Lead Software Engineer - B/E Specialist

March 28

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Little Journey

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Little Journey is a company dedicated to supporting children's health by providing personalized care through engaging and interactive content. Their platform is designed to psychologically prepare and support families throughout healthcare interactions, aiming to improve healthcare experiences and outcomes. Little Journey offers solutions for clinical trials, hospitals, and direct engagement with patients and families, including a free smartphone app highly rated by users. The company's services are designed to reduce anxiety and improve patient outcomes, particularly for children and their families. Based in London, Little Journey focuses on enhancing healthcare journeys through innovative approaches tailored for children.

Healthcare Innovation • Tech For Good • Human Centred Design • Anxiety Management

2 - 10 employees

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

☁️ SaaS

🧘 Wellness

💰 Seed Round on 2022-02

📋 Description

• This role is focused on leading the back-end development of APIs and services that power Little Journey’s innovative and growing healthcare and life science products. • This position is remote in the UK, with a hybrid option in Leeds. • Joining our team of F/E and F/S Typescript engineers, you will be the B/E specialist and a lead engineer, designing, building and maintaining Little Journey’s back-end applications, APIs and services. • You will make critical decisions on how we design and implement our products and engineer them for performance, scale and modularity. • Embedded in one of our product squads, you will have a remit that cuts across all Little Journey’s software products, leading our back-end tribe and working closely with F/E leads to meet product challenges holistically. • You will champion pragmatic, standards driven engineering practises: supporting, mentoring and empowering F/E and F/S colleagues to implement complete features. • You will have a significant impact on the whole product lifecycle, guiding technical planning and decision making, implementing back-end features, designing, provisioning and maintaining infrastructure and supporting effective CI/CD pipelines and processes. • Immediate responsibilities include taking the lead on development of our core back-end applications and services, achieving a strong understanding of our product and technical roadmaps, and delivering high-priority features from your home squad’s backlog.

🎯 Requirements

• 5 years min commercial experience with Typescript at scale – preferably in a SaaS / enterprise product • Substantial experience in a lead / senior back-end development role • 5+ years commercial experience with JS/TS application frameworks – NestJS (preferred), Express, NextJS, NuxtJS for example • Commercial experience of enterprise database solutions (Postgres preferred) • Commercial experience with headless CMS solutions – Sanity (preferred), Contentful, StoryBlok etc • Commercial experience with observability tooling – Bugsnag, DataDog, Sentry etc • Commercial experience of developing modular applications for high availability and scale – experience in a platform / SaaS environment highly desirable • Commercial experience provisioning and maintaining cloud infrastructure (GCP (preferred), Azure, AWS) maintaining infrastructure as code (Terraform preferred) • Commercial experience developing and maintaining CI/CD tooling (Vercel, Github, Gitlab pipelines) • Standards driven, pragmatic development approach that incorporates TDD & DDD and a consistent application of Privacy and Security by design principles • Experience of multi-tenant / SaaS applications • Experience in a regulated / health or medical environment

🏖️ Benefits

• £90-105K annual salary – depending on experience • 28 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) • Pension match up to 6% • £500 annual training budget • £200 one off home working budget • £50 annual wellness budget • Flexible working within core hours (9.30am – 4pm) • Enhanced leave policies such as maternity / paternity / family / women’s health leave