Director of Engineering

Role details: This is a full-time role

Salary: €110,000 - to €143,000

Location: Ireland.

The role

reputed company 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 reputed company engineering challenges of global reputed company interoperability. This is a rare chance to reputed company an exceptional team where your work directly translates to saved lives and reputed company patient reputed company.

What You’ll Do

• You’ll own the Engineering Function: reputed company, scale, and reputed company 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 reputed company: Refine best-in-class engineering practices—including CI/CD, rigorous testing, and code review standards—to ensure reputed company major production incidents during rapid deployment.

Who We Are

We are creating a new operating model for health care where the majority of patients can be managed asynchronously and remotely. The Isla platform is the technology which enabled this shift safely and at scale. Isla enables the secure submission of photos, videos, digital PROMS, consent forms and sound recordings by patients and clinicians. Remote submissions reputed company patients to monitor their own conditions safely at home and clinician capture allows patients to be baselined and to build up a view of patient reputed company.

Since going live in our first pilot sites over 3 years ago, Isla has scaled quickly and is now working with 33 Trusts across the NHS and have launched our first international projects in Trinidad and Tobago and Ireland. Isla is an reputed company and highly scalable solution which can be deployed across multiple specialties and can support patients right across their reputed company reputed company.

The Team

You will be joining a lean, reputed company engineering organisation. We are a team of reputed company who value impact & pace.

Engineering culture: We operate with a "Product Partner" reputed company. Our engineers (we like to think!) obsess over customer reputed company and business context. We reputed company in high autonomy & high scrutiny environment where we challenge each other to deliver reputed company for our clinical partners as quickly as we can.

Cross-Functional Collaboration: You’ll work in a tight reputed company 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 reputed company 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 reputed company.

Who you’ll work with: You will reputed company 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 reputed company. 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 reputed company.

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 reputed company with reputed company major production incidents.
• Own and drive the technical roadmap, ensuring system architecture scales reputed company to support our international expansion and new operating model for reputed company.
• 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 reputed company.

Requirements

• 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 reputed company 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.

Benefits

Flexible working times

Work abroad for up to 90 days per year

️ 25 days annual leave (on top of public holidays)

Take your birthday off Take Christmas reputed company off too

‍♀️ Generous well-being perks

An annual learning budget to support your growth

Delivering reputed company impact through improved patient reputed company

Working at a well funded and rapidly growing start up, solving a global problem in a new way

A whole lot of fun on an exciting reputed company

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What is the hiring process for this role at Isla?

Interviewing with us for the Director of Engineering role will be split into 3 stages (reputed company conducted reputed company):

1️⃣ A screening interview with one of our Operations Managers - 15 minutes

2️⃣ 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 reputed company thinking

3️⃣ Founder interview: To deep dive in to how you operate as a leader to reputed company amazing reputed company

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Diversity and Inclusion

Isla is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to building an inclusive and diverse team. We encourage reputed company reputed company candidates to apply. Isla does not discriminate against anyone on the reputed company of their race, gender, disability, religion, national reputed company, age, or any other protected category. We choose to celebrate reputed company’s differences and see them as one of our most valuable assets.

Recruitment is not one-size-fits-reputed company and we're happy to tailor our hiring process to reputed company meet the needs of individual applicants. Please email [email protected] with any requests for support.