Head of Software Engineering (Health Tech)

Adoreal

2d•Remote

About The Position

We are looking for a visionary Head of Engineering to lead, mentor, and scale our globally distributed engineering team—primarily based in Latin America. This is a high-impact leadership role that requires deep technical expertise, strategic thinking, and experience challenging the team to do better, setting a high bar for accuracy, and ensuring technical decisions are thoroughly validated. You’ll be responsible for driving architectural direction, growing a skilled team developing in the .NET ecosystem, and implementing intelligent automation across Adoreal’s platform. If you thrive in ambitious and hard-working environments and know how to build, scale, and mentor teams with business objectives/goals on top of mind while keeping operational excellence and innovation in mind— this role is for you.

Requirements

10–15+ years in software engineering, with at least 5 in senior engineering leadership roles.
Experience building and scaling engineering teams in high-growth startup environments.
Deep technical knowledge and hands-on experience with the .NET stack, including: ASP.NET Core, C#, Web API, Entity Framework, Python and SQL Server.
Proven success scaling teams and systems in startup SaaS businesses, preferably during $10M–$80M growth phases within 5-7 years.
Cloud deployment in Azure or AWS.
Background in healthcare tech, especially SaaS products.
Experience overseeing ERP implementation and AI/ML integrations.
Experience defining technical plans and org-wide strategies from scratch.
Deep operational discipline: knows how to spot execution issues and course-correct decisively.

Responsibilities

Own the technical roadmap in close collaboration with the product team and executive leadership.
Set the vision for engineering culture, delivery standards, and high development velocity.
Ensure engineering goals align with internal Adoreal priorities as well as clinic partners.
Foster cross-functional collaboration with UX/UI teams.
Lead a 30+ person engineering team (and growing) across multiple time zones, with a majority based in LATAM.
Hire, mentor, and develop engineering managers and high-performance contributors.
Foster a culture of learning the business and acting on behalf of the business with high accountability.
Manage and deliver routine performance evaluations and performance improvement plans.
Oversee architecture and execution of scalable, secure, and maintainable systems.
Create new products from scratch & integrate and adapt API driven solutions to scale product portfolio and address partner needs for ERP systems.
Own DevOps, infrastructure, and data security strategies.
Help develop and build our our IT department including, MDM, SSO, and HIPAA compliance.
Stay at the forefront of AI trends and translate them into tangible platform improvements.
Ensure the engineering org builds GDRP, HIPAA, and other-compliant, scalable SaaS solutions for the US plastic surgery practices.