[Hiring] Director of Engineering @Clinical ink

Role Description

Clinical Ink is seeking a Director of Engineering to join Clinical Ink's Disease Management team based in Denmark and the United States. In this role, you own how the engineering team delivers:

• Own delivery: turn product and regulatory intent into a sequenced, achievable plan; hit the submission and release milestones.
• Hire, grow, and lead the engineering team — set the bar, run the loop, develop people, and shape a culture of ownership and impact.
• Partner with the Principal Engineer on architecture and significant-change decisions; make the build-vs-buy and resourcing calls.
• Be the engineering voice to product, clinical, regulatory/QMS, and execs — translate in both directions and keep commitments honest.
• Stand up the reliability practice as the platform heads to production: SLOs and error budgets, observability, incident response, and a humane on-call — operational maturity that scales with the product. Own the infra/cloud spend and resourcing trade-offs.
• Steward process that helps, not hinders: the quality system, change control, and CI controls should make safe shipping faster, not slower.
• Champion AI-augmented engineering as a force-multiplier for a small team, with verification and safety built in.

Qualifications

• Experience leading engineering teams that shipped real software, with a credible technical foundation (you came up through backend/platform or can hold your own there).
• A track record of delivering under constraints — milestones, small teams, competing priorities — without burning the team out.
• Strong judgment on architecture and trade-offs; you can dive into a design review and add signal.
• Excellent communication across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Comfort building in a regulated, safety-critical, AI-augmented environment.
• Regulated / health software (SaMD, IEC 62304, ISO 14971, HIPAA, FDA pathways).
• Scaling a team from a handful of engineers; standing up hiring and on-call.
• Hands-on history with our stack (Python/FastAPI/AWS) or healthcare data (FHIR, wearables).

Company Description

Clinical Ink is the global life science company that brings data, technology, and patient science together to unlock clinical discovery. Our deep therapeutic-area expertise, coupled with Direct Data Capture, eCOA, eConsent, telehealth, neurocognitive testing, and digital biomarkers advancement, drive the industry standard for data precision and usher in a new generation of clinical trials. With offices in the United States and Denmark, Clinical Ink is rewriting the clinical development experience.