Lead Engineer

At Leapcure, we are passionate about empowering patients and clinical teams to navigate complex recruitment challenges with ease. We are reshaping the patient experience in research through an empathetic and caring approach to handhold patients through their clinical trial journey. Together with our digital solutions, we increase patient engagement and simplify the recruitment processes to bring patients, sponsors, and clinical teams together; ultimately, streamlining and accelerating clinical trials.

Leapcure is at the forefront of EQuitable clinical trials. To us, #EQuitable clinical trials means ensuring diverse patient representation, creating fair access and promoting inclusive research that leads to treatments benefiting everyone.Through digital transformation and our patient success team, we’re redefining clinical research to be more diverse, equitable, inclusive and accessible.

We partner with leading research organizations and pharmaceutical companies globally to run EQuitable and impactful clinical studies. Our work spans North America, Europe, and beyond, making real-world contributions to healthcare. By combining patient-centric technology with our strategic expertise, we aim to bring therapies to market faster and with higher engagement from underrepresented communities.

Our culture is defined by our core values – Gravity, Trust, Empathy, Difficult Truths and Appreciation. We encourage curiosity and autonomy, focus on driving impact in healthcare, champion open communication and teamwork, and strive to foster an inclusive and supportive environment.

Join our growing, innovative team in our mission to reshape the future of clinical research.

The Opportunity

You'll be working directly with our Senior Director of Product Management, Catherine Chan, within our engineering team to shape and scale the architecture of our platform. You will collaborate closely with our operations team, led by Dylan Berkenfeld (COO), to build impactful solutions. As the Lead Engineer, you will play a critical role in technical leadership and strategic decision-making, helping to transform clinical trials with innovative, scalable software solutions.

Your responsibilities are broken down into three different viewpoints:

0 ft - Execution/Individual Contributor-based work (60%)

• Lead the technical architecture and build scalable, high-quality, and maintainable solutions for our platform.
• Write clean, testable code, and establish best engineering practices that align with Leapcure’s security and compliance needs.
• Collaborate with other engineers to troubleshoot, debug, and optimize code for performance.
• Implement and refine technical designs for new features, ensuring they align with product vision and user needs.
• Conduct code reviews, provide mentorship to junior engineers, and foster a culture of quality and collaboration.
• Stay updated on the latest engineering trends, frameworks, and best practices to ensure our tech stack remains at the cutting edge.

10,000 ft - Team Culture and Collaboration (25%)

• Help foster a culture of technical excellence, creativity, and innovation across engineering and product teams.
• Facilitate collaboration between engineering and other departments (such as product management and customer success) to ensure a holistic product development process.
• Guide technical discussions, propose system improvements, and actively contribute to our technical roadmap.

30,000 ft - Engineering Strategy and Vision (15%)

• Influence engineering strategy by bringing a system-wide perspective to the table, collaborating with leadership to ensure our technology aligns with long-term business goals.
• Promote a technical culture of continuous improvement, where learnings are shared and applied to future projects.
• Define success metrics for engineering initiatives and establish KPIs to track the performance and impact of new features and system enhancements.
• Love to have ownership of the end-to-end development process and work independently on a small team where you will have a lot of impact.

What you bring to the table

You will thrive at Leapcure if you:

• Have a strong technical background with 5+ years of experience as a software engineer, preferably in Ruby on Rails and AWS environments.
• Are a systems thinker who can design scalable, secure, and reliable architectures in a high-growth, rapidly changing environment.
• Have a track record of technical leadership in building and maintaining complex, customer-facing platforms, ideally in the healthcare or clinical research space.
• Enjoy leading by example and mentoring a team, empowering them to do their best work.
• Are passionate about driving impact in healthcare technology and believe in leveraging tech for good.
• Have excellent communication skills, can translate complex technical concepts into non-technical terms, and work cross-functionally with product, sales, and marketing teams.
• Adapt quickly to change and are comfortable navigating uncertainty, turning challenges into opportunities.

*Mission: *To lead the technical development and scaling of Leapcure’s technologies, ensuring robust, scalable, and secure solutions that empower patients, clinical teams, sponsors and all stakeholder collaboration.

Outcomes:

• System Uptime: Aim for 99.5% with no more than 2 incidents in 6 months.
• Code Reviews/Technical Debt: Reduce technical debt by 10% in a year.
• Project Delivery: Deliver 80% of features on time.
• Productivity: Increase team velocity by 5% per quarter and bug resolution time by 2.5% per quarter.
• Scalability: Focus on improving platform and site performance by 10%.
• Collaboration: Keep positive team sentiment at 85% week over week.

Competencies:

• Technical Leadership: Demonstrated ability to lead engineering teams and define technical roadmaps, with a focus on scalable solutions.
• Problem Solving: Ability to troubleshoot complex systems and innovate technical solutions to overcome challenges in the clinical trial space.
• Collaboration & Communication: Excellent at aligning technical needs with business goals, effectively communicating between engineering, ops, and external stakeholders.
• Security & Compliance: In-depth knowledge of healthcare security standards and ability to implement best practices.

** Perks at Leapcure:**

• Competitive salary and equity packages ($180,000 to $250,000)
• Health and wellness benefits
• Flexible work arrangements – fully remote with occasional in-person team events to collaborate together
• Professional development budget to attend conferences and take courses that advance your skills.
• A high-growth, supportive environment with the opportunity to make a meaningful impact.

Location:
We are a fully remote company, hiring across the US and Canada, with flexible hours to accommodate various time zones.

Leapcure is a proud equal opportunity workplace that is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. We’re looking for motivated and compassionate people who can execute from the ground up and support the work that Leapcure believes in.

Leapcure is committed to developing an inclusive, barrier-free recruitment process and work environment. Should you require any accommodation, please inform us, and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs. For any accessibility-related assistance, requests for information in accessible alternative formats, or to report any accessibility problems, please share in your application.