Staff Software Engineer

The role

You will build and scale a product as a product-minded full stack engineer. You will work across teams and directly with customers to create intuitive user experiences.

What you will do

• Build and scale the product
• Work across teams and directly with customers
• Ship intuitive, high-quality user experiences
• Influence product direction
• Identify and solve performance and usability challenges
• Produce high quality code that scales effectively
• Understand and mitigate risks of distributed systems

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of experience
• Operating at a senior or lead level
• Comfortable owning ambiguous problems end-to-end
• Experience in a startup or scale up especially at an early stage
• Fullstack (Backend leaning) with TypeScript or similar
• Designing and consuming scalable, well-structured APIs
• Working with production systems and performance considerations
• Integrating modern AI models into real-world healthcare workflows

Nice to have

• Founders/entrepreneurial mindset or have been a technical founder yourself
• Experience in scaling product environments or high-stakes domains (health, finance, infra)

Benefits

• Founding-level equity
• Paid volunteer days
• 6 working days a year off to socialise as a team
• Learning budget of £250 annually
• Homemade breakfast and lunch provided in office
• Team takeaways every Monday night
• Health and fitness budget of £60 per month
• 7 days of paid leave for meditation
• Choice of operating systems and tools
• Latest MacBook Pro for engineering teams
• Generous sick leave policy including mental health leave
• Annual team holiday

About the company

Healthtech-1 is building the front door of UK healthcare to make NHS appointments transparent and instantly bookable. They operate from within a working GP practice in East London and are backed by Y Combinator, Innovate UK and the NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme.