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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