Engineering Director - Paris (x/f/m)

Who we are

Since 2013, Doctolib is a mission-driven company that builds the healthcare we all dream of.

We have 2,800 employees across France, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands.

We improve the daily life of more than 400,000 health professionals by providing them one of the most advanced technology platforms in the world. We help them to provide the best care possible to their patients, have a better working life and grow their revenues. We are reshaping the way they work and provide care. 

We also help more than 80 million patients to have better access to care, receive the best care possible from their health professionals and take care of their own health. We are the largest health application in Europe. 

What you’ll do

As a Director of Engineering, you will join Doctolib's engineering team to solve complex challenges while developing core platform components that ensure a successful tech & product transformation to deliver an ambitious product roadmap. Your main objective is to build and drive tools for developers at Doctolib to make the modularization process a success. 

Your main duties will include:

• Lead Infrastructure & Reliability Engineering Strategy: Drive the infrastructure strategy to enhance developer experience, while exceeding security, performance, and scalability requirements needed to maintain our position as the most trusted e-health SaaS.
• Strategic Partnership: Collaborate closely with tech and product leaders to define and execute the strategy and planning of Doctolib’s complex technology roadmap.
• Collaborative Leadership: Work with tech and product teams, influencing decision-making within senior-level audiences.
• Incident Management Excellence: Implement proactive monitoring to ensure reliability for all users, have effective response protocols, and hold post-incident reviews. 
• Technical Strategy Execution: Translate company objectives into technical decisions and prioritize work to deliver on key project timelines.
• Team Leadership & Development: Lead, train, and recruit a high-performing platform engineering team while delivering positive team engagement scores.
• User-Centric Approach: Build and lead a team that delivers best-in-class internal and external user satisfaction.
• Continuous Improvement: Drive continuous process improvements for managing, documenting, staffing, and reviewing engineering projects and services.

Who you are

• You have at least 15+ years of software engineering experience with 6+ years of experience leading a large distributed product development team, ideally in SaaS environment
• You have experience scaling a technical organization, while implementing best-in-class development methodologies to build multi-product and multi-country systems 
• You have experience building and driving tools for developers that create reliable, scalable, and secured products 
• You think critically and objectively with a solutions-oriented approach

• You are able to facilitate organizational change, adapt in a changing environment, and make quick decisions aligned with business needs
• You are an effective communicator with the ability to translate technical decisions to tech teams and key stakeholders

• You recognize yourself in Doctolib's leadership principles
• You have an entrepreneurial mindset with the ambition to transform the healthcare sector
• You are comfortable speaking English in your day-to-day interactions with the team; French fluency is a plus

What we offer

• Free health insurance for you and your children
• Parent Care Program: receive one additional month of leave on top of the legal parental leave
• Free mental health and coaching services through our partner Moka.care
• For caregivers and workers with disabilities, a package including an adaptation of the remote policy, extra days off for medical reasons, and psychological support
• Work from EU countries and the UK for up to 10 days per year, thanks to our flexibility days policy
• Work Council subsidy to refund part of sport club membership or creative class
• Up to 14 days of RTT
• A subsidy from the work council to refund part of the membership to a sport club or a creative class 
• Lunch voucher with Swile card

If you would like to find out more about tech life at Doctolib, feel free to read our latest Medium blog articles! 

At Doctolib, we are committed to improving access to healthcare for everyone. This translates into our recruitment process. We evaluate candidates based solely on qualifications and motivation, without any form of discrimination.

The more diverse ideas are heard, the more our product will truly improve healthcare for all. You are welcome to apply to Doctolib, regardless of your gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, ethnicity, disability.

To ensure equal opportunities, we invite you to exclude personal information (e.g. pictures, age) from your applications. If you require any accommodation, please let us know for support during the hiring process. 

Join us in building the healthcare we all dream of!

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