Senior Software Engineer, Health Data Platform – Remote

Our Future Health; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health charity in London is looking for a Senior Engineer to join their Recontact team. This role involves developing backend services, ensuring data security, and working with diverse teams to enhance health research systems. The ideal candidate will have extensive knowledge in building cloud-hosted services, familiarity with relevant technologies, and a passion for improving public health outcomes through innovative solutions. This position offers a competitive salary starting from £85,000 and great benefits including flexible working options.

Benefits

Generous Pension Scheme

30 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays

Enhanced Parental Leave

Career Growth & Development funding

Cycle to Work Scheme

Home & Tech Savings

Employee Referral Bonus

Wellbeing Support

Flexible working arrangements

Qualifications

• Knowledge of building cloud-hosted backend services with Python.
• Experience in using agile development practices.
• Familiarity with security and compliance standards.

Responsibilities

• Develop cohort selection capabilities for the Recontact system.
• Create participant-facing flows for consent and engagement.
• Design secure systems managing sensitive health data.

Skills

Building cloud-hosted backend services using open source technologies

Building backend systems for data movement and storage

Experience with Azure, AWS, or GCP

Infrastructure as Code knowledge

Data modelling and design patterns

Agile development practices

Managing software components in production

Working with sensitive personal data

Cross-functional team collaboration

Mentorship and technical guidance

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

PostgreSQL

Git

GitHub

Job description

A leading health charity in London is looking for a Senior Engineer to join their Recontact team. This role involves developing backend services, ensuring data security, and working with diverse teams to enhance health research systems. The ideal candidate will have extensive knowledge in building cloud-hosted services, familiarity with relevant technologies, and a passion for improving public health outcomes through innovative solutions. This position offers a competitive salary starting from £85,000 and great benefits including flexible working options.