Director of Software Engineering

Ortho Fi is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.

This role is hybrid, based in our Denver office, with a presence 2 days a week.

Ortho Fi is seeking an experienced and passionate Director of Engineering who thrives on collaborative problem-solving and innovation. Ortho Fi has experienced rapid growth over the last 10+ years, and we are now expanding our engineering organization to meet the demands of a fast-evolving healthcare technology landscape. This role is a unique opportunity to lead both established product delivery teams and a growing AI-focused capability, driving technical excellence across a diverse and distributed organization.

You will work closely with Ortho Fi's technical leadership to deliver complex product initiatives while simultaneously building and scaling AI-driven solutions that transform how we serve our customers. Your teams span product delivery, platform engineering, and applied AI — requiring you to be equally fluent in shipping reliable software at scale and incubating new capabilities with a startup mindset.

• Provide direct leadership to Engineering Managers and team leads across product delivery and AI teams, including performance management, career development, and employee engagement.
• Lead and grow a distributed organization spanning onsite, offshore, and contract staff across multiple work streams.
• Foster a culture of accountability, psychological safety, and continuous improvement across all teams.
• Partner with Talent Acquisition to hire strong engineers and managers, building motivated and high-performing teams.

• Own end-to-end delivery accountability for product engineering teams, ensuring fast, predictable, and agile execution aligned with customer expectations and business objectives.
• Collaborate closely with Product Management to guide feature decisions, effort estimations, and roadmap prioritization.
• Drive consistent rigor in engineering processes — including sprint planning, estimation, dependency management, and release coordination.
• Manage team budget and staffing, balancing FTE, offshore, and contract resources to optimize delivery capacity.
• Lead the strategy, development, and scaling of Ortho Fi's AI engineering team, translating business opportunities into applied AI solutions.
• Partner with technical leadership and product stakeholders to identify, prioritize, and deliver AI-powered capabilities that create measurable customer and business value.
• Establish engineering practices appropriate for AI development, including experimentation frameworks, model lifecycle management, and responsible AI principles.
• Stay current on applied AI trends relevant to healthcare technology and bring forward-looking thinking to Ortho Fi's technical strategy.
• Ensure consistency in software architecture across all teams and work streams, in partnership with the Architecture team.
• Provide oversight of platform engineering, Dev Ops, and database functions to ensure a stable, scalable, and secure foundation.
• Take accountability for technical decisions including architecture choices, coding standards, development estimations, and progress tracking.
• Champion engineering excellence through CI/CD practices, test automation, and continuous improvement.

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• 15+ years of software engineering experience, including hands‑on coding and architectural design.
• 10+ years of people management experience, with 3+ years of experience managing managers
• Proven track record managing and delivering complex software products on time and within budget.
• Experience building or scaling AI/ML-powered products or teams, with an understanding of the unique challenges of applied AI development.
• Expertise in Agile development methodologies…