Technical Lead, Engineering (MERN/ Python)

Technical Lead, Engineering Medicine moves too slow. At Velsera, we are changing that. Velsera was formed in 2023 through the shared vision of Seven Bridges and Pierian, with a mission to accelerate the discovery, development, and delivery of life-changing insights. Velsera provides software and professional services for: • AI-powered multimodal data harmonization and analytics for drug discovery and development • IVD development, validation, and regulatory approval • Clinical NGS interpretation, reporting, and adoption With our headquarters in Boston, MA, we are growing and expanding our teams located in different countries! What will you do? • Manage a team of software engineers (hiring, coaching, motivating). • Managing the budget for multiple development teams, aligning this budget with strategic business objectives. • Build a cost-efficient, effective engineering organization, by analyzing engineering processes, detecting operational gaps, implementing improvements. • Support multiple PODs in delivering high-quality software in one or more adjacent product areas. • Collaborate with cross-functional teams such as Product and Customer Operations to ensure the successful delivery of software products. • Report on status of organizational metrics. What do you bring to the table? • Strong people leadership skills with the ability to inspire and motivate a team of managers and engineers. At least 2 years of experience in managerial positions. • The ability to clearly communicate and collaborate well with both technical and non-technical partners across multiple departments. • Combining profound business insights, critical thinking and problem solving skills to set strategic direction. • The ability to analyze, define and track key metrics, the ability to act upon these metrics and implement organizational and operational changes. • A strong technical background in software engineering, with at least 8 years of experience in the software product development industry. • Experience bringing innovative, industry-leading, category-defining tech products to market. • Experience with Agile methodologies and Software Development Life Cycle management processes. • Excellent prioritization and organizational skills, a track record of actively driving processes to deliver quality outcomes. • Good presentation, oral, and written communication skills. • Experience working with executive level internal and external clients/partners, acting as a representative of the company. • Experience with Cloud technologies, Microservices architecture, Application Programming Interfaces (API) and databases. • Experience in Java, TypeScript, Node, React, NestJS and Python. • Experience in developing software in a regulated environment is a plus. • Experience working in the clinical informatics, health care and life sciences domain is a plus.