Backend Engineer (Node.js/TypeScript)

Location: London HQ; hybrid role requiring 3 days per week in the office

Company

Healthtech scale-up building an all-in-one healthcare platform that combines medical expertise with technical products and services.

What you will do

• Develop scalable and reliable functionality for customer-facing and internal products, data platforms, and e-commerce capabilities.
• Build extensible platforms and architectures for launching new products and business lines.
• Develop and maintain integrations with third-party systems.
• Design and develop APIs for web and mobile products.
• Work with software engineers, designers, QAs, product managers, business stakeholders, and domain experts.
• Own delivery end to end, including scoping, architecture, implementation, testing, deployment, and operations.

Requirements

• Experience building web backends with Node.js and TypeScript, or willingness to learn them.
• Familiarity with scalable cloud architectures, design patterns, and engineering best practices.
• Practical experience with CI/CD and infrastructure as code.
• Experience with relational databases, search engines, and data management practices.
• Experience with TDD and unit, integration, and performance testing.
• Ability to work from the London office 3 days per week.

Nice to have

• Degree in computer science or equivalent qualification.
• Experience building highly scalable and reliable cloud systems used by millions of users.
• Familiarity with modern JavaScript frameworks.
• Experience working in cross-functional teams and attention to user behaviour and design.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a fast-growing healthtech scale-up focused on improving patient health.
• Collaborate across engineering, design, QA, product, business, and medical domains.
• Take ownership of work from initial planning through production operations.
• Continuous learning and opportunities to grow beyond the current comfort zone.