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Are you a software engineer who enjoys taking ownership, solving complex problems and turning ideas into secure, reliable products? This is an exciting opportunity to lead the technical development of a digitally enabled rehabilitation platform for use within NHS clinical pathways.\n\nThe University of Leeds is offering a unique opportunity to accelerate your career in industry by delivering a strategically important project through a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP). You will work in collaboration with Itecho Health Limited and the School of Medicine at the University of Leeds, one of the UK’s leading research intensive institutions.\n\nItecho Health Limited, based in Leeds, is a digital health company led by clinicians and technology experts. Itecho develops digital platforms that help digitise clinical pathways, support remote patient monitoring and improve the management of long term conditions.\n\nIts products include Ascelus®, a patient and clinician platform that can integrate with existing hospital systems, and aQ™, a medical grade research platform used to collect high quality patient and research data.\n\nItecho is committed to developing inclusive digital health solutions that can be used by patients regardless of their background, economic circumstances or level of digital confidence.\n\nAs the KTP Associate, you will be Itecho’s primary in house software engineer for this project. You will take technical ownership of the platform, working independently while collaborating closely with Itecho’s clinical and product team, University academics, NHS stakeholders and specialist third party technology partners.\n\nThis is a highly practical role. 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You will also have access to the University of Leeds’ facilities, academic expertise and technical support throughout the project.\n\nWhat are the benefits of being a KTP Associate?\n\nAll KTP Associates spend 10% of their time on Personal Development, making full use of a £5,333 PD budget\n\nExperience working at the forefront of AI application in a safety-critical engineering environment\n\nHands-on exposure to the full lifecycle of an AI product\n\nOpportunity to contribute to academic dissemination\n\nAccess to two residential training sessions aimed at developing project management skills\n\nOpportunity to gain both management and academic experience\n\nPotential to fast-track a career in industry\n\nAccess to a wealth of academic resources\n\nAccess to a Travel & Subsistence and Consumables budget\n\nAccess to mentoring sessions through Innovate UK\n\nTo explore the post further, or for any queries you may have, please contact:\n\nAcadmic supervisors:\n\nProf Manoj Sivan\nLeeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine\nEmail:  \n\nDr Adam Smith\nLeeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine\nEmail: \n\nCompany supervisors:\n\nSarah Tulip\nEmail:  \n\nKatie Wallett\nInnovation Support Co-ordinator (University of Leeds)\nEmail: \n\nFurther details: Candidate brief\n£45,000 to £50,000 per annum in addition to salary, a Personal Development budget of £5,333 (Off grading structure)","description_format":"text","description_chars":3713,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Higher Education"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-24T11:42:00Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":85,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.854,"p_room":1,"age_days":4,"expected_fill_days":24,"reasons":["seen:4","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-27T05:46:45Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":66880,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/leeds-lead-full-stack-software-engineer-digital-health-ktp-associate","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/leeds-lead-full-stack-software-engineer-digital-health-ktp-associate.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-27T11:25:55Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":13550,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-28T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":12810},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=12810"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fleeds-lead-full-stack-software-engineer-digital-health-ktp-associate"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fleeds-lead-full-stack-software-engineer-digital-health-ktp-associate"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fleeds-lead-full-stack-software-engineer-digital-health-ktp-associate"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/leeds-lead-full-stack-software-engineer-digital-health-ktp-associate\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fleeds-lead-full-stack-software-engineer-digital-health-ktp-associate"}]}