental health, and even to affect the prognosis of people’s mental and brain health trajectory
• A mission-driven environment where all 110+ (and counting) employees strive to exemplify our core values every day
• Competitive compensation packages that include an annual discretionary target bonus incentive as well as valuable equity
• Unlimited PTO — We know this can work both ways, however our leadership team does an excellent job at encouraging people to take PTO
• A sincere and deep appreciation for the importance of mental health. We have recently implemented a “monthly flex day” where employees are encouraged to take time away from work to rest, recharge & reset.
• A peer-to-peer recognition program: Celebrating our employees hard work and success is in our DNA!
• Employee Referral Incentive program

Linus Health is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, genetic information, disability or any characteristic protected by law. We believe that diversity is critical to the growth of our company and understand the importance of fostering an environment where everyone has a voice. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities during the recruiting process. If you are in need of assistance due to a disability, please contact us.