Lead/Senior Full stack Software Engineer
Our Future Health, United Kingdom
Job Description
We are hiring a Lead/Senior Software Engineer to design, build and operate the platforms that power Our Future Health. This is an exciting opportunity to join the UK’s largest ever research programme! In this role, you will join a small team that will enable us to delivery our mission of enabling cutting edge health research across a cohort of 5 million volunteers!
At Our Future Health, our mission is to transform the prevention,?detection?and treatment of conditions such as dementia, cancer, diabetes, heart disease and stroke. We’re looking for people to join us on our journey. If you’re looking for a new challenge where you can contribute to helping future generations live in good health for longer, then we’re keen to speak with you.
Requirements
What you’ll be doing:
- You’ll be hands-on with the development of new features, removal of tech debt and contributing to continuously improving the quality of the code base
- Get to work closely with your colleagues with pairing, peer reviews, coaching, discussion, and other collaborative activities which elevate everyone to reach high standards and result in the delivery of high-quality software products
- Engaging in collaborative sessions towards refining requirements, formulating architectural proposals in support of upcoming initiatives
- Engage in reflective sessions such as retrospectives or incident post-mortems contributing, suggestions on how we can improve
- Participating in live operations support rotations that monitors live systems and quickly and effectively react to potential incidents and provide support to operations teams such as customer support. This could include being part of an out of hours on-call rotation.
- You’ll have the ability to participate in wider engineering initiatives that look to evolve highly effective ways of working that fit Our Future Health and our engineering community
- Looking to the future, you'll be contributing to the future technology strategy, considering how technology trends may be leveraged at Our Future Health
What you won’t be doing
- Working in a siloed environment with no freedom to make decisions.
- Working in a place where you can’t see the impact your expertise makes
Requirements
To succeed in this role you will be able to demonstrate a large portion of the following skills and experience:
- Knowledge and experience of using Node.js and Typescript in the development of solutions in a commercial, public service, charitable or similar setting
- Experience working in cross-functional agile teams on large-scale consumer-facing web applications in both frontend and backend
- Prior experience with Azure (ideally), AWS or GCP
- Comfortable working with Infrastructure as Code, ideally with knowledge of Terraform
- Knowledge of good data modelling and design patterns; in-depth knowledge of relational databases (e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g. MongoDB)
- Experience working with best practices like code review, TDD and pairing using tools like Git, GitHub or Azure DevOps
- Experience with operationally managing software components once live, including; observability, logging, metrics, error reporting, debugging and live incident management
- Experience working with sensitive personal data
- Knowledge of setting up and modifying CI/CD pipelines
- Proven ability to communicate with stakeholders and audiences at different levels
- Ability to lead by example and encourage software engineering best practices
- Experience in mentoring and coaching less experienced team members
Benefits
Benefits
- Generous company pension package with employer contributions of up to 12%.
- 30 days annual leave (plus bank holidays.)
- Continuous career development with regular appraisals and learning and development opportunities.
- A lovely new office in Holborn, Central London we offer flexible and remote working arrangements