Software Engineer (Full-Stack PythonTypeScript)

Our Future Health; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A health research organization in Greater London is seeking a Full-Stack focused Software Engineer to enhance participant engagement on their platform. This role involves hands-on delivery and collaboration within a small team, utilizing technologies like Python and TypeScript in a hybrid working environment. Candidates should have experience with consumer-facing products and strong cloud application skills, offering a salary from £60,000 along with various benefits including generous holidays and a pension scheme.

Benefits

Generous Pension Scheme

30 Days Holiday

Enhanced Parental Leave

Cycle to Work Scheme

Home & Tech Savings

EV Scheme

Employee Referral Bonus

Wellbeing Support

Flexible working arrangements

Qualifications

• Experience building cloud-hosted consumer applications using open source technologies such as Python or Node.
• Knowledge of modern frontend development including JavaScript/TypeScript with frameworks like React.
• Experience working on consumer-facing products where experimentation and rapid iteration are important.

Responsibilities

• Work in a small growing team contributing to early design and delivery.
• Help shape and build experiences that deepen participant understanding and motivation.
• Design and implement systems that encourage people to return and participate in studies.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

PostgreSQL

AWS

Docker

REST

JavaScript

Git

Tools

Terraform

Django

Jenkins

Job description

Our Future Healthis an ambitious collaboration between the public charity and private sectors designed tohelp people live healthier lives for longer through better prevention earlierdetectionand improved treatment of diseases. We will speed up the discovery of new methods of early disease detection and the evaluation of new diagnostic tools to helpidentifyand treat diseases earlywhen outcomes are usually better. With over 2.5M volunteers across the UKwerenow the worlds biggest health researchprogrammeof its kind and our volunteer group is also more diverse than other similar health researchprogrammes.

Technology and data are central to our systems power web sites clinics across the UKsecureanalyticsand researchsystemspipelines thatprocesshighly sensitivehealthand geneticdata and we are continuing to grow our engineering capability to support this ambition.

We arelooking for a Full-Stack focused Software Engineer to join our cross-functional Participant Engagementsquad. Youll be helping participants stay connected to Our Future Health giving them clear meaningful reasons to return to the platform understand the impact of their involvement and feel confident taking part in future research.

Our tech-stack includes Python TypeScript PostgreSQL Terraform (IaC) running in Azure (Kubernetes and Azure AppService). Our engineers are full-stack handling frontend backend and infrastructure in a total ownership model - squads build and run it.

Experimentation will be a key part of the role sowerelooking for someone who brings initiative is comfortable exploring ideas and can help usvalidatewhat resonates before we invest in longer-term solutions.

The role combines practical engineering with opportunities to influence how engagement evolves helping us deliver quick wins today while laying the groundwork for long-term impact on participant trust confidence and research readiness.

In this role you will:

• Work in a small growing team whereyoullcontribute both to early design and hands‑on delivery
• Help shape and build the experiences that deepen participant understanding and motivation making thoughtful decisions about what to develop when to reuse and how tooptimisethe journeys people already see
• Design and implement systems that encourage people to return explore insights shareadditionaldata and take part in studies
• As thework is still in itsearlystagesyoulloften move across the stack from front‑end features built with TypeScript and modern frameworks to backend and data-driven work in Python depending on what the problem calls for
• Learn from realbehaviourand iterate quickly based on what works

This role will be fully hybrid with the expectation we get together in our Holborn London office at least once per month.

Requirements

We welcome applications from all who may not feel they match the full criteria so if you have most of the belowwedlike to hear from you:

Technical Skills

• Experience building cloud-hosted consumer applications usingopen sourcetechnologies such as Pythonor Node
• Knowledge of modern frontend development including JavaScript/TypeScript with frameworks like React or and experience building intuitive user-focused interfaces
• Experience working on backend systems ideally using Python for data movement processing and storage
• Experience working on consumer-facing products where experimentation rapid iteration and learning from userbehaviourare important
• Prior experience with Azure (ideally)AWSor GCP
• Knowledge of how to work with Infrastructure as Code ideally Terraform
• Knowledge of good data modelling and design patterns; knowledge of relational databases () and familiarity with other types of data store (blob document graph)
• Good experiencewith modern agile development practices like code review TDD CI/CD and pairing using tools like Git and GitHub
• Experience of operationally managing software components oncelive including observability logging metrics error reporting debugging and live incident management
• Experience ofworking with sensitive personal data

Competencies

• Experience working in cross-functional teams consisting productUXand non-technical stakeholders
• Ability to communicate with stakeholders and audiences outside your own team
• Experience working in small growingorganisationswith a high degree of ambiguity where flexibility is valued
• Understanding of software quality principles and practices
• Comfortable sharing knowledge and helping others
• Comfortable taking part intechnical discussions

Benefits

• Competitive base salary from 60000
• Generous Pension Scheme We invest in your future with employer contributions of up to 12%
• 30 Days Holiday pro rata Bank Holidays Enjoy a generous holiday allowance with the flexibility to take bank holidays when it suits you
• Enhanced Parental Leave Supporting you during lifes biggest moments
• Cycle to Work Scheme Save 25-39% on a new bike and accessories through salary sacrifice
• Home & Tech Savings Get up to 8% off on IKEA and Currys products spreading the cost over 12 months through salary sacrifice
• EV Scheme Save up to 40% on a brand new electric vehicle all-inclusive package through salary sacrifice
• 1000 Employee Referral Bonus Know someone amazing Get rewarded for bringing them on board!
• Wellbeing Support Access to Mental Health First Aiders plus 24/7 online GP services and an Employee AssistanceProgrammefor you and your family
• A Great Place to Work We have a lovely Central London office in Holborn and offer flexible and remote working arrangements

Join us -letsprevent disease together.

We recommend you apply as soon as possible as occasionally due to high volumes ofapplicationswe need to close our postings early.

At Our Future Health werecognisethe importance of having a diverse workforce and ensuring that all candidates regardless of their background haveequitableaccess to our application process. We proactively encourage applicants who identify as havinga disability neurodiversity or long-term health conditions to let us know if they requireany reasonable adjustments as part of their application process.

If you dorequireany reasonable adjustments please email us at

Required Experience:

IC

Key Skills
APIs,Docker,Jenkins,REST,Python,AWS,NoSQL,MySQL,JavaScript,Postgresql,Django,GIT

Employment Type : Full Time

Experience: years

Vacancy: 1