Description:
We are looking for a Full-Stack focused Software Engineer to join our cross-functional Participant Engagement squad. You'll be helping participants stay connected to Our Future Health, giving them clear, meaningful reasons to return to the platform, understand the impact of their involvement, and feel confident taking part in future research.
Our tech-stack includes Python, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Terraform (IaC), running in Azure (Kubernetes and Azure AppService). Our engineers are full-stack, handling frontend, backend and infrastructure in a total ownership model - squads build and run it.
Experimentation will be a key part of the role, so we're looking for someone who brings initiative, is comfortable exploring ideas, and can help us validate what resonates before we invest in longer-term solutions.
The role combines practical engineering with opportunities to influence how engagement evolves, helping us deliver quick wins today while laying the groundwork for long-term impact on participant trust, confidence, and research readiness.
In this role, you will:
- Work in a small, growing team where you'll contribute both to early design and hands-on delivery
- Help shape and build the experiences that deepen participant understanding and motivation, making thoughtful decisions about what to develop, when to reuse, and how to optimise the journeys people already see
- Design and implement systems that encourage people to return, explore insights, share additional data, and take part in studies
- As the work is still in its early stages, you'll often move across the stack, from front-end features built with TypeScript and modern frameworks to backend and data-driven work in Python, depending on what the problem calls for
- Learn from real behaviour and iterate quickly based on what works
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 building cloud-hosted consumer applications using open source technologies such as Python or Node
- Knowledge of modern frontend development, including JavaScript/TypeScript with frameworks like React or Next.js, and experience building intuitive, user-focused interfaces
- Experience working on backend systems - ideally using Python - for data movement, processing, and storage
- Experience working on consumer-facing products where experimentation, rapid iteration, and learning from user behaviour are important
- Prior experience with Azure (ideally), AWS or GCP
- Knowledge of how to work with Infrastructure as Code, ideally Terraform
- Knowledge of good data modelling and design patterns; knowledge of relational databases (e.g. PostgreSQL) and familiarity with other types of data store (blob, document, graph)
- Good experience with 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 cross-functional teams consisting of e.g. engineers, product, UX 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
- Understanding of software quality principles and practices
- Comfortable sharing knowledge and helping others
- Comfortable taking part in technical discussions