Head of Software Engineering

Company Description

M3 is the global leader in digital solutions in healthcare. We work with a range of sectors including healthcare, life sciences, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and charities; services provided to these sectors include market research, medical education programs, promotional programs, clinical development, job recruitment and clinic appointment services. M3 has grown by more than 20% year-on-year for the past 15 years, achieving over 1 billion dollars in revenue annually.

Founded in 2000, with start-up investment capital from Sony, M3’s mission is to make use of the internet to increase, as much as possible, the number of people who can live longer and healthier lives, and to reduce, as much as possible, the amount of unnecessary medical costs. Key achievements of M3 Inc. include:

• Named in Fortune’s 2020 ‘Future 50’ list, ahead of Facebook and Amazon
• Ranked in Forbes’ 2020 Global 2000 list of the world’s largest public companies
• M3 is the only company incorporated after the year 2000 to be included in the Nikkei 225 Index
• Listed in Forbes’ ‘Asia’s 200 Best Over a Billion’ in 2019
• In 2020 M3 founded the ‘M3: Stop COVID-19 Fund’ and pledged one billion yen to support COVID-19 related initiatives

Due to our continued growth, we are hiring for a Head of Software Engineering to join PracticeMatch, an M3 company.

About the Business Unit:

PracticeMatch is the industry leader in providing practicing physician and resident/fellow data and services to in-house physician staffing professionals and offers a continuum of services designed to provide a clear competitive hiring advantage to health organizations.

As the physician recruiting industry evolves, PracticeMatch continues to innovate with new solutions for physician sourcing, developing sourcing solutions enhanced with the power of PracticeMatch databases. With an in-house staff of experts, telemarketing, email marketing, and direct marketing, PracticeMatch offers healthcare sourcing solutions and customer service unsurpassed in the industry.

Job Description

Technology Strategy and Transformation

• Define and execute a multi-year technology roadmap that systematically modernizes PracticeMatch’s legacy ColdFusion and SQL Server platform, prioritizing migrations and rewrites based on business value, risk, and continuity.
• Partner with product and business leadership to align engineering priorities with PracticeMatch’s competitive strategy and customer outcomes.
• Establish a pragmatic, phased approach to system transformation — maintaining product stability and customer commitments while executing toward a modern, maintainable architecture.
• Evaluate and recommend modern technology choices (languages, frameworks, cloud infrastructure, data platforms) that position PracticeMatch for long-term scalability.
• Champion the responsible adoption of agentic AI across the engineering lifecycle — from planning, design, and development through testing, deployment, and production operations — ensuring engineers build the review discipline and repository context that make AI-assisted work reliable.

Engineering Leadership and Team Development

• Lead, manage, and develop the PracticeMatch engineering team, including direct and indirect reports across software engineering and QA functions.
• Build and sustain a culture of engineering excellence: clear standards for code quality, security, documentation, peer review, and test automation.
• Attract, recruit, and retain strong engineering talent; build career paths and development plans that grow engineers at every level.
• Conduct regular performance conversations; provide direct, constructive feedback; and add…