Director, Engineering

Role Overview

Director, Engineering for DrFirst’s RxInform medication adherence platform. You will be a hands-on engineering leader with meaningful day-to-day coding across both UI and backend-adjacent concerns, plus ownership of releases and quality.

Team/Platform context: RxInform uses an Angular admin console and a patient-facing client, paired with Java services on AWS. About 70% of your time is hands-on engineering.

Responsibilities

• Hands-on Engineering (~70%)
  • Write production code across the Angular admin console and patient-facing client.
  • Review every meaningful PR.
  • Lead UI direction: component structure, state management, accessibility, performance, and SSR.
  • Drive test coverage improvements.
  • Partner with server engineers on API contracts.
  • Tackle the team’s hardest debugging problems.
• QA Partnership (~10%)
  • Define the boundary between end-to-end automation and unit/integration tests.
  • Coach shift-left testing practices.
  • Ensure production defects are closed out so the same bug class doesn’t ship again.
• Release Readiness (~10%)
  • Own the technical side of UI releases: container image promotion, coordinated cut-overs, and rollback readiness.
  • Sign off on what ships/holds/rolls back.
  • Identify technical bottlenecks early.
• People Leadership (~10%)
  • Manage a small UI team with weekly 1:1s focused on growth grounded in code.
  • Hold engineers to a clear performance bar.
  • Partner with product on sequencing and scope.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering as a hands-on IC, with production code shipped in the last 12 months.
• 2+ years formally managing a small engineering team (including hiring and performance management).
• Senior depth in Java and server-side technologies including:
  • plugin frameworks, DynamoDB, SQS, and Hibernate/JPA.
• Production Angular shipping experience in the last 12 months (Angular 16+, Nx, RxJS, SSR).
• Track record raising unit and integration test coverage on a real codebase.
• QA automation experience including shift-left testing and meaningful end-to-end coverage.
• Release ownership for a Kubernetes-deployed, multi-service product with CI/CD and production incident accountability.
• Active, daily use of AI engineering tools (hard requirement): Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor, ChatGPT.
• Strong written and verbal communication.

Nice-to-haves

• Not specified.