Director of Technology

Position summary

The Director of Technology leads Regara's product and platform engineering as the company scales. Regara is not hiring a CTO at this stage, so this is the senior-most engineering role on the product side, owning the architecture, reliability, and security of the application, backend, infrastructure, and integrations that turn the AI intelligence core into a product regulatory teams trust. The role partners closely with the Director of AI, who owns the intelligence and retrieval core. It is a hands-on technical leader and team-builder.

Key responsibilities

• Own the technical roadmap and architecture for Regara's product, platform, and infrastructure.
• Lead and grow product and platform engineering (today, the Lead Product & Platform Engineer).
• Set direction for a scalable, reliable, secure application and backend — the workspace, APIs, and data layer.
• Own platform security, data protection, and audit-readiness with the relevant owners.
• Own the integrations that fit Regara into customers' stack (Veeva, MasterControl, Greenlight Guru) and the eCTD/eSTAR/IDMP exports.
• Establish engineering practices — planning, code quality, testing, CI/CD, and observability.
• Partner with the Director of AI at the boundary between the product and the intelligence layers.
• Make build/buy and vendor decisions; manage technical cost, latency, and reliability.
• Recruit, mentor, and retain engineering talent; set levels and technical standards.

Qualifications

Required

• 10+ years in software engineering, including engineering leadership (Director, Head of Engineering, or equivalent).
• Strong architecture skills for scalable, reliable, secure web platforms (frontend, backend, cloud/DevOps).
• Solid grounding in security, reliability, and data protection.
• Proven record building and leading engineering teams and shipping production software.
• Clear communication and the ability to partner with a founder-CEO and peer leaders.
• Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science or a related field.

Preferred

• Experience in regulated, high-stakes, or accuracy-critical domains (healthcare, life sciences, legal, finance).
• Experience with enterprise integrations and document-management systems.
• Experience in an early-stage company scaling from a small founding team.

What success looks like

Within the first year, Regara has a scalable, secure, reliable platform, the core integrations and submission exports work without re-formatting, engineering practices are in place, and the product/platform team is growing and well-led — working in lockstep with the Director of AI.