Python Product Engineer - HealthTech AI, Full-Stack UK

TRAKD; Slough; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

TRAKD is seeking a Product Engineer to join an early-stage HealthTech startup and own core features end-to-end. You’ll work on Python-based backend, APIs, data pipelines, and frontend touchpoints with React, collaborating closely with the CTO and clinical teams.

This role emphasizes pragmatic product thinking, shipping real product increments, and operating across the stack in a fast-moving, regulated healthcare context. In-office role based in the UK; 6-month contract outside IR35.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Excellent Python engineering skills and strong fundamentals.
• Experience building asynchronous systems or data-processing workflows with significant concurrent/background work.
• Strong experience shipping real products, ideally consumer-facing.
• Demonstrated zero-to-one experience building new products or major features where the answers weren't already known.
• Strong product judgment and collaboration across teams.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship high-quality consumer features end-to-end, from idea through production.
• Work primarily in Python, across the stack when needed.
• Build APIs, integrations, async data-processing pipelines and backend systems powering personalised product experiences.
• Contribute to React and React Native apps, working closely with design.
• Shape product ideas directly with the CTO and founders, making pragmatic technical decisions.
• Use AI development tools extensively while owning the quality of everything shipped.
• Maintain a strongly typed, well-tested, well-observed codebase.
• Take ownership beyond your area: infra, database queries, CI/CD, mobile when needed.

Skills

Python

Async systems

Full-stack

React

Product judgment

Cross-functional collaboration

Consumer-facing product

Tools

FastAPI

Postgres

GCP

Job description

TRAKD is seeking a Product Engineer to join an early-stage HealthTech startup and own core features end-to-end. You’ll work on Python-based backend, APIs, data pipelines, and frontend touchpoints with React, collaborating closely with the CTO and clinical teams.

This role emphasizes pragmatic product thinking, shipping real product increments, and operating across the stack in a fast-moving, regulated healthcare context. In-office role based in the UK; 6-month contract outside IR35.