Director of Engineering, ISLA
€110-143k
Empowering clinicians to streamline healthcare delivery
Open for applications
Empowering clinicians to streamline healthcare delivery
21-100 employees
Open for applications
€110-143k
21-100 employees
Company mission
To be a powerful digital pathway platform for healthcare providers to support patients throughout their care journey.
Role
Who you are
- Proven work experience as an engineering leader
- A fierce focus on quality and execution, ensuring that the team continues to operate at a high level
- A deep technical understanding across (ideally both, but at least one of) Angular & GCP to support strategic technical decision making
- We appreciate you might not meet all of the requirements for this position
- If your experience looks somewhat different to the requirements in the job spec but you think you can bring value to this role, we’d love to hear from you
What the job involves
- Healthcare is one of the hardest markets to crack, but we are doing it
- We’ve doubled our activity year-on-year for the last 3 years because our platform delivers exceptional impact in every single implementation
- As we scale internationally, we are looking for an Engineering leader to help us navigate the complex engineering challenges of global healthcare interoperability
- This is a rare chance to lead an exceptional team where your work directly translates to saved lives and better patient outcomes
- You’ll own the Engineering Function: Lead, scale, and inspire the entire engineering team, driving a high-performance culture that balances aggressive weekly delivery with uncompromising quality
- Plan for scale: Strategically plan and execute a technology roadmap that maintains system stability and performance as we continue to double our activity year-over-year
- Drive technical strategy: Act as a proactive product partner, aligning technical execution with business objectives to support our rapid expansion into the NHS and international markets
- Embed operational excellence: Refine best-in-class engineering practices—including CI/CD, rigorous testing, and code review standards—to ensure zero major production incidents during rapid deployment
- You will be joining a lean, elite engineering organisation. We are a team of builders who value impact & pace
- Engineering culture: We operate with a "Product Partner" mindset. Our engineers (we like to think!) obsess over customer outcomes and business context
- We believe in high autonomy & high scrutiny environment where we challenge each other to deliver outcomes for our clinical partners as quickly as we can
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: You’ll work in a tight loop with our Product, Design, Clinical, and Growth teams
- Our tech & tools: We lean into modern, scalable infrastructure that allows us to maintain 100% YoY growth
- We prioritise tools that enable velocity (leaning in to AI workflows as much as we can) and reliability, ensuring that every line of code moves us closer to transforming global health pathways
- Who you’ll work with: You will lead a talented group of 3 EMs, each running their own team
- As the Director, you will report into the cofounder CTO along with our existing DIrectors of Product & Design respectively
- You will join a leadership team that is deeply committed to technical excellence
- You’ll be surrounded by teammates who have come from high-growth environments and are here because they want to solve the hardest problems in healthcare
- Over the next 12 months you will:
- Refine and embed engineering practices (e.g., CI/CD, testing, code review standards) to deliver product features at an aggressive cadence with zero major production incidents
- Own and drive the technical roadmap, ensuring system architecture scales efficiently to support our international expansion and new operating model for healthcare
- Work with our EMs to map our product roadmap into technical plans to ensure a technical infrastructure which allows us to scale & iterate quickly
- Scale the team’s impact, either through hiring or investing in tools & professional development to allow the team to flourish
Application process
- Interviewing with us for the Director of Engineering role will be split into 3 stages (all conducted virtually):
- A screening interview with one of our Operations Managers - 15 minutes
- A technical strategy deep dive: We will run through a scenario to challenge you on your decision making, the speed of your technical understanding, your communication and your out-of-the-box thinking
- Founder interview: To deep dive in to how you operate as a leader to achieve amazing outcomes
Our take
Isla wants to empower healthcare professionals by allowing them to use visual data—photos and videos of patients—by securely recording this data to a medical professional's smartphone.
The ambitious startup has partnered with the Central London Community Healthcare Trust and the NHS, successfully supporting various NHS trusts on their digitisation journey. Isla will focus on leveraging visual data to improve end-of-life care and dermatology services. Additionally, the company has added an Impact page to its website, showcasing evidence of Isla's benefits.
Now that a case can be made for visual health data flows being helpful, the company's platform could see even wider adoption. Once sufficiently high-quality data sets have been collected, Isla can use the visual data, provided with patient consent, to inform medical practice more generally.
The next few years at Isla should be interesting as the company is looking to replicate the operation of its product across several hospitals and healthcare facilities. Isla's end game is to be fully integrated into all incumbent Patient Administration Systems to make the platform seamless for clinicians.
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Company benefits
- 🏡 Work from home or at our office in Moorgate 🏢
- 🏖️ 25 days annual leave (on top of bank holidays)
- 🎂 Take your birthday off
- 🎄 Take Christmas Eve off too
- 🕜 Flexible working times
- 🧘♀️ A monthly wellbeing bonus (£50 per month to spend on gym membership or wellbeing activities)
- 🍜 £75 every quarter to treat friend/family to a meal
- 📈 Equity options available
- 📚 Regular learning sessions
- 🎉 Enhanced parental leave (12 weeks fully paid leave for primary care givers and 4 weeks fully paid leave for secondary care givers on top of the statutory leave)
- ❤️🩹 Enhanced health leave
- 💗 Delivering social impact through improved patient healthcare
- 🎇 A whole lot of fun on an exciting journey
- 💡 Working at a well funded and rapidly growing start up, solving a global problem in a new way
- 🌍 Work abroad for up to 90 days a year
- 🐾 Dog friendly office
Company values
- Look back proudly - We deliver excellence & act with integrity, every time
- Race forward - The need for change in healthcare delivery is urgent. We challenge ourselves to set a fast pace in all that we do and encourage ambition within our team and with our customers
- Laugh along the way - We recognise the impact that we are having in the world, and enjoy the process of making that happen, however tough that is
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
James Jurkiewicz
(Co-Founder & CTO)Oxford Engineering alum with healthcare consulting experience at Newton Europe and start-up experience at Onfido.
Peter Hansell
(Co-Founder)Worked in healthcare consulting as a Senior Consultant at Newton Europe and then at DrDoctor.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at ISLA
- At Isla, we believe that embracing diverse perspectives leads to innovation, creativity, and better business outcomes.
- We know that diverse teams work better. It's simple: when people from a wide range of backgrounds come together, they bring unique ideas, insights and problem-solving approaches. Diversity challenges conventional thinking, encourages collaboration, and fuels innovation. This diversity of thought creates a dynamic environment where ideas flourish, and we can deliver an exceptional product to our users.
- We are committed to placing DE&I at the forefront of our hiring and operational thinking. We actively seek out individuals from all walks of life, irrespective of their gender, race, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, or abilities. We believe that diversity should not only be celebrated but embraced.
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