[HD073] - Senior Back End Engineer

ZAVA UK; Valencia; A distancia; EUR 40.000 - 60.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

A leading digital healthcare provider is seeking a remote Back-end Engineer to build scalable solutions and collaborate with cross-functional teams across Europe. Candidates should have strong problem-solving skills, experience with AWS, and service/API development proficiency in GoLang, PHP, or Node.js. Join us to help influence the future of healthcare technology in a flexible and innovative environment.

Servicios

Competitive salary

Flexible working hours

Training budget

Bonus scheme

Dog-friendly office environment

Formación

• Excellent communication skills for effective collaboration in an Agile environment.
• Strong problem-solving skills, including debugging and analysis.
• Understanding of programming best practices.
• Ability to make informed decisions about technical debt and tradeoffs.

Responsabilidades

• Collaborate closely within a cross-functional team to contribute to the roadmap.
• Maintain excellence and quality in code, ensuring high standards of testing.
• Foster innovation by staying updated on software technology trends.

Conocimientos

Excellent communication skills

Strong problem-solving skills

Understanding of programming best practices

Experience with Amazon Web Services

Service and API development experience

Herramientas

Code versioning tools (e.g., Github)

CI tools (preferably Jenkins)

Docker

Monitoring tools (e.g., New Relic, Kibana)

Relational and non-relational databases (e.g., MySQL, DynamoDB)

Descripción del empleo

About Zava

We're an online doctor service and currently one of the largest digital healthcare players in Europe, offering fast, convenient, and reliable access to medical advice, testing, and treatment. Since 2011, we've provided over 6 million paid consultations to patients across Germany, France, UK, and Ireland, and we want to do more. Our goal is to break down barriers to health and provide accessible, dependable healthcare to even more patients. We are looking for smart, curious people to help us expand our services, patient offerings, and explore how to support statutory healthcare systems.

About the role

We're seeking an enthusiastic Back-end Engineer passionate about building scalable, performant products that make a genuine difference. You will work remotely from Spain, collaborating live with teams across Europe.

What can you expect from working with us?

Chance to influence the future of healthcare—technology has enabled Zava to achieve efficiency gains in healthcare. You will have the opportunity to recommend how our technology should evolve.

Opportunity to drive our technological direction—our platform is still in development, offering many opportunities to design, build, and operate new systems.

Agile, cross-functional working—our autonomous teams include Product Owners, UI/UX Designers, QA, Front and Back-end Engineers, and collaborators from Infrastructure, Data, Clinical, Marketing, and Legal departments.

Competitive salary, flexible working, and benefits—beyond salary, we offer a bonus scheme, training budget, dedicated R&D time, personal learning, and flexible schedules. Our central London office features free breakfast, fresh fruit, hot drinks, and a dog-friendly environment.

Day-to-day responsibilities

Collaborate closely within a cross-functional team—contribute to the roadmap, identify opportunities, discuss priorities, make decisions, design solutions, and remove blockers, understanding how your work fits into overall delivery.

Maintain excellence and quality—ensure your code is of high quality, well-tested (unit, integration, end-to-end), and monitored. Provide and receive constructive feedback.

Foster innovation—stay updated on software technology trends and consider their application within Zava's landscape.

For this role you will need

Excellent communication skills for effective collaboration in an Agile (Kanban) environment.

Strong problem-solving skills, including debugging and analysis.

Understanding of programming best practices.

Ability to make informed decisions about technical debt and tradeoffs, and recognize when to seek help or consider alternative solutions.

Experience with Amazon Web Services.

Service and API development experience in GoLang, PHP, or Node.js.

While not essential, experience with the following will help you get up to speed:

Code versioning tools (e.g., Github)

CI tools (preferably Jenkins)

Docker

Monitoring tools (e.g., New Relic, Kibana)

Relational and non-relational databases (e.g., MySQL, DynamoDB)