Full-Time Associate Director, Software Engineering

About the Role: We are seeking a strategic and technically strong leader to join our Software Engineering team as an Associate Director, Software Engineering. This role will oversee development of customer-facing digital experiences, including physician and patient portals, a physician mobile app, and EMR integrations with systems like Epic, OncoEMR, and hospital networks.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Leadership & Strategy
   • Lead, mentor, and scale a distributed engineering team across Palo Alto and India, ensuring high performance and alignment with Guardant Health’s mission.
   • Provide technical and strategic direction for customer-facing digital experiences, ensuring seamless interactions between physicians, patients, and healthcare data.
   • Drive user-centric design and engineering to improve physician workflows, mobile usability, and real-time access to insights.
   • Promote engineering excellence, best practices, and a culture of continuous improvement in software development, DevOps, and automation.
2. Technology & Execution
   • Oversee the development of physician and patient portals and a physician mobile app, ensuring a seamless, consumer-grade user experience.
   • Drive EMR integration efforts with platforms like Epic, OncoEMR, and hospital networks, ensuring robust data exchange and interoperability.
   • Architect and scale cloud-native solutions, leveraging AWS, Kubernetes, and microservices architectures.
   • Establish and maintain strong CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous deployment with a focus on test automation and reliability.
   • Ensure compliance with healthcare regulations.
3. Collaboration & Stakeholder Management
   • Partner with engineering leaders, product managers, UX designers, commercial and clinical stakeholders to drive innovation in customer-facing digital solutions.
   • Work closely with Guardant Health’s leadership, ensuring cross-functional alignment and strategic execution.
   • Foster an inclusive, diverse, and collaborative culture within engineering teams.

Requirements:

• 12+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 5+ years leading teams in a managerial or director-level role.
• Proven experience managing engineering managers and leading distributed teams across geographies.
• Strong background in Full Stack or Backend development, with expertise in Java, React, RESTful APIs, and microservices.
• Experience building cloud-native applications in a containerized environment (Kubernetes, AWS preferred).
• Deep understanding of EMR/EHR integrations (Epic, OncoEMR, HL7, FHIR).
• Strong customer-first mindset, with experience in delivering engaging and scalable digital experiences.
• Strong CI/CD mindset, emphasizing test automation, DevOps, and continuous deployment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across technical and non-technical teams.

Nice to Have:

• Experience in the Life Sciences, Healthcare, or HealthTech industry.
• Familiarity with healthcare data security standards.

Compensation: $186,320 to $301,400 (USD) per year.

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