Director of Engineering

About the Role

As Director of Engineering at Tandem, you’ll be responsible for shaping and evolving how engineering is done across the company. You’ll be the craft leader for engineering across the entire organisation, as well as the operational leader of the platform org.

Being the craft leader for engineering means you’ll be elevating how we build and ship software. Ensuring our practices and processes deliver high quality software at a rapid pace, and build an environment where great engineers can do their life’s work. And as the operational leader of the platform org you’ll lead the teams responsible for infra, devex, security and data, with the operational mandate do build out the needed platform.

We’re looking for someone who genuinely cares about engineering culture and long-term technical quality. Someone who thinks deeply about developer experience, systems design, engineering velocity, and organizational effectiveness - without defaulting to heavyweight processes or unnecessary bureaucracy.

You’ll operate as both a strategic engineering leader and a hands-on technical contributor when needed. Some days that means discussing architecture decisions with engineers or improving development workflows. Other days it means helping teams align on engineering standards, improving technical execution across the organization, shaping how AI changes the way modern engineering teams operate, or helping the team leads in your organisation grow.

You’ve built out an AI SDLC at your current company, delivering immense velocity without compromising quality & stability - and want to continue figuring out how this new era of engineering can deliver extreme quality software.

This role is a great fit for someone who has progressed quickly in their career, enjoys creating clarity and strong engineering environments, and wants to have a significant impact on how engineering scales at a fast-growing AI company.

What You Will Do

• Lead and evolve the overall engineering craft at Tandem

• Push the cutting edge of how agentic engineering enables faster and higher quality delivery

• Improve engineering processes, workflows, tooling, and development practices across teams

• Partner closely with Product, Design, and Engineering leadership to shape how we build products

• Support and mentor engineers and Team Leads through technical guidance and collaboration

• Contribute hands-on when needed across architecture, systems design, or implementation

• Create alignment around technical direction and engineering quality across the company

• Continuously improve our systems and practices such that we can ship at high velocity with 99.99% uptime

What You Bring

• Strong software engineering experience with deep technical understanding and ability

• A deep passion for the software engineering craft, you can’t stop yourself from using software to solve problems

• Experience setting up agentic engineering principles

• Experience leading large technical initiatives, engineering practices, or teams.

• Strong systems thinking and ability to balance speed, scalability, and maintainability

• A genuine interest in engineering culture, developer experience, and organization

• effectiveness

• Ability to create clarity and structure in fast-moving environments

• Pragmatic judgment - you know when process helps and when it slows teams down

• Strong communication skills and ability to align teams around common engineering principles

• A high level of ownership and long-term thinking around technical quality

• Good skills in deciding when and how to trade of product velocity with tech debt
  

Bonus Points

• Experience building AI-native products

• Experience in healthtech

• Experience shaping an engineering organisation through a high growth scale up phase

• Experience building very high availability software

Benefits

• Competitive salary & company stock options

• 30 days/year of paid vacation

• 5,000 SEK wellness allowance (friskvårdsbidrag) plus an additional 6,000 SEK yearly to spend on other health related initiatives

• Generous Parental leave top-up for new parents

• Private Medical Insurance to stay healthy

• Mental health support through our partner Mindler

• Pension program

• Social and team-building activities (off-sites, after works, winter/summer parties)

• An opportunity to make a real positive impact in the world of healthcare

• Work with some of the best minds in AI, healthcare, and engineering.

We review our benefits packages on a regular basis and might modify our benefits from time to time.