What We Do:
Florence software advances cures by helping the world’s most important research sites do their best work. Our solutions are now used by over 30,000 research teams in 70 countries around the world—we’re the most widely deployed site workflow tool in the industry. 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. To date, we were named a Deloitte Fast 50 business, G2 Category Leader, an Inc. & AJC best place to work, and an Inc. 5000 company five years in a row.
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.
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.
Please be cautious of potential recruitment fraud. If you are interested in exploring opportunities at Florence Healthcare, please go directly to our Careers Page. Florence Healthcare will never ask you to pay a fee or download software as part of the interview process with our company. In addition, Florence Healthcare will not ask for your personal banking information until you have signed an offer of employment and completed onboarding paperwork that is provided by our People Operations team. All communications with Florence Healthcare employees will only be sent from @florencehc.com email addresses.
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Florence Healthcare is a clinical trial software company that serves as the digital link for managing document and data flow between clinical trial sites, sponsors, and CROs. The company’s mission includes doubling the output of clinical trials this decade by enabling remote access.
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