AI Product Engineer — Impact Health Tech

Pelago Health; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Pelago Health in Greater London is seeking a senior product engineer to own end-to-end product areas, from discovery through production and iteration. You will collaborate with product, design, data, and clinical teams to deliver secure, observable software across the stack, guided by data and experiments to validate impact.

You will operate autonomously in a distributed environment, balancing speed with safety in a regulated domain and helping evolve our AI-native development practices as we

Qualifications

• Strong production experience building product software in a startup or scale-up.
• Excellent TypeScript/Node capability across APIs, services and cloud.
• Solid testing, observability, and reliability instincts.
• Fluent with AI-augmented engineering workflows while preserving QA.
• Experience in healthcare or safety-critical software is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own meaningful product areas end-to-end—from problem framing to production rollout.
• Partner with product, design, data, and clinical teams to shape solutions.
• Build and evolve secure, well-tested software across backend, frontend and data surfaces.
• Use data and experiments to validate outcomes and drive iteration.
• Operate autonomously in ambiguous environments with proactive cross-team communication.
• Make sound trade-offs balancing speed, safety, and maintainability in a regulated domain.
• Improve Pelago's engineering system with AI-native practices and better tooling.

Skills

TypeScript/Node

Product sense

Autonomy in ambiguous env

Testing & observability

AI-augmented workflows

Tools

Serverless AWS

Relational databases

Infrastructure as code

Job description

Pelago Health in Greater London is seeking a senior product engineer to own end-to-end product areas, from discovery through production and iteration. You will collaborate with product, design, data, and clinical teams to deliver secure, observable software across the stack, guided by data and experiments to validate impact.

You will operate autonomously in a distributed environment, balancing speed with safety in a regulated domain and helping evolve our AI-native development practices as we