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Director of Software Engineering

  2025-07-01     Harnham     San Francisco,CA  
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$210,000.00/yr - $230,000.00/yr

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Location: On-site 2-3 days a week in Downtown SF

About:

This series B biotech company is looking to add leadership to their software engineering team by adding a new director. This is a great role for someone who has led small teams in the past and likes to maintain some hands-on coding work as well.

Role Overview:

You will oversee a growing engineering team and ensure successful product development and execution.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Lead a team of engineers, ensuring alignment with company goals.
  • Drive the growth and development of the engineering team.
  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship.
  • Contribute hands-on engineering support (approx. 20% of time hands-on coding
  • Collaborate with other departments to shape product strategy.

Qualifications:

  • At least 8 years of experience in the industry, preferably in biotech and even more preferably in diagnostics
  • Proven leadership experience, ideally in a director role.
  • Strong proficiency for experience in python
  • Experience leading small backend engineering teams, some experience in frontend would be nice

Nice to Have:

  • Experience in engineering organizations across multiple companies.
  • Previous experience as a director.

Compensation:

  • Salary range: 210-230k base

If you're passionate about leveraging technology to impact lives and have the leadership skills to guide a growing team, we'd love to hear from you.

Seniority level

  • Seniority level

    Director

Employment type

  • Employment type

    Full-time

Job function

  • Job function

    Administrative and Engineering

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401(k)

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