Senior Software Engineer

Flok Health; Cambridgeshire and Peterborough; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Onsite gym

Digital health subscription

EMI equity

Medical + dental + optical coverage

Remote Wednesdays with 10 remote days

Desk setup allowance

Monthly team feasts

Annual training budget

High-impact role in healthcare

Job summary

Flok Health is seeking driven software engineers who care about user experience and scale consumer applications, with a frontend-focused full-stack remit and TypeScript/Python skills. You will build features, improve observability, and help shape the technical roadmap.

You'll work with product and UX, mentor others as needed, and contribute to medical-grade healthtech that touches real patients. The role offers in-person collaboration in Cambridgeshire with optional remote Wednesdays.

Qualifications

• Strong programming skills with TypeScript and Python and full stack web development.
• Collaborate with design and product teams to shape exceptional products.
• Care about users and access to high-quality clinical care.
• Take initiative, ownership, and clear communication.

Responsibilities

• Build new features (full-stack, frontend-focused) for the app.
• Design non-functional features like offline support and observability.
• Contribute to technical roadmap planning.
• Partner with product/UX to iterate on app design.
• Engage in bug triage, diagnostics and incident investigations.
• Improve test coverage across devices.
• Make data-driven decisions about app changes.

Skills

TypeScript

Python

Full-stack

Frontend

UX collaboration

Job description

We're looking for driven and pragmatic product-minded software engineers, who care about user experience and have experience of scaling consumer applications - in particular of ensuring a consistently great experience for users regardless of what device they're on.

What You'll Do

Your day-to-day work will be impactful and varied, including:

• Building new product features (full-stack, with frontend focus)
• Designing non-functional app features (e.g. offline support, improving observability)
• Contributing to technical roadmap planning
• Working with product/UX to iterate on the app design and requirements
• Participating in bug triage/diagnosis and incident investigations
• Improving test coverage of the app (especially across a variety of user devices)
• Making data driven decisions about app changes

You’ll collaborate closely with the rest of the engineering / UX team, work directly with company leadership, and see the impact of your work on real patients.

About You

• You have strong programming skills (ideally in TypeScript / Python) and experience of full stack web development
• You enjoy working with design and product teams to help shape exceptional products
• You care deeply about your users - championing great experience and access to quality clinical care
• You take initiative and ownership of your work, and communicate clearly

We're hiring for this role at a range of seniority levels. Additionally, for more experienced hires:

• You've built and scaled consumer facing production web applications
• You've maintained applications long term, and seen how early decisions play out as systems grow
• You have experience of mentoring team members, and maturing engineering processes

Bonus Points

Whilst not required, experience in any of these areas will definitely stand out - let us know if you have any!

• iOS/Android app development (native or otherwise)
• Software medical devices (or another regulated industry)
• Startup experience
• Video streaming and/or real-time technologies

What We Offer

• Challenging work at the frontier of AI-native healthcare
• In-person collaborative culture in a beautiful work space in the Cambridgeshire countryside
• An onsite gym and digital health subscription of your choice
• Early stage equity with employee-friendly terms (via an EMI scheme)
• Comprehensive medical coverage (including dental and optical) and life insurance
• Optional remote working on Wednesdays, with an annual allowance of 10 extra remote days
• Desk setup allowance for your favourite keyboard / mouse / whatever!
• Monthly team feasts (and the BBQ is used most days)
• A fast paced work environment geared towards excellence and professional growth (with annual training budget)
• A chance to have a big impact in a small team transforming care and outcomes at population scale

About Flok

More than a billion people a year suffer unnecessarily from conditions like MSK pain, where the right treatment approach is well-established but undeliverable at scale. We're changing that. Our team has deep expertise across clinical, engineering, and regulated AI, has a track record of healthtech innovation, and is backed by top VCs and multiple unicorn founder angels.

• Solving hard problems at the intersection of technology and healthcare
• The pursuit of excellence—helping each other to do the best work of our careers
• Working in an in-person collaborative environment
• Taking ownership to have significant impact in a fast-growing mission-driven company with big ambitions