Our Future Health is an ambitious collaboration between the public, charity and private sectors, designed to help people live healthier lives for longer through better prevention, earlier detection and improved treatment of diseases. We will speed up the discovery of new methods of early disease detection, and the evaluation of new diagnostic tools, to help identify and treat diseases early, when outcomes are usually better. With over 2.8M volunteers across the UK, we’re now the world’s biggest health research programme of its kind, and our volunteer group is also more diverse than other, similar health research programmes.
Technology and data are central to our mission. Our systems power web sites, clinics across the UK, secure analytics and research systems, pipelines that process highly sensitive health and genetic data, and we are continuing to grow our engineering capability to support this ambition.
We are hiring a backend leaning full-stack focused Senior Software Engineer to join our Research Enablement squad . This squad sits on the intersection of the Trusted Research Environment (TRE) and our bespoke security tooling and assets. Our squad vision is to create a secure, trusted and state of the art research environment to empower Researchers with their health research. We work closely with some of our internal operational teams as well as external partners, and are solving lots of rare but exciting problems.
Our engineers are full-stack, handling frontend, backend and infrastructure in a total ownership model - squads build and run it. The work is usually more back-end leaning involving event driven services, APIs and bespoke security checks, but front-end work is also a critical part of the overall service.
Our core tech-stack includes Typescript, Node.JS, PostgresSQL, WebAssembly, Terraform (IaC), running in Azure / Kubernetes .
If you are passionate about your work, develop consistently high-quality code, and are adept at identifying, preventing, and troubleshooting problems we would love to hear from you.
This role will be fully hybrid with the expectation we get together in our Holborn, London office at least once per month.
Requirements
We welcome applications from all who may not feel they match the full criteria, so if you have most of the below, we'd like to hear from you:
Technical Skills
Experience of building cloud-hosted applications, using Typescript and Node.JS in a start-up, public service, or charitable setting
Experience with GraphQL, React, WebAssembly and Python would be a nice to have
Prior experience with Azure (ideally), AWS or GCP
Comfortable working with Infrastructure as Code, ideally Terraform
Knowledge of good data modelling and design patterns; in-depth knowledge of relational databases (e.g. PostgreSQL) and familiarity other types of data stores
Good experience in using modern, agile development practices like code review, TDD, CI/CD and pairing using tools like Git and GitHub
Experience of operationally managing software components once live, including; observability, logging, metrics, error reporting, debugging and live incident management
Experience of working with sensitive personal data
Competencies
Experience working in/with cross-functional teams consisting of e.g. engineers, product, security and non-technical stakeholders
Ability to communicate with stakeholders and audiences outside your own team
Experience working in small, growing organisations with a high degree of ambiguity, where flexibility is valued
Strong understanding of software quality principles and practices
Comfortable in mentoring and coaching less experienced engineers
Comfortable in taking part in and sometimes facilitating technical discussions
Hiring Process
We feel hiring should be transparent and give you a real sense for what Our Future Health is like. Here's what you can expect:
Initial chat with our Talent team (30 min) to get to know each other, discuss the role, and answer any questions you have.
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