VP, Engineering

What We Do:

Florence Healthcare, Inc. (florencehc.com) software reduces the time it takes to deliver medical cures to those who need them. Our industry-leading software is used to streamline clinical trials at over 10,000 research sites, sponsors, and CROs across 45 countries. By the end of the decade, we'll double the pace at which new medicines get to market by doubling the output of trial site teams.

At Florence, we are committed to make the world a better place by accelerating research while providing an environment for our employees where they can be happy in their lives, enjoy their jobs, and grow.

We are happy to share that we have recently earned spots on the following lists:

• Built In Atlanta Best Midsize Remote Companies to Work For 2023
• Atlanta Journal Constitution - 8th Best Small Workplace in Atlanta in 2022 and received the "New Ideas Award"
• Inc Best Places to Work 2022
• Best & Brightest 2022 Atlanta
• Best & Brightest 2022 USA
  
  

What You'll Bring to The Team:

You are passionate about building large-scale, mission-critical software in a fast-paced agile environment. As VP of Engineering, you tackle people and technical challenges—from shaping team culture and growing the team, to contributing to company-wide technical roadmaps and leading projects, to ensuring service delivery according to SLAs.

You will:

• Lead and mentor your team to solve challenging technical problems, enhancing productivity and fostering a culture of excellence.
• Drive operational excellence by implementing well-established metrics to measure outcomes, analyzing results, and continuously improving processes to optimize for employee satisfaction and output.
• Cultivate an engineering culture that emphasizes leadership, growth, and scale, ensuring the promotion of individual and organizational growth through thoughtful hiring practices.
• Ensure 99.99% service availability uptime, maintaining a robust and reliable infrastructure.
• Translate business objectives into actionable development plans, effectively communicating challenges, timelines, designs, and goals.
• Lead the team in software architecture best practices, focusing on scalability, performance, availability, maintainability, extensibility, and security.
• Enhance software development processes and practices to ensure high-quality products and code.
• Actively partner cross-functionally with product, architecture, and engineering teams to build actionable and measurable product plans.
• Provide inspirational leadership for the engineering group, fostering a culture of growth and technical excellence.
• Improve our technical brand both internally and externally, focusing on recruitment and retention.
• Define, communicate, and ensure the team has the right tools, processes, and resources for the job.
• Leverage AI/ML to drive operational efficiencies, transform the organization, and develop innovative AI products.
  
  

An Ideal Candidate Is/Has:

• A passion for Florence's mission.
• 12+ years of experience in software development.
• 7+ years of experience providing technical and architectural leadership to software development teams building SaaS products.
• Experience actively managing software developers, including performance reviews and hiring.
• Strong experience with Angular, Node.js, MongoDB, and AWS.
• Proven experience in complex domains for users with specialized expertise.
• Deep understanding of metrics and how to use them to drive operational excellence.
• Comprehensive knowledge of engineering organizations and how to maximize their effectiveness.
• Experience or focus on AI/ML to enhance operational efficiencies and create AI-driven products.
  
  

We'll be extra excited if you have:

• Experience managing managers of software developers.
• Experience working with teams across time zones.
• Startup experience or experience establishing a new team.
• Bachelor's Degree in a related discipline or equivalent experience.
  
  

What's in it for you?

• Do well. We offer a competitive compensation package, medical and dental insurance, and office space in the heart of the city.
• Do good. We insist that health technology is the highest calling for software development. We pride ourselves on working on something bigger than ourselves; helping advance cures and therapies.
• Make the leap. Join our high-output culture to create innovative, modern, and purposeful software solutions.
  
  

Florence supports workplace diversity and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, physical disability, or any other protected class.