Director of Engineering, HeartFlow
Customer Workflow
$220-290k
+ Bonus + Stock options
3 days a week in office
Medical equipment manufacturing
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Medical equipment manufacturing
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$220-290k
+ Bonus + Stock options
3 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To save lives, improve the patient experience and reduce the overall costs of care.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate has a strong background in building and scaling engineering organizations, driving team planning and delivery, and ensuring the technical and operational excellence required in a regulated healthcare environment
- Proven experience managing managers and leading multiple engineering teams in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment
- Track record of successful planning, consistent execution, and on-time delivery of complex software projects
- Strong leadership and organizational skills with an ability to align engineering outcomes to business priorities
- Technical depth in full-stack and distributed system design, with hands-on experience in cloud-native development (preferably AWS)
- Familiarity with relevant technologies: Python, Django, FastAPI, JavaScript, TypeScript, Vue.js, SQL and noSQL databases
- Deep understanding of healthcare interoperability standards (DICOM, HL7, FHIR) and integration with clinical systems (PACS, EMR)
- Excellent communication skills and cross-functional collaboration abilities
- Experience working in regulated healthcare, medical devices, or similarly rigorous domains is highly desirable
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field; advanced degree preferred
- 8+ years of relevant software engineering experience, including developing and operating customer-facing systems
- 5+ years in engineering leadership, with at least 3 years managing engineering managers and growing multi-team organizations
- Experience delivering clinical or workflow solutions for healthcare providers is a strong plus
What the job involves
- The Director, Engineering – Customer Workflow will lead several engineering teams responsible for Heartflow’s customer-facing workflow systems
- These systems are core to the customer experience—from secure CCTA image ingestion and DICOM transfers, to EMR and PACS integration, to enabling access to Heartflow’s core products: Roadmap, FFRct, and Plaque Analysis
- This role is responsible for leading through engineering managers, scaling high-performing teams, and driving both the strategic direction and operational execution of our customer workflow platform
- This leader will oversee engineering managers and technical teams focused on integrating with hospital IT systems (PACS, EMR/EHR), managing secure ingestion of CCTA imaging (via DICOM), and delivering intuitive web-based tools for case management
- Lead and grow multiple engineering teams through engineering managers, setting clear goals and ensuring alignment to strategic objectives
- Drive successful quarterly and long-range planning efforts, balancing innovation with execution, and ensuring engineering teams consistently meet delivery commitments
- Ensure engineering teams are executing with high quality, predictable velocity, and attention to operational reliability
- Hire, develop, and retain strong engineering and management talent; build an inclusive, high-performance team culture
- Own the architecture and delivery of critical systems for image ingestion, data interoperability (DICOM, HL7, FHIR), and customer-facing workflow tools
- Oversee the design and development of secure, scalable web applications that enable customers to request analyses and view interactive results
- Collaborate closely with Product, Design, Clinical, and Customer Success teams to shape features and solutions that address real-world clinical workflow needs
- Ensure systems meet the requirements of privacy, security, and regulatory compliance, and follow best practices in deployment, monitoring, and incident response
- Partner with peer engineering leaders to evolve shared architecture, tools, and best practices across the broader organization
Our take
HeartFlow was founded in 2007 and is a medical equipment manufacturer that uses CT-scanned 3D modelling to assess and analyze a patient's arteries. This noninvasive process can help assess the risks of heart disease and strategize the appropriate treatment.
HeartFlow has had a long history of awards and innovations. In 2021, it brought its technology to the NHS in England and in October 2022, introduced a plaque analysis service. As time has gone on, Heartflow has indicated that it is keeping up with technological advances and finding new ways to provide heart health services through them.
HeartFlow successfully launched its IPO in 2021 but faced a setback when its merger with Longview Acquisitions was called off in 2022 due to unfavourable market conditions. Despite this, the company has made a strong comeback and recently unveiled its next-generation plaque analysis AI, demonstrating its continued commitment to innovation and growth.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 11 rounds)
Mar 2025
$98m
CONVERTIBLE
Apr 2023
$215m
SERIES F
Total funding: $980.6m
Company benefits
- Medical, Dental, Health (90% of premium paid by HeartFlow)
- Stock options to all employees
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Lounge featuring collaboration space, pinball, foosball, and ping pong
- Free snacks and drinks and subsidized health food
- Friday run/walk program - get fit, socialize and earn rewards
- Events throughout the year: Ironman competition, blood drive, sports league play (kickball, beach volleyball, etc), waffle bar, BBQs, biometrics assessment, and more!
Company HQ
Old Mountain View, Mountain View, CA
Leadership
John Farquhar
(CEO)Joined HeartFlow in 2021 as the President and Chief Operating Officer and became the CEO in 2022. Prior to this, they were the VP and General Manager at Medtronic. They also spent 5 years as a Professional Football Player in the NFL.
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