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We will speed up the discovery of new methods of early disease detection, and the evaluation of new diagnostic tools, to help identify and treat diseases early, when outcomes are usually better. With over 2.5M volunteers across the UK, we’re now the world’s biggest health research programme of its kind, and our volunteer group is also more diverse than other, similar health research programmes.\nTechnology and data are central to our mission. Our systems power web sites, clinics across the UK, secure analytics and research systems, pipelines that process highly sensitive health and genetic data, and we are continuing to grow our engineering capability to support this ambition.\nWe are hiring a full-stack focused mid-level Software Engineer to join our Research Enablement squad where you'd work alongside a Staff Software Engineer and a Security Engineer, as well as other cross functional colleagues.\nThis squad sits on the intersection of the Trusted Research Environment (TRE) and our bespoke security tooling and assets. Our squad vision is to create a secure, trusted and state of the art research environment to empower Researchers with their health research. We work closely with some of our internal operational teams as well as external partners, and are solving lots of rare but exciting problems.\nOur engineers are full-stack, handling frontend, backend and infrastructure in a total ownership model - squads build and run it.\nOur core tech-stack includes Typescript, Node.JS, WebAssembly, PostgresSQL, Terraform (IaC), running in Azure / Kubernetes.\nIf you are passionate about your work, develop consistently high-quality code, and are adept at identifying, preventing, and troubleshooting problems we would love to hear from you.\nThis role will be fully hybrid with the expectation we get together in our Holborn, London office at least once per month.\nRequirements\nWe welcome applications from all who may not feel they match the full criteria, so if you have most of the below, we'd like to hear from you:\nTechnical Skills\nKnowledge and experience of building cloud-hosted applications, using Node.JS, Typescript and WebAssembly in a start-up, public service, or charitable setting\nExperience with GraphQL, React and Python would be a nice to have\nPrior experience with Azure (ideally), AWS or GCP\nComfortable working with Infrastructure as Code, such as Terraform\nKnowledge of good data modelling and design patterns; in-depth knowledge of relational databases (e.g. PostgreSQL) and familiarity other types of data stores\nGood experience in using modern, agile development practices like code review, TDD, CI/CD and pairing using tools like Git and GitHub\nExperience of operationally managing software components once live, including; observability, logging, metrics, error reporting, debugging and live incident management\nExperience of working with sensitive personal data\nCompetencies\nExperience working in/with cross-functional teams consisting of e.g. engineers, product, security and non-technical stakeholders\nAbility to communicate with stakeholders and audiences outside your own team\nExperience working in small, growing organisations with a high degree of ambiguity, where flexibility is valued\nStrong understanding of software quality principles and practices\nComfortable in mentoring and coaching less experienced engineers\nComfortable in taking part in and sometimes facilitating technical discussions\n\nHiring Process\nWe feel hiring should be transparent and give you a real sense for what Our Future Health is like. Here's what you can expect:\nInitial chat with our Talent team (30 min) to get to know each other, discuss the role, and answer any questions you have.\n1st interview with our Head of Engineering (30 min) - this is an opportunity to meet your potential line manager and for you both to align on role expectations.\nTechnical interview with 2-3 members from our engineering team (90 min). This will include a short task you’ll need to prepare in advance of the interview and is designed to get a sense for how you'd approach the real-world responsibilities of this role.\nFinal stage competency interview (60 min) with a small cross-functional panel of your potential new colleagues. This will focus on how you collaborate, work with stakeholders, and navigate ambiguity and challenges in real-world projects.\nBenefits\nCompetitive base salary from £60,000\nGenerous Pension Scheme - We invest in your future with employer contributions of up to 12%\n30 Days Holiday pro rata + Bank Holidays - Enjoy a generous holiday allowance with the flexibility to take bank holidays when it suits you\nEnhanced Parental Leave - Supporting you during life’s biggest moments\nCycle to Work Scheme - Save 25-39% on a new bike and accessories through salary sacrifice\nHome & Tech Savings - Get up to 8% off on IKEA and Currys products, spreading the cost over 12 months through salary sacrifice\nEV Scheme - Save up to 40% on a brand new electric vehicle all-inclusive package through salary sacrifice\n£1,000 Employee Referral Bonus - Know someone amazing? 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