Senior Product Engineer

Overview

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Let's make the NHS the most advanced healthcare system in the world

The world's best healthcare, for free. It's not a new idea, it's called the NHS. But the largest healthcare provider is fundamentally broken. So we're on a mission to fix it with technology that actually works.

We love the NHS because it's accessible to all, free at the point of delivery and employs millions up and down the UK. But we've all read the headlines. It's under intense pressure with rising costs, GP strikes, budget uncertainty and an ageing population. Which means longer wait times, fewer appointments and lower quality care for the people who need of it most.

The NHS is beautiful, but broken.

The largest cost (£66bn+) is staff, who spend a ridiculous amount of time on mundane admin. 35% of NHS staff are employed to complete administrative work all day, every day. And that's where we're making a difference.

We're focused on relentlessly automating repetitive processes within the NHS. And we've had great early success. Our first product, Automated Registrations, is already used by 24% of GP practices in England. With this wedge in the market, we're now building more powerful tech that unlocks access to healthcare for the entire nation. Check out bookable.health for a sneak peek.

Our Principles

Exciting challenges lie ahead-guided by our principles, we'll meet these challenges with a thoughtful and caring approach to support our community of NHS GP practices. These principles drive everything we do at Healthtech-1:

Read more about our principles in the Healthtech-1 Handbook.

We have an ambitious mission: to unlock access to healthcare by getting patients to the right appointment the first time. We are hiring a senior backend engineer to help us build secure, reliable systems for patients and clinicians and help us integrate the latest AI models into the patient care navigation experience. Check out bookable.health to see what we're building.

This is a place to do your life's best work.

You'll report to Laurence (Engineering Lead) and work cross-functionally with our product teams. The right person will have the potential to grow into a Staff Backend Engineer.

Hear Laurence talk about the role, p.s. he does smile!

The North Star the entire company is shooting for is 50,000 Weekly Appointments Booked (WAB) by September 2026. Whilst the product team that you're in might change during your time here, your goals at a high level will remain the same. These will look like:

You fully own:

• The quality and speed with which you deliver tickets
• The quality of your code reviews

You co-own (with product and engineering):

• Technical roadmap/technical investment items
• Reliability of the system
• The design of the solution

You influence (but do not own):

• The product roadmap
• Tooling and software that the company pays for to improve developer productivity

This role is not for everyone

This is a high-ownership, high-expectation role. You'll be working in a fast-moving healthtech environment where correctness, reliability, and speed all matter at the same time.

You probably won't enjoy this role if you:

• Prefer highly specified tickets over ambiguous problem spaces
• Need significant direction to make technical decisions
• Optimise for elegant abstractions over simple, robust solutions
• Are uncomfortable being on-call for the systems you build

You will enjoy this role if you like owning problems end-to-end and raising the technical bar around you.

By day 30:
Understand our team and stack, and deliver early impact

• Spend your first week inside a GP practice to understand our users' world
• Understand your product team's goals and ways of working
• Understand our tech stack and the backend architecture behind it
• Deliver small and medium sized tickets, with some help/pairing
• Give code reviews in areas of code you become familiar with

Outcome: You've understood our context and shown ability to contribute to the team

By day 60:
Building a reputation for reliability in the team

• Regularly shipping larger items with no…