Engineering Manager - Connect / Content Tools (f/m/x)

About us

At Ada, we envision a world where everyone has access to the healthcare they need. In one of the biggest challenges facing the world, we pioneered a new form of artificial intelligence, combining medical knowledge with intelligent technology to empower millions of people to better understand their health. We’re proud to support medical doctors and work with leading health systems and global non-profit organizations. We’re a diversely skilled team representing 55 nationalities, and we’re growing rapidly to achieve our global ambitions for the future of health. This is just the beginning.

About the role

Are you an engineering leader who can make a substantial impact on a dynamic, fast-moving business? Are you equally comfortable digging into product requirements as drilling into architecture and design with development teams? Are you passionate about bringing the best experience to our users and customers? Do you relish supporting and growing people through management? If so, this could be the opportunity for you. We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead and support our Care Content Tools team.

The Care Content Tools team enables users to get the best outcome by delivering care journeys powered by capabilities created by Ada and strategic partners. The solutions built by the team connect the user with appropriate care options to help them manage their health in the US and the EU.

This role requires working closely with product managers, designers, medical experts, and architects to analyze requirements, define technical strategy, and deliver robust, scalable and seamless experiences for our customers. You'll be empowered to independently make judgement calls to keep the team moving and find elegant solutions to hard problems. You'll directly own the architecture, engineering quality, and technical roadmap of your services. Successful candidates will have a track record delivering complex systems, in a regulated healthcare environment with excellent people and project management skills, solid communication skills, and a strong technical aptitude.

What you'll do

• Manage, lead, and grow a team of engineers and quality engineers to ensure the delivery of high-quality, scalable software solutions.

• Partner with product managers, solution architects and other cross-functional teams to define and implement technical concepts and designs. 

• Assess technical risk and identify system design flaws to ensure the reliability of our products.

• Contribute to architectural and code review discussions to keep our codebase maintainable and high quality. 

• Foster a collaborative and innovative engineering culture that promotes continuous improvement. 

• Drive the adoption of best practices in software development, quality and operational excellence. 

• Guarantee the quality of deliveries and compliance by contributing to our standards and processes and helping document these.

• Interview and recruit top talent to support our engineering team’s growth. 

• Build and maintain strong relationships with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless collaboration and project success. 

• Having a servant-leadership mindset, you will lead by example and actively contribute to a positive engineering culture at Ada.

What you'll bring

• You bring several years of experience contributing to scalable platforms and software architectures, ideally at least 3 years in a similar role leading Engineers

• Experience in the Healthcare or another regulated industry is a big plus. 

• You have a track record of delivering and owning projects end to end.

• You are proficient in software architecture including best-practice design principles.

• You have contributed to engineering guidelines and processes and have experience in developing or integrating healthcare solutions.

• You have a very strong background either in backend development, being experienced in the JVM ecosystem making use of Kotlin or Java’s functional abilities, or with our frontend tech stack with experience in component-based frontend architectures (eg. micro frontends).

• You know and care about engineering practices like continuous delivery, shared code ownership, automated testing, and operational excellence.

• You are used to working in an environment where you design, build and run it.

• You have good knowledge of our tech stack: Kotlin, Spring Boot, JVM, MongoDB, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, Node.js, Typescript, and common cloud platforms.

• You have expertise in agile development (Scrum or Kanban) and have an agile mindset.

• Excellent communication, influence and interpersonal skills. 

What's awaiting you at Ada

• Flexible working hours to maintain a healthy work/life balance
• 28 days holiday, plus Bank holidays to unplug, rest and recharge for our UK employees (30 days plus public holidays in Germany)
• Corporate health insurance and pension scheme (UK)
• Support to set up your home office space, with the option for a co-working space subscription for our remote employees
• Parental benefits (Plus Nursery benefits for the UK)
• Employee Assistance Programs to help you look after your emotional wellbeing and deal with life’s challenges
• Stay active and healthy with a discounted ClassPass membership (or Urban Sports Club membership for our employees in Germany)
• Bike Leasing Scheme (Germany)
• Online Academy for learning and development opportunities

At Ada, inclusivity isn't just a goal – it's our foundation. 

As a proud equal opportunity employer, we embrace diversity in all its forms. We encourage applications from every corner of society, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy status, national origin, age, physical and mental abilities, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, and any other characteristic protected by law. 

Join us in shaping a more inclusive tomorrow.

Contact

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at talent@ada.com.

Please note that we do not accept applications sent via email. All applications need to be completed using the online form.

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