Director of Engineering

Our client is an Australian Health tech business looking for a highly experienced Lead Full-Stack Developer to take technical ownership of its healthcare software platform.

The platform supports patients, doctors, administrators and practitioners across pathology referrals, testing, results, clinical follow-up and order management.

This is a hands-on role for someone who can lead the architecture, frontend, backend, database, integrations, testing, deployments and ongoing reliability of a live healthcare application.

The current platform is built using Next.js, React, TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL/Supabase, Prisma, Tailwind CSS, Vercel and Railway. Experience with the same or similar technologies is suitable.

Key Responsibilities

• Take end-to-end technical ownership of the platform.
• Assess the existing architecture, codebase, integrations and technical debt.
• Recommend and execute a practical development roadmap, including whether parts of the platform should be rebuilt.
• Lead development across frontend, backend, database and infrastructure.
• Build and maintain secure authentication, user permissions, audit trails and reliable background processing.
• Develop and maintain API integrations with pathology laboratories and external systems.
• Work with healthcare data flows including HL7 messages, pathology results and PDF reports.
• Own testing, deployment, production support, security and platform reliability.
• Make architectural decisions independently and translate business requirements into practical technical solutions.
• Work directly with non-technical founders and provide clear technical recommendations.

Essential Experience

• Ideally 7+ years of software development experience, including Senior or Lead-level responsibility.
• Proven experience developing and maintaining production healthcare applications involving patient data and clinical workflows.
• Experience owning architecture and supporting live production systems.
• Strong full-stack development capability across modern frontend, backend and database technologies.
• Experience with secure authentication, permissions, audit trails, APIs and production integrations.
• Strong understanding of relational databases, application architecture and production reliability.
• Strong communication skills and confidence working directly with non-technical stakeholders.

Healthcare application experience is preferred.

Experience with HL7, pathology or laboratory systems, Supabase/PostgreSQL, cloud deployments and AI coding tools such as Claude Code will be highly regarded.

Working Arrangement

• Location: Remote (Manila, Philippines)
• Employment: Full-time
• Hours: AU