Backend Engineer for AI-Driven Health Platform (Equity)

Foundation Health; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Relocation assistance

Hybrid work in Manchester

Job summary

Foundation Health is hiring engineers in Manchester to help close the gap between healthcare and AI-driven productivity. You'll design and build backend systems that connect pharmacies, health systems and insurers, tackling distributed-systems challenges with reliability and correctness at the forefront.

Join a team led by seasoned engineers with a focus on practical AI integration, ownership, and fast iteration in a modern Node.js, TypeScript, and GCP stack.

Qualifications

• Strong engineering judgement is essential.
• Back-end depth and production systems experience.
• Ownership beyond the code and ability to explain decisions.
• Builder's mindset with a track record of delivering projects.
• Curiosity about AI and willingness to explore possibilities.
• Strong fundamentals in CS/math/physics/engineering.

Responsibilities

• Designing and building the back-end systems that connect pharmacies, health systems and insurers.
• Solving hard distributed-systems problems: event-driven workflows, retries, idempotency, data consistency and failure recovery.
• Owning substantial features from the initial problem through architecture, build, deployment and production.
• Making pragmatic technical decisions as we scale, without overengineering for problems we don't have yet.
• Building AI-powered capabilities into a live product, where reliability and correctness matter as much as speed.
• Working directly with product and engineering leadership to shape the roadmap, architecture and what we build next.

Skills

Strong engineering judgement

Back-end depth

Ownership beyond the code

Builder's mindset

Curiosity about AI

Strong fundamentals

Education

CS/Math/Physics/Engineering degree useful

Tools

Node.js

TypeScript

GCP

Job description

Foundation Health is hiring engineers in Manchester to help close the gap between healthcare and AI-driven productivity. You'll design and build backend systems that connect pharmacies, health systems and insurers, tackling distributed-systems challenges with reliability and correctness at the forefront.

Join a team led by seasoned engineers with a focus on practical AI integration, ownership, and fast iteration in a modern Node.js, TypeScript, and GCP stack.