Senior Full Stack Developer (Backstage)

Flatiron Health; City Of London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthtech company in the UK is seeking a Senior Full Stack Engineer to develop their Internal Developer Portal with Backstage. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of Javascript programming experience and familiarity with AWS and Terraform. Responsibilities include collaborating with engineering teams, ensuring security compliance, and improving developer tools. This role emphasizes problem-solving, teamwork, and innovation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Javascript programming.
• Experience building out an Internal Developer Portal using Backstage.
• Experience maintaining cloud-hosted AWS environments with Terraform.

Responsibilities

• Assist in gathering requirements from various engineering teams.
• Serve as a technical resource for development teams.
• Collaborate with teams to resolve system problems.
• Participate in design reviews and improve backstage templates.
• Work to integrate Paved Pathways into Backstage.
• Ensure adherence to security compliance policies.
• Maintain documentation for IDP capabilities.

Skills

Javascript programming

Building out IDP with Backstage

Cloud environments on AWS with Terraform

React or other Javascript frameworks

Setting service level objectives

Incident response participation

EKS and EKS Applications administration

Tools

Gitlab

Spacelift.io

Job description

We’re looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer - Backstage to help us accomplish our mission to improve and extend lives by learning from the experience of every person with cancer. Are you ready to be the next changemaker in cancer care?

Flatiron Health is a healthtech company using data for good to power smarter care for every person with cancer, around the world. Flatiron partners with cancer centers in the US, Europe and Asia to transform patients’ real-life experiences into real-world evidence and create a more modern, connected oncology ecosystem. Our multidisciplinary teams include oncologists, data scientists, software engineers, epidemiologists, product experts and more. Flatiron Health is an independent affiliate of the Roche Group.

What You’ll Do

In this role, you'll work with engineering teams to support the initiatives of Flatiron’s Core Tech organization. The role will be responsible for building our Internal Developer Portal leveraging Backstage with our guiding north star: Developers no longer need to write Infrastructure as Code.

• Assist in gathering requirements from Machine Learning, Data Science and Engineering teams to inform capability requirements
• Serve as a technical resource for developer teams, project managers, and analysts.
• Collaborate with development teams to highlight and resolve problems with systems
• Participate in design reviews and work with developers to improve or troubleshoot backstage templates
• Work with other Platform teams to integrate Paved Pathways into Backstage
• Work closely with security engineers to ensure security is in accordance with compliance policies set by Flatiron, HIPAA, or other authorities
• Ensure appropriate documentation is developed and maintained relative to our IDP capabilities.

The Senior Full Stack Engineer is a critical role in building Flatiron’s Internal Developer Portal where Developer Experience and Developer throughput are paramount.

Who You Are

You're a kind, passionate and collaborative problem-solver who values the opportunity to think beyond the way things are. In addition:

• You have 5+ years of Javascript programming experience
• You have experience building out an IDP by leveraging Backstage
• You have experience provisioning and maintaining cloud-hosted environments in Amazon Web Services with Terraform
• You have experience programming React (or other Javascript frameworks)
• You have experience setting and maintaining service level objectives and service level indicators around enterprise platforms
• You have experience participating in incident response and engineering on-call rotations
• You have experience administrating EKS and EKS Applications

Optional

• Experience with Gitlab as a CI/CD platform
• Experience with Spacelift.io

Who We Are

Our people are at the centre of everything we do. We strive to foster a culture where our teammates feel equipped and empowered to make meaningful contributions with confidence, compassion, and clarity.