Data Engineer

Flok Health; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Onsite gym

EMI equity (early stage)

Comprehensive medical coverage

Optional remote Wednesdays

Annual remote days allowance

Team feasts and vibrant culture

Job summary

Flok Health is building an AI-native healthcare platform in Cambridge, and we are seeking a data engineer who will own the data stack initially as the sole engineer focused on data. You’ll impact patient care by turning data into insights and scalable tooling.

You’ll analyse patient data, build a self-serve data platform, collaborate with engineering and UX, and help shape product decisions with data-driven questions and rigorous data practices.

Qualifications

• Strong programming in Python and its data science ecosystem.
• Experience turning research into production code.
• Good fluency in mathematics, statistics and information theory.
• Ability to collaborate with design/product teams to shape outcomes.
• Clear communication to technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Analyze patient data, run queries, and create visualisations and summaries.
• Build an internal data platform for self-serve data queries.
• Collaborate with UX to iterate app design using data-driven decisions.
• Propose questions to drive product decisions from data.
• Improve data model and storage with a focus on privacy and security.

Skills

Python

Data science

Production code

Mathematics

Communication

Job description

We're looking for a data engineer driven by patient impact and facilitating data driven decision making. We're still small, so you'd be the sole engineer focused solely on the data side of things (at least initially).

What You'll Do

Your day-to-day work will be impactful and varied, including:

• Analysing patient data - running queries to generate plots/visualisations and data summaries
• Building an internal data platform to allow non-technical colleagues to self-serve with their data queries
• Working with the UX team to iterate the app design and requirements through data driven decisions
• Coming up with interesting questions to ask about our data to inform product decisions
• Improving our application and data model to capture high quality data
• Exemplifying best practice for medical data storage, security and privacy

You’ll collaborate closely with the rest of the engineering / UX team, work directly with company leadership, and see the impact of your work on real patients.

About You

• You have strong programming skills in Python and its data science ecosystem
• You are a software professional, who knows the difference between research and production code
• You have good mathematical fluency (particularly around probability, statistics and information theory)
• You enjoy working with design and product teams to help shape exceptional products
• You care deeply about users - championing great experience and access to quality clinical care
• You can communicate your work clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
• You take initiative and ownership of your work

Bonus Points

Whilst not required, experience in any of these areas will definitely stand out - let us know if you have any!

• Working with medical data (or other sensitive data)
• Creating visual tools (e.g. interactive dashboards) for data exploration by others with good UX
• Good ML fundamentals (e.g. could build a small neural network from scratch)
• Data modelling (and versioning) of complex systems
• Startup experience

What We Offer

• Challenging work at the frontier of AI-native healthcare
• In-person collaborative culture in a beautiful work space in the Cambridgeshire countryside
• An onsite gym and digital health subscription of your choice
• Early stage equity with employee-friendly terms (via an EMI scheme)
• Comprehensive medical coverage (including dental and optical) and life insurance
• Optional remote working on Wednesdays, with an annual allowance of 10 extra remote days
• Desk setup allowance for your favourite keyboard / mouse / whatever!
• Monthly team feasts (and the BBQ is used most days)
• A fast paced work environment geared towards excellence and professional growth (with annual training budget)
• A chance to have a big impact in a small team transforming care and outcomes at population scale

About Flok

More than a billion people a year suffer unnecessarily from conditions like MSK pain, where the right treatment approach is well-established but undeliverable at scale. We're changing that. Our team has deep expertise across clinical, engineering, and regulated AI, has a track record of healthtech innovation, and is backed by top VCs and multiple unicorn founder angels.

• Solving hard problems at the intersection of technology and healthcare
• The pursuit of excellence—helping each other to do the best work of our careers
• Working in an in-person collaborative environment
• Taking ownership to have significant impact in a fast-growing mission-driven company with big ambitions