Software Development Director, Getinge Digital Health Solutions

With a passion for life

Join our diverse teams of passionate people and a career that allows you to develop both personally and professionally. At Getinge we exist to make life-saving technology accessible for more people. To make a true difference for our customers – and to save more lives, we need team players, forward thinkers, and game changers.

Are you looking for an inspiring career? You just found it.

About this opportunity

Are you ready to lead 40+ engineers on a mission to build cutting-edge cloud solutions for the healthcare industry?

Within Digital Health Solutions (DHS), we develop modern, cloud-native applications while continuously evolving and modernizing our existing software portfolio. This role goes beyond leading software teams — it is a unique opportunity to build a new R&D site from the ground up.

As Software Development Director, you will be the senior R&D leader in our new Hamburg office, opening in mid-April. From day one, you will set the technical direction, culture, and ways of working, while integrating closely with our established R&D organization across Europe. Your mission is to ensure Hamburg becomes a core pillar of our long-term R&D strategy, not a satellite office.

In this role, your primary responsibility will be to shape high-performing software development teams, ensure delivery excellence, and drive a strong culture of quality, collaboration, and continuous improvement — all aligned with Getinge’s platform-first, cloud-native ambition.

What you will do

In this senior leadership role, you will:

• Lead and scale software development: Set technical direction and be accountable

for planning, cost, quality, and delivery across all development activities in your department.

• Build and lead high-performing teams: Recruit, develop, coach, and mentor managers and engineers, ensuring strong leadership pipelines and long-term competence growth.
• Drive collaboration and execution: Work closely with Product Management, peers in DHS R&D, and other global stakeholders to ensure alignment with business and customer needs and commercial priorities, translating strategy into clear outcomes and accountable execution.
• Drive customer and business impact: Translate customer needs and commercial priorities into clear engineering outcomes, ensuring teams take ownership from problem to result and consistently deliver measurable value.
• Establish strong processes and quality culture: Ensure compliance with quality and regulatory requirements while facilitating continuous improvement and modern development practices.
• Shape the Hamburg R&D site: Lead organizational development, embed Getinge values, and create a culture that values customer impact, healthy challenge, and accountability.

This position is based in Hamburg, Germany. Due to the nature of the role and its site-building mandate, the position is mainly on-site, with collaboration across European R&D locations.

What you bring

To be successful in this position, we believe you have:

• A Master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of hands-on software development experience, combined with 5+ years of leadership experience managing managers and engineers in a product-focused environment.
• Proven experience leading complex, cross-team software initiatives, aligning technical execution with business goals.
• Solid understanding of modern software ecosystems and agile ways of working, including Scrum, cloud platforms, and DevOps practices.
• Experience with technologies such as .NET/C#, JavaScript, Blazor, SQL, Azure DevOps, Kubernetes, and Microsoft Azure (experience with parts of this stack is sufficient).

In addition to your technical background, we highly value your leadership personality. You are a confident, communicative leader who builds trust, develops people, and inspires teams through clarity, presence, and purpose. You thrive in a high-expectation environment and enjoy balancing strategic direction with hands-on leadership.

We believe you have a strong ambition for growth and a genuine curiosity for staying up to date with the latest developments in software engineering and digital health.

Why join Getinge

At Getinge, you will join a collaborative and purpose-driven environment where people development, trust, and openness are central. We offer:

• A senior leadership role with real mandate and impact
• The opportunity to build and shape a new R&D site
• A competitive compensation and benefits package, including wellness allowance and family-friendly benefits
• A culture founded on being Team Players, Forward Thinkers, and Game Changers

Together, we work to improve patient outcomes and optimize healthcare workflows — and we support our employees to grow while doing meaningful work.

Application

Applications will be reviewed continuously, and we encourage you to apply as soon as possible, but no later than 26-05-10. Please submit your application via our recruitment system by clicking “Apply now”. Due to GDPR regulations, we do not accept applications via e-mail.

If you have questions about the role, please contact Hiring Manager: Jacob Colding at jacob.colding@getinge.com or Talent Manager Emma Paulsson at: emma.paulsson@getinge.com.

We look forward to receiving your application and hope you will join us on our journey to become the world’s most desired MedTech company.

About us 

With a firm belief that every person and community should have access to the best possible care, Getinge provides hospitals and life science institutions with products and solutions aiming to improve clinical results and optimize workflows. The offering includes products and solutions for intensive care, cardiovascular procedures, operating rooms, sterile reprocessing and life science. Getinge employs over 12,000 people worldwide and the products are sold in more than 135 countries.  

Reasonable accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. 

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