Engineering Director - Health Companion App - Paris (x/f/m)
The opportunity
Founded in 2013, Doctolib is Europe's leading AI and digital health company, serving 520,000 health professionals and 90 million people. We are turning our patient-facing product into Europe's first broadly available, AI-powered Health Companion - and simultaneously launching a significant B2C subscription business from scratch.
With the #1 health app in Europe and a brand people genuinely love, this is not a greenfield bet. It is a platform with unmatched distribution, being transformed into something far more powerful that will help every person in Europe live healthier.
Your mission: build the best health experience ever created and help turn Doctolib's consumer product from a massive free service into one of the company's next major growth engines.
As a key equity stakeholder, you will help shape - and directly benefit from - Doctolib's path to IPO in the coming years.
The role
We're looking for an Engineering Director to lead our Health Companion organization. Reporting to the VP of Engineering, Health Companion, you will oversee 4 engineering teams and their managers — including our flagship Health Companion for Parents of young children, built within the Doctolib app, which helps parents manage their children's appointments, documents, and health journey together.
Your teams will own:
- An AI-powered health chat combining medical expertise with rigorous safety and accuracy standards
- Personalised recommendation systems delivering relevant health content and guidance
- Engaging native mobile experiences making health management intuitive and accessible
- Growth and expansion strategies to scale these services across Europe
Your impact
- Lead and grow a high-performing engineering organization of +25 talents, mentoring managers and staff engineers across mobile and backend domains — building a culture of technical excellence and velocity
- Set the technical vision and strategy for Patient Health Companions, ensuring alignment with Doctolib's business and product roadmap
- Own the technical direction across AI chat, recommendation systems, and mobile — setting the standard for quality and pace of execution
- Define engineering practices and architecture that enable rapid experimentation at scale (18M documents shared per month, 40M teleconsultations delivered to date)
- Partner with Product, Design, Medical, and Data teams to ensure solutions address real clinical needs and deliver outstanding user experiences
- Drive acquisition and expansion strategies to extend Health Companion services across Europe
- Influence Doctolib's long-term technical architecture and help position the company as Europe's definitive health technology platform
Your team
Reporting to our VP of Engineering, Health Companion, you’ll get to work with Leo Lanzarotti (VP Product, Patient), Anna-Karin Edstedt Bonamy (Chief Medical Officer) and Axel Colin de Verdière (AI Health Assistant, Engineering Director)’s teams. You will also partner closely with Data, AI, Design, Marketing, Strategy, Compliance, and country teams.
Your profile
You have led engineering organisations at scale and know what it takes to ship great products fast, durably, and without sacrificing quality. You think in systems — technical and organisational — and you are as comfortable setting a multi-year architecture direction as you are making a hard technical call. You thrive in fast-moving environments and bring clarity where others see complexity.
Core qualifications:
- 5+ years