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Founding Product Engineer - Backend Leaning

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Updated 4 weeks ago

Description

LET'S MAKE THE NHS THE MOST ADVANCED HEALTHCARE SYSTEM IN THE WORLD

The world’s best healthcare, for free. It's not a new idea, it's called the NHS. But the largest healthcare provider is fundamentally broken. So we’re on a mission to fix it with technology that actually works.

We love the NHS because it’s accessible to all, free at the point of delivery and employs millions up and down the UK. But we've all read the headlines. It's under intense pressure with rising costs, GP strikes, budget uncertainty and an ageing population. Which means longer wait times, fewer appointments and lower quality care for the people who need of it most. The NHS is beautiful, but broken.

The largest cost (£66bn+) is staff, who spend a ridiculous amount of time on mundane admin. 35% of NHS staff are employed to complete administrative work all day, every day. And that's where we're making a difference.

We're focused on relentlessly automating repetitive processes within the NHS. And we’ve had great early success. Our first product, Automated Registrations, is already used by 24% of GP practices in England. With this wedge in the market, we're now building more powerful tech that unlocks access to healthcare for the entire nation.

OUR PRINCIPLES
  • Care deeply
  • Work hard
  • Be your word
  • Trust in radical truth and transparency
  • Do your life's best work
  • Find the fun

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR
This is for a product-minded full stack founding engineer who wants to move with extreme urgency and have complete autonomy. You'll help build and scale our product, working across teams and directly with our customers.

Requirements
  • You are operating at a senior or lead level and have 5+ years of experience, with expertise in React and TypeScript
  • You’ve experienced a startup or scale up especially at an early stage. You’ve been part of a small squad of high performing engineers and you weren’t just “one of many”
  • You may have a founders/entrepreneurial mindset or have been a technical founder yourself and get the early stage growth journey
  • You pride yourself on producing high quality code which scales effectively into different environments
  • You feel accountable for the end-to-end solution and can build our product which can handle various NHS "oddities"
  • You understand and mitigate the risks of distributed systems, ensuring code that is failsafe even in the cases where things go wrong
  • You thrive with autonomy, responsibility, and building things that truly matter.

Tech environment
  • Fullstack (Backend leaning): TypeScript or similar
  • APIs: Designing and consuming scalable, well-structured services
  • Data: Working with production systems and performance considerations
  • Experience in scaling product environments or high-stakes domains (health, finance, infra) is a strong advantage.

What success looks like
  • You ship intuitive, high-quality user experiences that clinicians and patients rely on daily
  • You influence product direction, not just implementation
  • You identify and solve performance and usability challenges before they become problems
  • You become a trusted voice across engineering, product, and design
  • The team delivers faster and better because of you!

A BIT ABOUT US
Office: Our office is within a GP practice. This is our unfair advantage. Got a question? Pop down the corridor. Want to learn how your work affects real patients? Pop downstairs to reception.

Working Pattern: 3-5 days in the office, depending on your team and the company schedule. We highly prioritise in-person communication and prefer candidates who want to work 4+ days a week in the office. Our anchor days are Mon, Tues and Fri. Homemade breakfast and lunch are on the house every day when you're in the office, ensuring you're fuelled for success!

Growth Cycles: We work in growth cycles. Every 8 weeks we do the same set of activities. 1 week outside of Business-as-Usual to research, strategise, plan our work. 7 weeks to knuckle down and deliver it.

OPPORTUNITY FOR REAL UPSIDE
  • Paid volunteer days. We offer an additional 2 paid days off per year.
  • Every 8 weeks we take a day off to socialise as a team.
  • Learning budget of £250 annually and time off to spend it.
  • Homemade breakfast and lunch are on the house when you're in the office.
  • Health and fitness budget of £60 per month.
  • An additional 7 days of paid leave is available if you want to take time to learn how to meditate.
  • Tooling; You’ll have your choice of operating systems and any additional tools you need.
  • Generous sick leave policy with additional days for mental health leave.
  • Once a year we’ll holiday together!
  • Parental leave: Up to 18 weeks 100% pay depending on tenure, plus childcare contributions.
  • Fertility leave: Extra 5 days off per year for fertility treatment.
  • Local living benefit: Up to £5,000 to support living closer to the office.

We care about building a product that is loved and a culture that is rich in perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds. We are purposeful about this and are proactively building a company that is inclusive of all people; from race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, neurodiversity, disability, colour, and national origin.
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Automating admin tasks for NHS GP practices to free staff time for patient care

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Build technology that saves thousands of hours of NHS staff time every week. Ship automations used by 1 in 6 GP practices. Work with engineers, doctors, and accountants solving real problems for people who keep the health system running