Software Engineer (Backend) - London

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

Benefits offered by this job

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Small team with direct impact

Copenhagen office (collaboration focus

Job summary

Teton is seeking a strong backend engineer to scale the core infrastructure powering its platform. You will work with real-time data from thousands of edge devices across care facilities, building APIs and backend services that power critical alerts and workflows for healthcare staff.

Ideal candidates will have experience with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and cloud deployment. This role offers a stake in a meritocratic, fast-paced team with tangible healthcare impact.

Qualifications

• Experience building and operating large-scale backend or distributed systems.
• Designing reliable real-time data pipelines.
• Working with event-driven architectures and asynchronous systems.
• Scaling APIs and services handling high-throughput workloads.
• Operating production infrastructure with strong reliability requirements.
• Database design and performance optimization.
• Cloud infrastructure and deployment tooling.
• Debugging complex production issues under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Scale the core infrastructure powering Teton’s platform.
• Ingest and process real-time data from thousands of edge devices.
• Develop APIs and backend services to support care teams.
• Manage databases and storage systems for high availability.
• Maintain MQTT infrastructure and edge communication.
• Improve reliability, observability, and system performance.
• Oversee cloud deployment architecture and tooling.

Skills

Backend systems

Real-time data pipelines

Event-driven architecture

APIs and services

Reliability and observability

Database design

Cloud infrastructure

Debugging production issues

Job description

About Us

Teton is redefining the role of healthcare workers through cutting-edge AI technology and a great product experience. As populations gets older and a shortage in staff, healthcare system is under pressure. Our missions is to decrease the cost of healthcare while improving the quality of care.

Our product enables careteams to intervene, prevent and operator more efficiently. Our ambient sensors in resident rooms captures activity, sleep, respiration, gait and more. These signal used for both react fast to risk events, like falls, and long term health analysis, for care teams to take actions.

Teton is scaling fast, operating in Nordics, UK, DACH and US. Recently raised 20M $$ series A. Expect travel to the US, to meet users and team members.

We focus relentless on product excellence and user experience, deploying solutions at speed that make a tangible difference for cares. We are an aspiring meritocracy biased towards action, striving to always raise the bar. If you are driven by impact, speed and leveling up, this might be the place for you.

If you are looking for a 9-17 job, perform best with structure and struggle dealing with unknowns, this is not for you. We believe close collaboration between a hard working, high agency team enables the fastest and most efficient iteration cycles, helping us build an impactful product that healthcare professionals truly love to use.

The Job

We are looking for a strong backend engineer to help scale the core infrastructure powering Teton’s platform.

Our systems ingest and process continuous streams of real-time data from thousands of deployed edge devices across care facilities. These systems power critical alerts and operational workflows used by healthcare staff around the clock.

You will work across:

• Distributed data ingestion systems

• Real-time event pipelines

• APIs and backend services

• Databases and storage systems

• MQTT infrastructure and edge communication

• Reliability, observability, and system performance

• Cloud infrastructure and deployment architecture

Qualifications:

We care more about engineering ability and ownership than specific credentials, but strong candidates will likely have experience with several of the following:

• Building and operating large-scale backend or distributed systems

• Designing reliable real-time data pipelines

• Working with event-driven architectures and asynchronous systems

• Scaling APIs and services handling high-throughput workloads

• Operating production infrastructure with strong reliability requirements

• Database design and performance optimization

• Cloud infrastructure and deployment tooling

• Debugging complex production issues under pressure

What We Offer

• Participation in our warrant program (stock options).

• A small team where your decisions directly shape the product.

• A Copenhagen-based office with close collaboration, no async-only culture.

• Work on software that healthcare workers depend on every day, the impact is tangible and immediate.

Join Our Team

We're looking for individuals who share our vision and value ownership and entrepreneurship over a conventional job.

At Teton, you'll have the chance to make a real impact with your work.

If you're ready for more than just a job, come aboard and be part of our mission to transform healthcare.