Director of Engineering

About the role

📍 Oslo
💰 Salary: 1,400,000 – 1,600,000 NOK

Four years ago, Aidn was just an idea. Today, we offer the best EHR in Norway and are the market leader in the municipal healthcare sector. It would be hard to overstate how rewarding that journey has been—but it is just the beginning.
As Aidn matures from startup to industry leader, we will do more than offer a great product. We will become the healthcare platform that elevates the entire ecosystem. This process will force us to level up continuously. The next few years will be hard, even by the standards of some of the most capable people around. But that’s what will make them special.
During these transition years, a particular area of focus will be how we leverage our platform and its underlying services to give ourselves the speed and flexibility needed to improve our existing products while expanding into new markets. Whoever is leading this product area will be in the driver’s seat for one of the most critical initiatives in one of the most influential companies in Norway. They will learn and do more in the next two years than most people will in ten years at other companies.
If that sounds like your cup of tea, read on.
The team
Aidn’s product, design, and engineering departments work cross-functionally from top to bottom. The CTO and CPO work in tight collaboration every day. Directors and product teams are expected to work in the same manner.
You will work in a cross-functional leadership team alongside a product director and a design director. Together, you will own the product area that sits between our market-oriented areas, including PLO, helsestasjon, and patients/next-of-kin, and our platform area, which covers low-level concerns such as infrastructure, IAM, data analytics, integrations, and archive.
This middle space builds upon our platforms, providing reusable domain services and common orchestration patterns to our user-facing products. Today, the area includes agentic services, chat, notifications, navigation, training, and personalization, but it will soon also include core concepts like the journal, forms, labs, e-prescription and tasks.
Problems we're working on right now include:
How do we build agentic services that can be used everywhere in our products while maintaining enough governance and control to satisfy medical device regulation (MDR)?

How do we provide up-to-date training for thousands of health care workers across multiple roles without requiring classroom instruction?

How do we offer personalized views for different roles and products without polluting our code with conditionals?

Where are the boundaries between core domain services and role-based workflow services?

How should our logical architecture be structured to support a multi-product, multi-surface, platform-enabled Aidn?

The role
As an engineering director, you will have the freedom to make real decisions and will have accountability for the technical outcomes and engineers in your product area.
Your core responsibilities will include:
Defining the delivery strategy for your area with your peers—ensuring area goals align with company goals, workload is sustainable, and capacity needs are within budget—and owning the technical outcomes from your product teams

Managing risks and dependencies in your area with your peers, helping teams make mitigation plans and following up when those plans cross team boundaries.

Setting the standard for how non-functional work is surfaced, discussed, and prioritized in your area and across Aidn.

Owning the architectural direction for your area, defining goals and success metrics in collaboration with principal and staff engineers and supporting their concrete plans.

Defining and maintaining the engineering standards in your area, ensuring quality and performance levels are aligned with the company’s objectives and risk appetite.

Setting the bar for AI-native engineering across your area, including how AI is implemented in the product, how it enhances our pipelines and tools, and what guardrails are needed to make agents the safest and most productive approach for generating code.

Leading and coaching engineering leaders in your teams, ensuring they have the context to make decisions quickly and confidently and providing the feedback and support they need to grow professionally.

Carrying your own weight by sharing the operational burden of running your area in whatever way is needed whenever it is needed.

Engineering directors report directly to the CTO. In addition to the day-to-day responsibilities listed above, you will be expected to be a strategic sparring partner to the C-suite. No single person can understand every corner of Aidn’s universe. To succeed, Aidn needs directors with comprehensive command of their areas and the courage to challenge senior managers when needed.
What we're looking for
We hire for attitude as much as for aptitude. Having the right mindset—curiosity, ownership, a collaborative spirit—matters more than ticking every competency box.
That said, you'll thrive here if you have:
A legitimate background as a working engineer that is immediately credible to our most senior individual contributors

Significant experience owning the strategy and execution of a multi-team product area in an established, successful company

A proven track record of taking on responsibility and getting shit done

AI-native work habits, as well as the curiosity and willingness to continuously improve in this area

The ability to communicate ideas effectively through documents, presentations, and conversations

Strong people management and coaching skills

Energy to spare and a good sense of humor

Our core technology stack is PostgreSQL, C# .Net, and React + Typescript. Experience with our exact stack is not an important success criteria for this role. Directors are leaders, not programmers.
Having written that, it is important for you to be a credible engineer in some adjacent technology. If you cannot understand the technical challenges our teams face or spar with them on possible solution paths, it is difficult to see how you could develop realistic strategies or follow-up on execution in a meaningful way.
Similarly, we cannot ignore how rapidly AI is changing the software development landscape. This is a sea change on the order of the Internet. AI proficiency is a non-negotiable skill directors must possess.
What you get
Aidn offers a comprehensive set of benefits, including:
Competitive salary + employee shares

6 weeks vacation

Wellness stipend

Flexible hours

Flexible location — working from home, or occasionally abroad, is totally fine, but the team is co-located in Oslo and would love to see you at the office regularly

In addition, engineering directors at Aidn are afforded the rare opportunity to test their limits in one of Norway’s most important and most dynamic companies. You will:
Help solve some of the hardest, most urgent problems facing our society

Have direct influence on how our products are built

Shape how AI is used in the healthcare sector

Report to a C-level manager invested in your personal growth

Finally, as a member of the Kernel family, Aidn has access to advisors across the healthcare ecosystem, long-runway capital, and the strategic partnerships needed to break down today's siloed landscape. Aidn recognizes and celebrates diversity in all its forms, visible and non-visible in all areas of the work environment. We work to promote an anti-discriminatory environment where everyone feels safe and welcome.
Read our full Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging policy in our handbook here . Are you curious? We welcome you to check out our employee handbook to get to know us, some of our benefits, and what drives us.
Deadline for application: 14.08.2026