Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer

Health Tech | Fully Remote (UK) | Up to £110,000 + Excellent Benefits

Build Technology That Improves Lives

What if your next engineering role wasn't just another SaaS platform?

What if the systems you designed, the APIs you built, and the architectural decisions you made directly supported better healthcare outcomes around the world?

HireQ Talent is partnered with a rapidly growing Health Tech company whose platform is helping transform how healthcare organisations operate across Europe and North America. Following significant growth, they're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to play a key role in shaping the future of their technology platform.

This is an opportunity to join a highly talented engineering team where your ideas matter, your technical expertise is valued, and your work has genuine real-world impact.

Why Engineers Join

✅ Work on products that genuinely make a difference

✅ Fully remote anywhere within the UK

✅ Up to £110,000 salary

✅ High-growth, international technology business

✅ Influence architecture and technical strategy

✅ Modern cloud-native environment

✅ Collaborative engineering culture

✅ Clear progression and development opportunities

✅ Strong focus on quality, innovation and engineering excellence

The Role

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll be involved in far more than feature development.

You'll help design, build and scale a sophisticated platform used by organisations globally, working across backend services, APIs, cloud infrastructure and selected frontend components.

You'll contribute to technical direction, support architectural decisions, and help ensure the platform remains secure, scalable and highly performant as the business continues to grow internationally.

What You'll Be Working On

Engineering & Product Development

• Building scalable backend services and APIs
• Developing and enhancing cloud-native applications
• Delivering features from design through to production deployment
• Integrating external systems and third-party platforms
• Writing secure, well-tested and maintainable code
• Supporting full product lifecycle development
• Contributing across both backend and frontend projects where required

Architecture & Technical Direction

• Helping shape platform architecture and long-term technical strategy
• Driving engineering standards and best practices
• Improving system performance, scalability and reliability
• Reducing technical debt and simplifying complex systems
• Supporting key technology selection and architectural decisions

Team Collaboration

• Working closely with Product Managers, QA Engineers and DevOps teams
• Participating in technical reviews and architecture discussions
• Mentoring fellow engineers and sharing knowledge
• Championing a culture of continuous improvement
• Producing clear technical documentation and API specifications

What We're Looking For

Essential Skills & Experience

You will ideally bring:

• Strong commercial experience developing production-grade APIs
• Extensive Python development experience
• Excellent knowledge of FastAPI
• Strong PostgreSQL expertise
• Experience integrating external APIs and services
• Solid understanding of automated testing strategies
• Experience building and deploying containerised applications using Docker
• Proven experience working within Agile environments
• A track record of delivering scalable software products used by real customers

Tech Environment

You'll likely have experience with many of the following:

• Python
• FastAPI
• PostgreSQL
• Pydantic
• SQLAlchemy
• Alembic
• Docker
• Microsoft Azure
• CI/CD pipelines
• OpenAPI
• Distributed systems
• Modern application architecture
• Monitoring and observability tooling
• Authentication and authorisation frameworks

Extra Credit

While not essential, we'd love to see experience in any of the following:

⭐ React.js and modern frontend engineering

⭐ C# /.NET development

⭐ Healthcare, MedTech or regulated industries

⭐ High-growth SaaS organisations

⭐ Building globally distributed cloud platforms

⭐ Scaling products serving international users

What Success Looks Like

Within your first year you'll have:

• Delivered meaningful platform enhancements used by customers globally
• Influenced architectural decisions and engineering standards
• Helped drive scalability and performance improvements
• Become a trusted technical voice within the engineering team
• Contributed to the next phase of growth for a market-leading HealthTech platform

What's On Offer?

Salary: Up to £110,000

Location: Fully Remote (UK)

Benefits: Comprehensive package including learning and development opportunities

Culture: Collaborative, ambitious and engineering-led

Impact: Technology that directly supports better healthcare outcomes worldwide

Interested?

If you're an experienced Software Engineer looking for a role where you can tackle complex technical challenges, influence technical direction, and build products that genuinely matter, we'd love to speak with you.

Apply today and help shape the future of healthcare technology. 🚀

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