Staff Engineer, Our Future Health
Participant Engagement
Health research programme
Be an early applicant
Health research programme
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
201-500 employees
Company mission
To bring together 5 million volunteers from right across the UK who will be asked to contribute information to help build one of the most detailed pictures we have ever had of people’s health. Researchers will be able to use this information to make new discoveries about human health and diseases. So future generations can live in good health for longer.
Role
Who you are
- You have led the architectural design of systems
- Experience building cloud-hosted consumer applications, ideally in a start-up or scale-up environment, using open source technologies such as Node.js, Ruby on Rails, or Python
- Strong knowledge of modern frontend development, including JavaScript/TypeScript with frameworks like React or Next.js, with a track record of delivering accessible, performant, and maintainable user interfaces at scale
- Experience designing and implementing backend systems for data movement, processing, and storage, including services that enable access for non-technical users
- Prior experience with Azure (ideally), AWS or GCP
- 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 types of data store (blob, document, graph)
- Expertise in modern, agile development practices like code review, TDD, CI/CD and pairing using tools like Git and GitHub
- Experience designing user-facing systems for growth, engagement, or participation that integrate multiple third-party SaaS platforms into a seamless experience
- Experience of operationally managing software components once live, including observability, logging, metrics, error reporting, debugging and live incident management
- Experience of working with sensitive personal data, ideally in a regulated environment or with awareness of relevant standards (e.g. ISO 27001), applying privacy-by-design and security-by-design, and operating robust controls for data and participant consent at population scale
- Understanding of event-driven architectures and real-time messaging for large-scale participant communications
- Ability to design inclusive digital experiences that scale to millions of users
- Experience building reusable capabilities for adoption across multiple product domains
- You're comfortable working in 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 the importance of operational, security and legal factors when designing solutions, with the ability to articulate trade-offs and make informed decisions around design and technology choices
- Experience working in small, growing organisations with a high degree of ambiguity, where flexibility is valued
- 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
What the job involves
- We’re hiring a Staff Engineer to work as a technical lead on our public-facing engagement experiences: The digital capabilities that help people join Our Future Health, stay involved over time, and remain motivated to contribute
- This is a high-impact role where you’ll evolve and extend our platform to support millions of people in securely discovering, taking part in, and staying engaged with health research
- You’ll shape the architecture and technical direction, working closely with product, design, data, and operations to deliver secure, scalable, and inclusive experiences
- The work will span onboarding, retention journeys, communications, segmentation, personalisation, and feedback loops, combining greenfield development with integration of third-party tools into a seamless experience
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Millions of people spend too much of their life with poor health, with medical professionals only able to treat diseases when symptoms start to present. But what if later-life diseases could be prevented earlier through a better understanding of public health? Our Future Health is a ground-breaking new study, aiming to collect a blood sample and a short questionnaire from 5 million members of the British public.
One of the two major strands of genomic study in the UK (the other is the Newborn Genomes Program which will be running in parallel), Our Future Health is set to become the largest health research program in the world. With funding from government and the private sector (with particular interest from pharmaceutical investors) it will cement Britain's reputation as a world leader in genomics, and is expected to lead to major advances in the fight against obesity, diabetes, heart disease and other causes of poor health.
Aside from looking for volunteers for the study, Our Future Health is also seeking engineering talent to help build the infrastructure that will gather, analyse and protect the research data. It will be exciting to see how this charity develops and what discoveries emerge from its data in the future.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
131% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Generous company pension package with employer contributions of up to 12%
- 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
- We have a lovely new office in Holborn, Central London and we offer flexible and remote working arrangements.
- We offer all employees a life assurance policy.
- Training support to help you achieve your potential.
- All employees are covered by a group income protection scheme to support them in the event of long term sickness.
Company HQ
Holborn, London, UK
Leadership
Raghib Ali
(CEO, CMO & Chief Investigator)Also a Clinical Epidemiologist at the University of Cambridge, an Associate Fellow at Green Templeton College, University of Oxford, and a Research Professor at New York University Abu Dhabi.
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