Staff Software Engineer

Flok Health, Inc.; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Onsite gym

Medical coverage (including dental and

Optical

Job summary

Flok Health is seeking driven software engineers to build user-centric, scalable consumer applications in a healthcare context. The role focuses on full-stack development with a frontend emphasis, delivering features across devices and ensuring strong user experience.

You’ll collaborate with design, product, and leadership to shape the app and drive meaningful improvements for patients and care teams.

Qualifications

• You have strong programming skills and full-stack web development experience.
• You enjoy working with design and product teams to shape exceptional products.
• You care deeply about users and delivering quality clinical care.
• You take initiative and communicate clearly.

Responsibilities

• Building new product features (full-stack, with frontend focus).
• Designing non-functional app features (offline support, 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 across a variety of devices.
• Making data driven decisions about app changes.
• Collaborate with engineering/UX and leadership to impact patient care.

Skills

TypeScript

Python

Full-stack development

Frontend focus

User-centered design

Collaborating with design/product

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