Senior Backend Engineer for AI Health Platforms

Machine Medicine; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation and benefits

Impactful digital health projects

Job summary

Machine Medicine is seeking a highly capable Backend Developer to design, build and maintain cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines. You will ensure reliability, security and scalability for AI-driven clinical research and digital health tools.

We require 5+ years of production software experience with TypeScript/NestJS, PostgreSQL expertise, and strong SaaS/backend capabilities. Experience with AWS/GCP, Terraform and CI/CD pipelines is needed to thrive in this role.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of commercial software development experience.
• Production experience with Typescript and NestJS or similar backend frameworks.
• Strong PostgreSQL experience and data modeling skills.
• Experience designing REST APIs for SaaS platforms.
• Hands-on with GitHub CI/CD and deployment workflows.
• Working knowledge of AWS and/or GCP; Terraform or similar IaC tooling.
• Prior involvement in security, privacy, and data protection practices.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain and scale backend services using TypeScript, NestJS and TypeORM.
• Develop REST APIs and service-based backend components.
• Design PostgreSQL schemas, migrations, and optimize queries.
• Support production systems with monitoring, incident response and RCA.
• Maintain CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows (GitHub-driven).
• Work with AWS and/or GCP; manage infrastructure with Terraform.
• Implement secure coding practices and access control (Keycloak optional).

Skills

5+ years experience

TypeScript

NestJS

TypeORM

PostgreSQL

REST APIs

CI/CD (GitHub)

AWS/GCP

Terraform

Security best practices

Tools

GitHub

CI/CD pipelines

Terraform

Keycloak (bonus)

Job description

Machine Medicine is seeking a highly capable Backend Developer to design, build and maintain cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines. You will ensure reliability, security and scalability for AI-driven clinical research and digital health tools.

We require 5+ years of production software experience with TypeScript/NestJS, PostgreSQL expertise, and strong SaaS/backend capabilities. Experience with AWS/GCP, Terraform and CI/CD pipelines is needed to thrive in this role.