Head of Engineering (Frontend)

TL;DR

Head of Engineering (Frontend): Own and shape the frontend technical vision and architecture across web, mobile, and immersive platforms with an accent on quality, performance, accessibility, and reliability. Focus on leading critical technical decisions, guiding long-term evolution of the frontend stack, and mentoring senior engineers within a large-scale, user-facing product environment.

Location: Remote (Europe). The company operates as Remote First with engineers distributed across European cities including London, Berlin, Stockholm, Chamonix, Hamburg, Lisbon, Marseille, Vilnius, and Manchester. Software engineers based in Stockholm may work one day a week or every two weeks from the office.

Company

hirify.global is a Swedish healthcare technology company co-founded in 2018, focused on shifting healthcare from reactive treatment toward preventative health and early detection using new medical scanning technology and AI.

What you will do

• Own the frontend technical vision and architecture across web, mobile, and immersive platforms.
• Set and enforce engineering standards for quality, performance, accessibility, and reliability.
• Lead critical technical decisions and guide long-term evolution of the frontend stack.
• Partner with Product, Design, Backend, and Hardware to deliver complex, user-facing features.
• Mentor senior engineers and shape frontend culture, hiring, and progression.
• Ensure frontend systems scale with product growth and organizational complexity.

Requirements

• Proven experience leading and scaling teams building large-scale user-facing products.
• Strong full-stack background with deep expertise in modern frontend architectures.
• Strong experience either hands-on or leading multiple teams across web, mobile (native or cross-platform), and complex UI systems.
• Track record of metrics-driven development (UX, engagement, performance, reliability).
• Experience owning deployment, release, and lifecycle of frontend systems tied to backend services.
• Ability to influence technical direction and align stakeholders at senior levels.

Culture & Benefits

• Distributed and Remote First engineering team of nearly 100 full-time engineers.
• Flexible workplace with a focus on work/life balance.
• Opportunity to meet a couple of times per year for team building and fun.
• Engineering teams are divided into smaller cross-functional project teams.
• Groups track goals on a yearly and quarterly basis with bi-weekly follow-up and internal planning.
• Bi-weekly engineering demos to share progress, failures, or hacks across the organization.