Tech Lead

Joy; Greater London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A start-up improving lives through technology is seeking a Software Engineer in Greater London. In this role, you will be the first internal hire, responsible for developing new features and maintaining existing applications. Applicants should have over 3 years of experience in Ruby on Rails, and ideally have a background in product ownership. This is a unique opportunity to join a mission-driven team at an early stage and contribute to impactful projects.

Qualifications

• Has built a live app in production in RoR.
• Experience owning a product.
• 3+ years experience in RoR.

Responsibilities

• You'll be a crucial part of our growing team as the first internal software engineer.
• Work to implement the roadmap by building new features and maintaining the existing product.
• Integrate the product with NHS IT systems.

Skills

Ruby on Rails

AWS

MySQL

React

jQuery

Job description

Overview

Salary: £50,000 - 65,000 per year

Requirements

• Has built a live app in production in RoR
• Experience owning a product
• 3+ years experience in RoR

Responsibilities

• You'll be a crucial part of our growing team and the first internal software engineer. You'll be working to implement our roadmap by building new features as well as maintaining the existing product.

Technologies

• AWS
• MySQL
• React
• Ruby
• jQuery

More

This is an incredibly exciting opportunity to join a young company with great internal growth possibilities. You’ll be the 4th employee of a funded start-up on a mission to improve the lives of millions of vulnerable people.

About us

The problem we're solving: 1 in 5 GP appointments are for non-medical needs such as loneliness, debt, unemployment.

The NHS is investing £BNs into "social prescribing" to connect patients to local services e.g. Age UK, but lack the systems to deliver this successfully.

We’re a fast-growing start up, backed by investors, on a mission to add ten years to life expectancy through social prescribing. We provide software to the NHS to make it as easy to refer a patient to community-group as it is to prescribe an anti-depressant.

Stage

We are 2 years old, our products are built and we have paying customers.

So far we have worked with an offshore agency to build our product and we’re recruiting our first permanent tech hire to drive us forward.

As we kick on we need to integrate our product with the NHS IT systems which will be a key piece of work as well as execute our product roadmap.

You'll be joining a team of very friendly and super-smart people who are dedicated to seeing the mission of Joy realised!

last updated 49 week of 2025