Software Engineer

Position: Permanent

Location: Fully remote (UK-based)

Salary: £60,000 - £70,000 per year 

Reports to: Lead Software Engineer

United by our vision. Leading with empathy. Pioneers in curiosity.

Healios exists to bring exceptional healthcare to anyone, anytime, anywhere. By digitising entire clinical pathways, we enable children, adults and their family members to receive and seamlessly transition between clinical services from the comfort of their home.

Innovation is at the heart of what we do as we strive to be the leading provider of neurodevelopmental and associated mental health services. We are a remote-first organisation that embraces diversity in all its forms and offers flexibility for our people.

"Great minds don't think alike"

From our talented tech teams to our standout clinical expertise, we bring great minds together to build more accessible services. Our software supports clinicians, young people and families through some of the most important moments of their lives, so it needs to be reliable, secure and built with care.

Our values

Our values shape how we build, collaborate and care for everyone we support. We look for people whose own values align with them:

• Do the right thing
• Act with integrity
• Be a great listener
• Deliver your best work
• Be truly courageous

About the role

As a Software Engineer at Healios, you'll build meaningful, well-crafted software that improves access to mental health and neurodevelopmental care. We work in a focused, remote environment that values small, collaborative teams, clear ownership and the space to do your best work without unnecessary meetings or noise.

Your work will contribute to one of our three strategic areas: improving the experience of the clinicians who use our platform, making client operations sustainable as we grow, or giving our partners the confidence to expand their work with us.

You're a full-stack generalist who is growing into ownership. You like to take features end-to-end, you're comfortable with ambiguity and finding your own answers, and you keep your team informed without being chased. You would rather ship something useful and improve it than wait for the perfect approach. You'll work closely with engineers, analysts and stakeholders embedded within your team, colleagues from clinical, operations and commercial, to understand problems first-hand and shape, build and ship features that are simple, scalable and useful.

We're AI-first in how we work. You'll use AI throughout your work, from exploring problems and prototyping to building, testing and review, with the care that building for healthcare demands.

What you'll do

• Deliver features end-to-end, with clarity and appropriate test coverage
• Take responsibility for small features or technical slices, managing your time and raising ambiguity early
• Write maintainable, well-documented code, and refactor with care
• Contribute to shaping work, offering input on feasibility, scope and approach before a line is written
• Work AI-first, using AI to prototype, build, test and explore, and sharing what works with your team
• Collaborate across disciplines, anticipating how your work connects to the wider system
• Share knowledge through reviews, pairing and writing, helping the people around you grow
• Support security, reliability and clinical-safety good practice, working with InfoSec and the Clinical Safety Officer where needed

Specialisms

Some engineers hold a specialism based on team needs, usually around 20% of their time. It is a chance to grow domain knowledge and take on a key responsibility. Options include infrastructure (shared tooling, environments and deployment), data insights, front-end and the design system, or engineering response.

Our stack

We build primarily in Ruby on Rails, but we hire for the engineer rather than the framework. Strong full-stack fundamentals matter more to us than years on any one tool.

• The app: Ruby on Rails modular monolith, ViewComponents, Turbo
• Testing: RSpec
• Database: PostgreSQL
• Hosting and infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes, Docker
• Background jobs: Sidekiq
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions
• Monitoring: Grafana, Sentry

Need to have

• Around 3+ years, or equivalent demonstrable experience, building and maintaining web applications with Ruby on Rails or a similar full-stack framework
• Confidence taking features end-to-end, from shaping through to production and beyond
• An AI-first way of working: you already use AI tools day to day to build, test and explore, and you use them to produce better work, not only faster work
• Comfort with ambiguity, and a habit of seeking out your own answers while holding opinions loosely
• Strong, thoughtful written communication and a preference for working asynchronously in a remote team
• A solid grasp of testing, modular and maintainable design, and basic web security
• A product mindset and a preference for simple, durable solutions over short-term cleverness
• A commitment to safeguarding and high ethical standards

Desirable

• Experience with our stack, especially Ruby on Rails, Hotwire, Turbo and ViewComponents
• DevOps-adjacent experience across AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD (GitHub Actions) and observability (Grafana, Sentry)
• Interest in holding a specialism (infrastructure, data insights, front-end and design system, or engineering response)
• Experience in healthcare, mental health or other regulated environments, though this is not required

If you don't meet every point above, please apply anyway. We are more interested in how you think and learn than in a perfect checklist, and we would be glad to consider your application.

What's in it for you

• 33 days holiday (including Bank Holidays)
• Paid Christmas closure (between Christmas and New Year)
• Birthday Leave - paid day off on your birthday
• "Life Leave" - 2 days of extra leave to take when things you can't plan for happen
• Enhanced family friendly policies including a phased return to work on full pay
• Paid company sick pay scheme
• Contributory Pension Scheme (6% matched)
• Employee Discount to access a private assessment (for ADHD, Autism or a combined assessment) through our service for your child
• Fully personalised flexible benefits package including Health Cash Plan, Life Assurance, EAP Service, Will Writing, Critical Illness Cover, employee discount and savings portal, Cycle to Work Scheme, Tech Scheme and Wine Club!
• Work from anywhere for up to 6 months per year policy
• Free access to co-working spaces
• CPD/Growth day per year, plus personal development allowance to invest in your growth
• Bespoke Healios Training and on demand learning

A note on your application

We use AI at Healios and we're glad you might too. But please apply as you: we read every application, and a personal one, written in your own words and about your own experience, will stand out more than something clearly generated against this advert. Tell us who you are and why Healios, because that is what we are looking for.

How to apply

Apply through the link on this page with your CV and a short note about why this role and Healios appeal to you. A formal cover letter is not needed.

What to expect: an initial conversation with someone from the team, a practical stage that reflects the kind of work you would actually do rather than abstract puzzles, and a final conversation with the people you would be working alongside. We aim to complete this in around 2 weeks, and we will let you know where you stand at each step. A real person reads every application.

Accommodations

If you need any adjustments to take part fully, let us know. We are glad to make them for the application, interviews and onboarding, and we are always learning about different accessibility needs so we can adapt. Healios is a Disability Confident Committed Employer, committed to inclusivity and equality for people with different needs in the workplace.

DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION

“Do the right thing” is one of our core Healios values. And building a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels supported is absolutely the right thing to do. Whether we’re developing a new service line or enhancing one of our products, we need people with different skills, backgrounds, identities and perspectives to ensure our innovations will work for the children and young people we are here to serve. By embracing diversity, we can deliver better care experiences and outcomes, while tackling the inequalities in healthcare provision that exist today.

SAFER RECRUITMENT & PRE- EMPLOYMENT CHECKS 

Healios ensures that supporting people to be safe is at the heart of our work and a key priority across all areas of the organisation, We will do our absolute best to keep the people that we support, safe from harm. This starts with our recruitment processes.

As part of our pre-employment checks, all employees of Healios will be asked to have a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. Dependent on your role within the business, this will either be an Enhanced or Basic. A Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) check will be required. You will also be asked to provide two professional references as a minimum.