Senior Full Stack Engineer - Backstage

Flatiron Health; City Of London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthtech company in London is seeking a Senior Full Stack Engineer to develop their Internal Developer Portal using Backstage. This role emphasizes collaboration across teams to enhance developer experience & throughput. Candidates should have over 5 years of Javascript experience and expertise in AWS, Terraform, and React programming. The position offers a chance to make impactful contributions in the cancer care ecosystem.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Gather requirements from teams for capability requirements.
• Serve as a technical resource for developer teams.
• Collaborate with teams to resolve system problems.
• Participate in design reviews for backstage templates.

Skills

Javascript programming

Building out an Internal Developer Portal

Cloud-hosted environments in AWS with Terraform

React programming

Service level objectives and indicators

Incident response participation

Administrating EKS

Tools

Gitlab

Spacelift.io

Job description

Overview

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.

Responsibilities

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.

Qualifications

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.