Engineering Manager

A Bit About Us

Were Doccla and were redefining where and how healthcare is delivered.

Our Virtual Ward and Remote Monitoring Solutions enable hospitals and health systems to care for patients at home. We support patients across the full care journey from early discharge and acute recovery to long-term condition management and proactive care.

We provide everything clinicians need to deliver safe effective Virtual Care: medical-grade devices logistics patient onboarding EHR integration and an end-to-end clinical platform built around real-world workflows.

We currently work with over 60% of NHS ICBs and supporting health systems across the including UK Ireland France and the DACH region to reduce hospital pressure improve outcomes and create a more resilient model of care.

Were backed by top European investors having secured 35m in Series B funding led by Lakestar with participation from Elaia General Catalyst Speedinvest and Bertelsmann.

Why Join Us

This is your chance to join Doccla at a key stage in our growth.

Were building the category leader in Virtual Care and Remote Patient Monitoring. Youll be part of a highly entrepreneurial mission-driven team that combines expertise across clinical technical commercial and operational domains.

Were solving real problems for patients and health systems and growing fast.

What Youll Do as a Engineering Manager

This is a dual-focus role. Youll own the Enrol team responsible for patient onboarding while also acting as a key support to the VP Engineering taking real load off their plate by owning cross-team initiatives and engineering improvement work end-to-end.

The bulk of your time will be spent:

• Leading the Enrol team owning delivery outcomes growing engineers and building a healthy high-performing team that ships safe compliant software.

• Acting as a delegation point for the VP Engineering proactively identifying improvements bringing concrete plans and driving them through to completion without needing close oversight.

• Driving cross-team initiatives coordinating dependencies spotting risks early and ensuring work that spans teams actually lands.

• Helping EMs operate as a cohesive group sharing context driving alignment and building collaboration rather than silos across engineering.

• Experience working in a startup or scaleup environment comfortable with ambiguity resilient through change and able to adapt quickly as priorities shift.

• Staying technically engaged there is no expectation to write code but essential to remain close enough to architecture and system design to guide decisions spot risks and act as a credible partner to your engineers.

• Working with product Partnering with Product to ensure your team is solving the right problems aligning on priorities managing scope and ensuring the team has the context they need to make the right decisions for the business.

What Experience Youll Bring to the Team

• Proven experience as an Engineering Manager leading delivery teams with a track record of shipping high-quality software predictably and sustainably.

• Experience operating as a senior leaders delegation point owning problems end-to-end bringing plans proactively and driving them to completion without close oversight.

• A strong track record of growing engineers through coaching mentoring and honest performance conversations.

• Experience coordinating cross-team delivery managing dependencies and ensuring initiatives that span multiple teams succeed.

• Enough technical depth to engage meaningfully in architecture discussions challenge or support technical decisions and spot risks early.

• Experience working in a regulated or compliance-heavy environment (healthcare or medical device experience is a strong plus).

• Experience driving process improvement retros delivery metrics ways of working and turning insight into action.

What Were Looking For

• A leader who takes real ownership you dont wait to be asked you identify gaps propose solutions and execute.

• Someone who can operate at two altitudes: deeply invested in your teams success while also thinking and acting across engineering.

• The ability to be a calm steady presence when things get difficult leading with composure and grace.

• Happy to get stuck into anything the team needs whether its deep in your comfort zone or completely outside it big or small glamorous or not.

• A genuine commitment to patient safety and quality not as a checkbox exercise but as a default in how your team works.

• The ability to enhance productivity with AI tooling such as Claude and Copilot and drive responsible adoption across engineering.

• Strong communication skills you can translate complexity for technical and non-technical audiences manage expectations and build trust through transparency.

• A collaborative mindset you default to openness and partnership building strong relationships with other EMs Staff engineers Product and the wider business.

Skills & Attributes

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• Curious and kind always thinking the best of others and doing your best to help rather than complain.

• Naturally In It Together you build psychological safety champion diversity and make the people around you better.

• Never afraid to Own It you take accountability for outcomes address underperformance with care and urgency and continuously improve how we work.

• Patient First in everything you ensure compliance and safety are built into how the team works not bolted on at the end.

• Pragmatic and grounded you champion simplicity avoid over-engineering and help your team make smart tradeoffs.

• High integrity strong attention to detail and a deep commitment to quality and patient outcomes.

How We Work

We empower everyone at Doccla to take ownership of their work and the companys mission. We act ethically and always put patient safety and outcomes first.

To thrive here youll need a can-do attitude and an action-oriented approach along with a willingness to learn and grow through open feedback.

Were a hybrid team with offices in London Denmark Germany and Stockholm. Most of our team is London-based and enjoys in-person time at our WeWork HQ 13 days per week where youll find great lunch barista coffee and a pet-friendly space. Some roles are fully remote depending on the team and responsibilities.

What Youll Get

Annual Leave & Holidays
25 days annual leave up to 8 UK bank holidays
Option to buy or sell holidays

Remote Working
Flexible remote options
Remote working stipend

Financial Benefits
Employee stock options
4% pension on full basic pay
4x salary life insurance

Health & Wellness
Private health insurance
4 months full pay for birthing parent*
4 weeks full pay for non-birthing parent*
Sick pay

In-Office Perks (London HQ)
Free daily lunch
Pet-friendly office

Other Benefits
500 L&D budget per person
Cycle to work scheme

Via Smart Health:
24/7 GP appointments
Mental health support
Nutrition & fitness advice
Second opinions & health checks

In Return for Your Hard Work

• A competitive compensation package (base stock options) with half-year and annual performance reviews

• The chance to work on patient-first system-level healthcare challenges in one of Europes leading healthtech companies

• Opportunities for growth and leadership we want you to challenge the status quo own your impact and continue developing with our full support

Diversity at Doccla

We embrace diversity. To build a great product we need a team with a wide range of perspectives backgrounds and experiences.

Were committed to equal opportunity hiring regardless of race religion gender identity sexual orientation age disability or background. If youre excited about the role we encourage you to apply even if your experience doesnt match every point.

Safer Recruitment

We are committed to safer recruitment practices. As Doccla is a CQC registered company a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check will be required for all roles.

It is an offence to apply for such work if you are barred from working with children or vulnerable adults.