Head of Software Engineering

Who we are

ChilliPharm is a UK-headquartered company specialising in secure, compliant, and user-centred video solutions tailored specifically for clinical trials. Our services are currently used in over 1,000 hospitals across more than 40 countries, enabling consistent and reliable patient assessments across a wide range of therapeutic areas.

Continuity in patient assessment is critical to generating high-quality, regulatory-ready data in clinical research. ChilliPharm delivers a fully integrated, end-to-end video solution encompassing filming kit logistics, secure video capture, expert reviewer feedback, and patient de-identification for regulatory submission. By standardising how assessments are recorded and reviewed, we help clinical trial sponsors and research sites maintain data integrity across geographical sites.

Operating in a highly regulated environment, ChilliPharm ensures full compliance with international standards, including ISO 27001 certification, GDPR, HIPAA, and 21 CFR Part 11/Annex 11. Although we are not an FDA-regulated company, we adhere to FDA expectations for Computer System Validation (CSV) to ensure our systems meet the necessary standards for data integrity, reliability, and compliance in support of regulatory submissions.

While our primary clients are pharmaceutical companies, our day-to-day users include Clinical Research Organisations (CROs) and hospital-based clinicians. The current offering is delivered as a SaaS platform supported by dedicated project managers for account administration. Looking ahead, ChilliPharm is developing a headless API platform to enable machine-to-machine access, offering greater flexibility and integration options for our clients.

About the role and what you will be doing:

We are looking for an experienced Head of Software Engineering to lead our software teams as we begin our transitive journey of migrating our tech stack from Ruby on Rails to React and Next.js. You will be using your JavaScript expertise with CSR and SSR to rearchitect our platform in React.js and Next.js while driving software best practices.

You will be responsible for overseeing the entire software development lifecycle, from planning to deployment, having ownership of all business processes related to software, including strong governance of software projects, adoption of best practices for software development, and driving a collaborative environment across the different software disciplines. 

You will also be responsible for building out the wider development team, mentoring other developers, connecting engineering deliverables to business objectives, and helping to drive the success of ChilliPharm by making sure we are building the best possible platform for our clients!

What you will bring to ChilliPharm

This role combines technical expertise in JavaScript development with architecture, leadership and management skills to guide and support our team of developers, often overseeing projects from design to testing and deployment. Such as, you’ll need to bring your skills and experience:

·      Track record of leading successful software migrations and creating new software as part of a wider business and technology team.

·      Strong background with Vanilla JavaScript and the advantages and disadvantages of the different frameworks

·      Experience guiding team's technical direction and making architectural decisions

·      Ensuring code quality and maintainability

·      Staying current with the latest JavaScript frameworks, libraries, and best practices

·      Strong background in Architecting a CSR and SSR mixed solution and articulating the reasoning behind the solution

·      Expert in React.js and Node.js

·      Mentoring junior engineers, providing guidance, and fostering a positive learning environment

·      Conducting code reviews and providing constructive feedback.

·      Designing and implementing scalable and maintainable web applications.

·      Working with other developers, designers, and product managers to ensure a cohesive product

·      Clearly communicating technical decisions and progress to stakeholders.

·      Confident in providing direction to your team, resolving challenges and being responsible for outcomes

·      Creating design systems and CSS libraries, linking both functional and design engineering

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