Head of Engineering

Job summary
Permanent contract
Paris
A few days at home
Salary: Not specified
Starting date: February 22, 2026
Experience: > 5 years
Skills & expertise
Observation skills
Prompt engineering
Leadership
Collaboration and teamwork
Grafana
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Azmed
Azmed

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Job description

Role Overview

You will guide a team of engineers across Software Engineering, Web Development, DevOps, and MLOps, and work closely with Product, QA, and the CTO to build the future of our Raysuite applications, an AI-powered software that detects pathologies on X-Rays and CT Scanners for hospitals and clinics worldwide.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead and mentor the engineering teams (Software, WebDev, DevOps, MLOps), fostering a humble, caring, and high-performance culture while supporting career growth and rigorous collaboration.

  • Drive technical architecture and system design, making key decisions with the CTO and Lead Software Engineer to ensure our distributed Python services and cloud-native infrastructure are scalable, robust, and observable.

  • Collaborate closely with Product to shape roadmaps, evaluate feasibility, align on priorities, and ensure timely, high-quality delivery of impactful features.

  • Oversee platform and operational excellence by supporting DevOps/MLOps in CI/CD, automation pipelines, monitoring, cost awareness, and general infrastructure evolution.

  • Establish and improve engineering processes, including code quality standards, testing practices, deployment workflows, documentation, and engineering rituals that balance speed with medical-grade reliability.

  • Contribute to medical device documentation by collaborating with QARA and providing engineering inputs for the technical files, risk controls, and traceability.

Our Stack

  • Language: Python

  • Orchestration: Celery, Selinon

  • Messaging: RabbitMQ

  • Storage: Redis, MongoDB, PostgreSQL

  • Data: Kafka, Spark

  • Observability: Grafana

  • Kubernetes


Preferred experience

You are well-suited for this position if:

  • You are a humble, caring, and people-centered leader who enjoys helping teams grow and succeed.

  • You are hands-on when needed, comfortable diving into code, architecture, or infrastructure discussions.

  • You value pragmatism and craftsmanship, designing solutions that are reliable, maintainable, and purposeful.

  • You bring structure and clarity while keeping a collaborative, low-ego approach.

  • You are motivated by process building, raising engineering standards, and creating long-term foundations.

Qualifications

  • Proven experience (typically 7+ years) in engineering roles, including 3–5 years in a leadership or management role in a modern cloud-native environment.

  • Strong technical background in distributed systems, backend engineering, or platform engineering

  • Ability to design and improve engineering processes (testing, release, documentation, reviews).

  • Experience working with cross-functional teams including Product, AI/Data, and QA/RA.

Bonus points

  • Experience in a Healthcare

  • Experience with Kubernetes, AWS, CI/CD, and observability/monitoring

  • One Piece fan 👒 🏴‍☠️

Why join us ?

  • Flexible work : Possibility of working remotely two days per week 🌻

  • Vibrant team culture: a dynamic work environment with regular afterworks (company-organized and spontaneous among colleagues), plus an annual company offsite weekend in great locations 🪅

  • Atmosphere : Young team (29 y.o average) 🐣

  • Localisation : Great office in Paris 2nd arrondissement (Grands Boulevards) 🏣


Recruitment process

  • Screening interview with our CTO (30 min, remote)

  • In-depth interview with our technical teams (2 hours, at the office)

  • Meet the team and founders (2h30 hours, at the office)

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