Senior Software Engineer (TypeScript & Node)

Location: Hybrid in London, United Kingdom, with attendance at the Holborn office at least once per month

Base salary from £88,000 per year

Company

Our Future Health is a public, charity, and private-sector collaboration running a large-scale UK health research programme focused on prevention, early disease detection, and improved treatment.

What you will do

• Build and operate secure event-driven services, APIs, and full-stack applications for the Research Enablement squad.
• Develop tooling and services at the intersection of the Trusted Research Environment and bespoke security assets.
• Design systems that support secure analysis of sensitive health and genetic data.
• Manage software components operationally after launch, including observability, logging, metrics, error reporting, debugging, and incident response.
• Work with engineers, product, security, operational teams, external partners, and non-technical stakeholders.
• Mentor less experienced engineers and contribute to or facilitate technical discussions.

Requirements

• Experience building cloud-hosted applications with TypeScript and Node.js in a start-up, public-service, or charitable setting.
• Prior experience with Azure, ideally, or AWS or GCP.
• Comfort working with Infrastructure as Code, ideally Terraform.
• Knowledge of data modelling and design patterns, with in-depth knowledge of relational databases such as PostgreSQL and familiarity with other data stores.
• Experience with modern agile practices including code review, TDD, CI/CD, pairing, Git, and GitHub.
• Experience managing live software components, including observability, logging, metrics, error reporting, debugging, and incident management.
• Experience working with sensitive personal data.
• Experience collaborating in cross-functional teams and communicating with stakeholders outside the engineering team.
• Experience in small, growing organisations with significant ambiguity, flexibility, and strong software quality practices; ability to mentor engineers and participate in technical discussions.

Nice to have

• Experience with GraphQL, React, WebAssembly, and Python.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully hybrid working with flexible and remote working arrangements.
• Employer pension contributions of up to 12%.
• 30 days of holiday pro rata plus bank holidays and enhanced parental leave.
• Cycle-to-work, home and technology, and electric vehicle salary-sacrifice schemes.
• Wellbeing support including Mental Health First Aiders, 24/7 online GP services, and an Employee Assistance Programme.

Hiring process

• Initial 30-minute Talent team chat, followed by a 30-minute interview with the Head of Engineering.
• A 90-minute technical interview with 2–3 engineers, including a short task to prepare in advance.
• A final 60-minute competency interview with a cross-functional panel focused on collaboration, stakeholder work, ambiguity, and real-world challenges.
• Applicants requiring reasonable adjustments may contact talent@ourfuturehealth.org.uk.