Senior Software Engineering Lead

Our client is a MedTech company is hiring its senior software engineering leader. The product is a complex physical system with a Python-heavy stack built around computer vision and machine learning, and the software has to be fast, reliable and provable in a clinical environment. This is a player-coach role reporting into a hands-on, technically credible CTO. You will lead a small, capable team of software and AI engineers, and you will write and review code yourself. What you will do: Own software delivery across the platform: architecture, performance, code quality and release disciplineSolve a real performance-to-market problem: this system does heavy computation and it has to run fast enough for live clinical useSet the engineering bar in a world of AI-assisted coding. Speed matters here, but in a medical device every line has to stand up to scrutiny, so you will define how the team uses these tools without letting quality slipBuild the practices a regulated software team needs, without drowning a startup in processGrow the team through the next phase of hiring Who you are: A strong engineer first, a leader second. You still shipDeep experience with Python and performance-critical systems; computer vision or ML experience strongly preferredYou have raised the quality and speed of a team before, and can show howExperience with regulated software (medical devices, IEC 62304 or similar safety-critical domains) is a significant advantageYou care about doing it right and doing it fast, and you do not accept that those are opposites Message me or apply. Full company details shared at first conversation.