Senior Backend Engineer: Clinical Automation (London) Equity

Asterix; Greater London; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private health + dental by Bupa

Equipment covered

Generous equity

Job summary

Asterix exists to fix healthcare inefficiencies. A Senior Backend Engineer, Clinical Automation will own end-to-end automation for GP systems and the DoctorOS platform in London.

You will design and operate bots that interact with EMIS Web, SystmOne and Docman, building robust data pipelines and reliable services on AWS and PostgreSQL. Lead the migration between low-code RPA and code-first automation, shape integrations, and ensure the automations remain auditable and safe in production.

Qualifications

• Experience building and maintaining automation estates for clinical systems.
• Ability to choose between low-code RPA and code-first automation; lead migration.
• Experience with data pipelines, queues, webhooks, and cloud services.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve automation estate that operates EMIS Web, SystmOne and Docman; report extraction and data handling.
• Make bots robust: deterministic, observable and recoverable when UI changes.
• Decide tool mix (UiPath vs code-first) and lead migration pragmatically.
• Design for automation realities: retries, partial failures, and safe backlogs.

Skills

RPA

Python

TypeScript

Playwright

AWS

n8n

Tools

UiPath

AWS Lambda

SQS

S3

EventBridge

PostgreSQL

Supabase

FHIR

EMIS Web

SystmOne

Docman

Job description

Asterix exists to fix healthcare inefficiencies. A Senior Backend Engineer, Clinical Automation will own end-to-end automation for GP systems and the DoctorOS platform in London.

You will design and operate bots that interact with EMIS Web, SystmOne and Docman, building robust data pipelines and reliable services on AWS and PostgreSQL. Lead the migration between low-code RPA and code-first automation, shape integrations, and ensure the automations remain auditable and safe in production.