Our Future Health is hiring a Staff Engineer (Research Enablement) to act as Tech Lead for a new squad dedicated to empowering researchers. You will play a key role in provisioning the tooling and resources that enable health insights from the Our Future Health resource, collaborating closely with partner DNAnexus and leading internal development.
What You'll Do
- Act as Tech Lead for the Research Enablement squad.
- Lead the development and integration of products and services built internally.
- Play a key role in collaboration with the DNAnexus team on the Trusted Research Environment.
- Operationally manage software components once live, including observability, logging, metrics, error reporting, debugging and live incident management.
What We're Looking For
- Led the architectural design of systems.
- Knowledge and experience of building cloud-hosted consumer web applications and backend services using open source technologies like Node.js, Ruby on Rails, or Python in a start-up or scale-up environment.
- Experience building backend systems for data movement, processing, storage, and provisioning services for non-technical user data access.
- Comfortable working with Infrastructure as Code, ideally with knowledge of Terraform.
- Knowledge of good data modelling and design patterns; in-depth knowledge of relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL) and familiarity with other data store types.
- Expertise in modern, agile development practices like code review, TDD, CI/CD and pairing using tools like Git and GitHub.
- Experience of operationally managing live software components.
- Experience of working with sensitive personal data.
- Strong experience working and collaborating with vendors/partners.
- Experience working in/with cross-functional teams consisting of engineers, product, UX and non-technical stakeholders.
- Proven ability to communicate with stakeholders and audiences at different levels.
- Understanding of operational, security, and legal factors in solution design, with ability to articulate trade-offs.
- Experience working in small, growing organisations with a high degree of ambiguity.
- Strong understanding of software quality principles and practices.
- Experience in mentoring and coaching less experienced engineers.
- Comfortable in facilitating technical discussions, encouraging collaboration and providing direction.
Nice to Have
- Prior experience with Azure (ideally), AWS or GCP.
Technical Stack
- Node.js, Ruby on Rails, Python
- Azure, AWS, GCP
- Terraform
- PostgreSQL
- Git, GitHub
Team & Environment
You will be the Tech Lead for the Research Enablement squad, working closely with partner DNAnexus.
Benefits & Compensation
- Competitive base salary
- Generous Pension Scheme – employer contributions of up to 12%
- 30 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays
- Enhanced Parental Leave
- Career Growth & Development – £500 per year to spend on Learnerbly
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Home & Tech Savings through salary sacrifice
- £1,000 Employee Referral Bonus
- Wellbeing Support including Mental Health First Aiders, 24/7 online GP services, and an Employee Assistance Programme
Work Mode
This is a hybrid role, based from our Central London office in Holborn.
Our Future Health is an equal opportunity employer.
