Staff Product Engineer - 3 / 4 / 5 day Work Week!

Albany Growth; Greater London; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working week

Impactful healthcare platform

Job summary

Albany Growth is partnering with a fast-scaling HealthTech company delivering software used by NHS clinicians to improve efficiency and patient care. They offer flexible 5/4/3 day options with pro rata salaries and are hiring a Staff Product Engineer to join a hands-on engineering team.

You will own core product areas end-to-end, write production code daily, and collaborate with Product to shape clinical workflows used by frontline staff.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in full stack development delivering complex enterprise applications.
• Strong experience in PHP or Java, Python, or C# (cross-training into the PHP stack supported).
• Comfortable owning problems end-to-end with minimal direction.
• Solid understanding of databases and performance trade-offs at scale.
• Experience in regulated or operationally complex environments is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own and develop core product areas end-to-end.
• Write production code daily in a complex, regulated environment.
• Work closely with Product to shape clinical workflows used by clinicians.
• Solve challenging problems around security, performance and scalability.
• Apply patterns like CQRS and DDD across a modern, well maintained codebase.
• Keep the codebase clean—no legacy debt tolerated here.

Skills

Full stack development

PHP

Java

Python

C#

Tools

CQRS

DDD

Job description

Albany Growth are partnered with a fast scaling HealthTech company building software used daily by frontline NHS staff - helping GPs, nurses, doctors and other specialists do their jobs easier and faster, ultimately benefitting the wider public and reducing wait times. This business offers genuine flexibility if you want to work 5, 4 or 3 days a week (they already have people doing this and it works).

Their platform is already live across multiple NHS customers, with strong demand and a growing pipeline - they're now hiring a Staff Product Engineer as a key addition to their engineering team.

What you'll be doing:

• Owning and developing core product areas end-to-end
• Writing production code daily in a complex, regulated environment
• Working closely with Product to shape clinical workflows that real clinicians use
• Solving challenging problems around security, performance and scalability
• Applying patterns like CQRS and DDD across a modern, well maintained codebase
• Keeping the codebase clean - no legacy debt tolerated here
• 7+ years in full stack development delivering complex enterprise applications
• Strong experience in PHP or even Java, Python, or C# (cross-training into the PHP stack supported)
• Comfortable owning problems E2E with minimal direction
• Solid understanding of databases and performance trade-offs at scale
• Experience in regulated or operationally complex environments is a plus
• Engineers who care about outcomes, not just closing tickets

5 / 4 / 3 day working week (pro rata salary for those looking at the 3 or 4 day option)

High growth business backed by Europe's largest healthcare platform

Real world impact on patient care and clinical efficiency

This is a great fit for engineers who want to stay deeply hands-on, work on problems that matter and operate with genuine ownership in a fast-moving environment.