Head of Engineering

Company: RedCat Digital
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Location: London
Job Description:

Overview

As Head of Engineering, you will lead a founding-engineering team to build a platform that educates, finances, and simplifies treatments for patients. You will partner with the CEO, Product, and design leaders to set the technical direction and deliver solutions aligned with ambitious business goals. This hands-on leadership role at an early-stage health-tech startup places you at the heart of architecture decisions and scalable delivery, with a strong focus on improving provider conversion and patient experience. You’ll help drive substantial growth following a public launch, backed by a major healthcare player, and shape meaningful change in the industry.

Pay / Benefits

  • Competitive Salary
  • Bonus
  • Private Medical
  • 28 Days Holiday
  • 10% Pension
  • 3 Days in the office

Responsibilities

  • Set and execute the technical direction to enable business goals
  • Lead and grow the engineering team, fostering collaboration with product and design
  • Hands-on design of system architecture and key technical decisions
  • Collaborate with stakeholders across the business to align priorities
  • Deliver scalable platform features that improve provider conversion and patient experience
  • Work closely with CEO and founding team to support growth and launch plans

Key requirements

  • Seasoned tech leader with experience managing engineers in startups
  • Strong ability to collaborate with CEO, Product, and design
  • Hands-on in architecture and technical decision-making in an early-stage environment
  • Experience delivering customer-facing healthcare technology platforms
  • Proficiency with React, Typescript, Node.js, AWS, and CDK is implied
  • Comfort working cross-functionally with stakeholders to drive outcomes
  • strategic thinking
  • excellent communication
  • collaboration
  • React
  • Typescript
  • Node.js

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Posted: October 1st, 2026