Über diese Director of Engineering Stelle bei Tandem Health
Build something monumental for Healthcare!
At Tandem Health we’re reimagining healthcare by putting clinicians first. Our platform - designed by clinicians, for clinicians - is built on deep insight into real-world pain points, with intuitive medical notes and workflows that truly support patient care.
We’re a fast-scaling health-tech company backed by top investors and expanding globally. We move fast, stay curious, and believe building something that matters starts with an extraordinary team. If you're passionate about impact and innovation, we'd love to meet you!
About the Role
As Director of Engineering at Tandem, you’ll be responsible for shaping and evolving how engineering is done across the company. You’ll be the craft leader for engineering across the entire organisation, as well as the operational leader of the platform org.
Being the craft leader for engineering means you’ll be elevating how we build and ship software. Ensuring our practices and processes deliver high quality software at a rapid pace, and build an environment where great engineers can do their life’s work. And as the operational leader of the platform org you’ll lead the teams responsible for infra, devex, security and data, with the operational mandate do build out the needed platform.
We’re looking for someone who genuinely cares about engineering culture and long-term technical quality. Someone who thinks deeply about developer experience, systems design, engineering velocity, and organizational effectiveness - without defaulting to heavyweight processes or unnecessary bureaucracy.
You’ll operate as both a strategic engineering leader and a hands-on technical contributor when needed. Some days that means discussing architecture decisions with engineers or improving development workflows. Other days it means helping teams align on engineering standards, improving technical execution across the organization, shaping how AI changes the way modern engineering teams operate, or helping the team leads in your organisation grow.
You’ve experienced the immense value that agentic engineering brings, but have no tolerance for slop - and want to build out the systems that enable extreme quality with agentic engineering.
This role is a great fit for someone who has progressed quickly in their career, enjoys creating clarity and strong engineering environments, and wants to have a significant impact on how engineering scales at a fast-growing AI company.
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 our systems and practices such that we can ship at high velocity with 99.99% uptime
What You Bring
Strong software engineering experience with deep technical understanding and ability
A deep passion for the software engineering craft, you can’t stop yourself from using software to solve problems
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 - you know when process helps and when it slows teams down
Strong communication skills and ability to align teams around common engineering principles
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
Bonus Points
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
Location
We believe the best ideas happen when we’re together. This role is based in our vibrant HQ at Kungsgatan 12-14 in the heart of Stockholm where you will work primarily from our office to collaborate, connect, and build our culture.
How to Apply
We adopt a continuous selection process, so please make sure to apply with your CV in English.
Our interview process consists of 4 stages:
Screening interview with Talent Acquisition
Hiring Manager interview with our CTO
Technical Interview with 2 of our engineers
Working day at the office - Join us in the Stockholm office for a case, lunch and a presentation to experience our our culture firsthand, collaborate with our team, and see how you work in action.
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 to stay healthy
Mental health support through our partner Mindler
Pension program
Social and team-building activities (off-sites, after works, winter/summer parties)
An opportunity to make a real positive impact in the world of healthcare
Work with some of the best minds in AI, healthcare, and engineering.
We review our benefits packages on a regular basis and might modify our benefits from time to time.
Culture at Tandem
At Tandem, we move fast, think big, and take ownership. We're a high-performing, diverse team with a shared drive to change the future of healthcare - and we’re just getting started.
Our culture is built on action, ambition, and learning. You'll be trusted to take the lead, challenge yourself, and make an impact from day one. We believe real growth happens when you're stretched, supported, and surrounded by smart, passionate teammates who want to win together.
Even though we’re spread across countries, we come together often in Sweden for team meetings, social events, and offsites - blending global reach with real human connection.
We hire for talent, potential, and attitude - valuing different backgrounds and fresh perspectives. Great ideas come from everywhere, and we’re building a team that reflects the world we want to change.
Tandem handles sensitive patient data and will conduct a background check before hiring any candidate.