Backend Engineer — Health SaaS, Cloud & Security

Machine Medicine Technologies; England; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation and benefits

Job summary

Machine Medicine Technologies is seeking a Backend Developer to design, build and maintain cloud infrastructure for a healthcare SaaS platform handling sensitive data. You will contribute to production code, deployments and security, working closely with the Platform Lead.

The role covers backend development, production support, release processes and infrastructure as code, with a focus on reliability and regulatory compliance in a fast-paced startup environment.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of commercial software development experience.
• Production experience with Typescript, NestJS (or similar).
• Experience with ORM/data-access approaches.
• Strong production PostgreSQL experience.
• Experience building and supporting SaaS platforms or production backend services.
• Experience designing and maintaining REST APIs.
• Hands-on experience supporting production systems.
• Working knowledge of AWS and/or GCP.
• Ability to work with Terraform or similar IaC tooling.
• Strong understanding of application security and secure coding practices.
• Experience with systems where reliability and data protection are important.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain and support backend services using TypeScript, NestJS and TypeORM.
• Develop REST APIs and backend components.
• Work with PostgreSQL, including schema design and migrations.
• Support production systems, monitoring, troubleshooting and incident response.
• Maintain and improve GitHub-based CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows.
• Work with Terraform and cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP).
• Support secure configuration, access control, audit logging and least-privilege practices.
• Write clean, tested, production-ready code.
• Document backend systems and deployment procedures as needed.

Skills

TypeScript

NestJS

TypeORM

PostgreSQL

REST APIs

GitHub

CI/CD

AWS

GCP

Terraform

Security

SaaS

Tools

TypeORM

PostgreSQL

GitHub

CI/CD Pipelines

Terraform

Job description

Machine Medicine Technologies is seeking a Backend Developer to design, build and maintain cloud infrastructure for a healthcare SaaS platform handling sensitive data. You will contribute to production code, deployments and security, working closely with the Platform Lead.

The role covers backend development, production support, release processes and infrastructure as code, with a focus on reliability and regulatory compliance in a fast-paced startup environment.