Associate Director, Software Engineering

About the position

We are seeking a strategic and technically strong leader to join our Software Engineering team as an Associate Director, Software Engineering. This role will oversee the development of customer-facing digital experiences, including physician and patient portals, a physician mobile app, and EMR integrations with systems like Epic, OncoEMR, and hospital networks. This individual will lead and mentor engineering managers across teams in Palo Alto and India, drive the technical vision for intuitive, high-performing, and scalable physician-facing digital tools, and ensure seamless integration with healthcare ecosystems.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and scale a distributed engineering team across Palo Alto and India, ensuring high performance and alignment with Guardant Health’s mission.
• Provide technical and strategic direction for customer-facing digital experiences, ensuring seamless interactions between physicians, patients, and healthcare data.
• Drive user-centric design and engineering to improve physician workflows, mobile usability, and real-time access to insights.
• Promote engineering excellence, best practices, and a culture of continuous improvement in software development, DevOps, and automation.
• Oversee the development of physician and patient portals and a physician mobile app, ensuring a seamless, consumer-grade user experience.
• Drive EMR integration efforts with platforms like Epic, OncoEMR, and hospital networks, ensuring robust data exchange and interoperability.
• Architect and scale cloud-native solutions, leveraging AWS, Kubernetes, and microservices architectures.
• Establish and maintain strong CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous deployment with a focus on test automation and reliability.
• Ensure compliance with healthcare regulations.
• Partner with engineering leaders, product managers, UX designers, commercial and clinical stakeholders to drive innovation in customer-facing digital solutions.
• Work closely with Guardant Health’s leadership, ensuring cross-functional alignment and strategic execution.
• Foster an inclusive, diverse, and collaborative culture within engineering teams.

Requirements

• 12+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 5+ years leading teams in a managerial or director-level role.
• Proven experience managing engineering managers and leading distributed teams across geographies.
• Strong background in Full Stack or Backend development, with expertise in Java, React, RESTful APIs, and microservices.
• Experience building cloud-native applications in a containerized environment (Kubernetes, AWS preferred).
• Deep understanding of EMR/EHR integrations (Epic, OncoEMR, HL7, FHIR).
• Strong customer-first mindset, with experience in delivering engaging and scalable digital experiences.
• Strong CI/CD mindset, emphasizing test automation, DevOps, and continuous deployment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across technical and non-technical teams.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in the Life Sciences, Healthcare, or HealthTech industry.
• Familiarity with healthcare data security standards.

Benefits

• Hybrid Work Model: Defined days for in-person/onsite collaboration and work-from-home days.
• Flexibility for better work-life balance while keeping teams connected.