Director of EngineeringTandem Health · Stockholm

Director of Engineering

🗓️ Posted 2026-10-12 Stockholm Fulltime Hybrid ICT
💰 Salary Not shared 📊 Market 80,000 SEK–120,000 SEK/mo

About the Company

At Tandem Health we're reimagining healthcare by putting clinicians first. Our platform - designed by clinicians, for clinicians - is built on deep insight into real-world pain points, with intuitive medical notes and workflows that truly support patient care. We're a fast-scaling health-tech company backed by top investors and expanding globally.

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.

Responsibilities

  • ● 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

Requirements

  • ● 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

Application Notes

If you're passionate about impact and innovation, we'd love to meet you