Director Performance Engineering Jobs in Florida

WHO WE ARE
Emergency clinicians make critical decisions in seconds. Handtevy is the Clinical Intelligence platform built forthose moments, trusted by EMS agencies and hospital emergency departments across all 50 states.

Handtevy is a healthcare technology company headquartered in South Florida. 3,000 EMS agencies and 200,000clinicians rely on the Handtevy platform to deliver safer, faster, and more consistent care.

THE OPPORTUNITY
Every second in the field counts, and the systems that power our clinicians need to be built, led, and scaled withthe same precision they depend on.

We are looking for a Director of Engineering to join our leadership team as we scale. This is a people-first, communication-forward leadership position for someone who knows how to build great teams and run a disciplined delivery operation across our web, mobile, and backend systems. Someone who raises the bar on engineering practices and translates strategy into execution without losing either side in the process.

You should be technical enough to understand the architecture, evaluate trade-offs, and pressure-test estimates. You don't need to write production code in this role, but you need to have written it.

You'll report directly to our CTO and work closely with our Senior Engineering Leads and our Director of Product, who owns the roadmap. Your job is to make the whole system work: keeping the team focused, the commitments honest, and the business informed.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Lead & Develop the Engineering and QA Teams

Manage, coach, and grow our engineering and QA teams, owning hiring, performance management, and career development

Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement where good engineers stay andgrow
Partner with our Senior Engineering Leads to ensure engineers have the support and clarity to do their bestwork

Partner with Product & Represent Engineering to the Business

Be the engineering counterpart to our Director of Product: Product owns the what and why, you own thehow, when, and who. Together you own the planning seam between roadmap and execution

Translate the product roadmap into clear engineering plans with real estimates and explicit trade-offs, andtranslate engineering constraints and risk back into business language leadership can act on

Push back constructively when scope or timelines are unrealistic; offer alternatives, not just problems

Engage engineering early in product discovery so feasibility and effort shape requirements before they arelocked

Establish and enforce a practical definition of ready for engineering work, ensuring features have clearscope, acceptance criteria, technical considerations, test expectations, and trade-offs before developmentbegins

Drive Delivery & Engineering Execution

Own and continuously improve the engineering operating system, including the SDLC, planning, sprint execution, release process, quality practices, and delivery rhythm, while developing leads so the system does not depend on one person

Remove blockers proactively and keep the team moving without becoming a bottleneck yourself

Establish clear ownership across product and technical domains, ensuring engineers understand their areas of responsibility, decision-making expectations, and when broader cross-functional alignment is needed

Raise the bar on release confidence: drive quality and reliability across the platform, including test automation strategy, incident response, and production monitoring

Track and improve engineering KPIs: velocity, reliability, incident response, and tech debt Partner on Strategy & Architecture

Work with the CTO to align engineering execution with business goals and long-term product vision

Own the engineering-side contributions to our SOC 2 posture: secure development practices, code-level controls, and audit-ready engineering processes, in partnership with the CTO who owns the overall program

Co-evaluate architectural trade-offs with the CTO. There is no dedicated architect on the team, so this role carries real technical authority and accountability for how the platform is built and scaled

Partner with the CTO on vendor relationships, tooling decisions, and team growth planning

YOUR ROLE ON THE TEAM
You're joining a lean, high-impact engineering organization. Our CTO sets the technical vision and has direct ownership of the Cloud and DevOps function. Our Director of Product owns the roadmap, prioritization, and the voice of the customer. Our Senior Engineering Leads drive hands-on execution with the engineering team. You are the leader who makes delivery work: the person who builds the team, keeps commitments achievable, and makes sure the rest of the business always knows where things stand.

Software Engineering and QA report to you. While Cloud and DevOps report through the CTO, you are accountable for application delivery readiness and work closely with DevOps to ensure releases, observability, CI/CD, and incident response support predictable product delivery. Your partnership with the Director of Product is the most important working relationship in this role. When Product and Engineering are aligned, the whole company moves faster.

This is a role for someone who gets energy from clarity. From turning an ambitious roadmap into crisp engineering plans, from having hard conversations early so the team isn't scrambling later, and from building the kind of team culture where good engineers stay and grow.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

*MUST-HAVES

10+ years in software engineering, including 3+years in an engineering leadership role at aSaaS company

Experience managing and growing a growingengineering team through a transition from startup-style execution to more structured growth-stage delivery

Proven track record managing high-performingengineering teams, including QA functions andrelease quality
Deep enough technical background to evaluatearchitectural trade-offs in a modern web/mobileSaaS stack
Exceptional communicator equally comfortablepresenting to the C-suite and collaborating witha senior engineer
Experience working as the engineering-sidepartner to product leadership: turning roadmapsinto execution plans and business priorities intosprint reality
Ability to hold technical quality and deliveryvelocity simultaneously without sacrificing either

Genuine fluency with, or strong openness to,AI-assisted development practices and howthey change team productivity

Experience improving Agile/Scrum practices ina growing engineering organization withoutadding unnecessary bureaucracy

Authorized to work in the United States

*NICE TO HAVES
Background in healthcare, emergency services,or safety-critical SaaS
Experience scaling engineering teams from startup to growth stage

Exposure to mobile-first product development

Familiarity with Cloud and distributedenvironments

Experience working in SOC 2 or similarlycompliance-driven environments

THE RIGHT FIT
You can walk into a planning session with the Director of Product and a sprint review with engineers on thesame day, and hold your own in both rooms.

You believe that great engineering leadership is mostly communication and trust, and you have the trackrecord to prove it.

You say no early, with alternatives attached, instead of agreeing in the meeting and letting the team failquietly.

You stay calm when priorities shift, and you help your team do the same.

You take ownership without micromanaging. You know the difference.

You care about the mission. Technology that helps save lives deserves engineering leadership that takes itseriously.

HOW TO APPLY
Send us a brief intro and your resume. We're most interested in understanding how you've worked with productleadership: the moments where alignment broke down, and how you rebuilt it. Tell us about a time you had topush back on a roadmap, or a time you had to explain an engineering constraint to a non-technical stakeholderand get their buy-in.

Compensation is competitive and commensurate with experience. This role is hybrid with 3 days on-site per weekat our Davie, FL office.

Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States. We are not able to provide visa sponsorship at thistime.