Software Engineer, Patients Know Best

• Communication: You can express ideas clearly and concisely in writing. We value open, respectful and constructive communication across the organisation
• Proactiveness: You are motivated to take initiative and are comfortable working autonomously. In return, we give you the freedom to shape your work and value your suggestions
• Estimation Skills: You’re skilled at making and communicating estimates, with the understanding that these are not fixed deadlines but probability distributions
• Product-Focus: Whatever your role, your work should ultimately contribute to improving the product
• Testing Mindset: You understand the importance of automated tests and enjoy writing them. Around 50% of the code you write will be tests to enable safe refactoring and long-term maintainability
• Passion for Technology: You are passionate about technology and innovation. While we understand that everyone has different interests, we’ll do our best to adapt your role to align with your passions and strengths
• Writing code: we are looking for people who write lots of production-quality code. Please consider this when applying – this role can only be successfully filled by people who
• Either enjoy programming and are seriously good at it
• Or have proven to be outstanding in some other STEM field and want to become great software developers

• As a Software Engineer, you’ll be working across a diverse and dynamic technology stack, contributing to our products and infrastructure
• We don't expect you to know everything from day one, but you'll grow into the role, becoming comfortable with the stack and the tools we use. The key is a willingness to learn, adapt, and improve
• Our tech stack
• Infrastructure: Mostly Google Cloud Platform with some self-hosted components, primarily managed using Terraform (and a touch of Ansible)
• Orchestration: Kubernetes
• Storage: Postgres (scaling to very large instances), Redis, S3/GCS
• Observability: Prometheus, OpenTelemetry (OTEL), Stackdriver, Grafana
• Languages and Frameworks: Java, Kotlin, Spring for most applications, with smaller tools written in Go
• Additional focus: security tooling, robust automated testing, and infrastructure to support observability and reliability

• Outstandingly supportive and helpful environment
• Flexible working (and of course flexible work environment as we are fully remote)
• Opportunity to really make a difference – your work will make life better for millions of patients
• Space to grow and shape your career path
• 25 days holiday

Total funding: $17.1m

As personal data privacy becomes an increasing concern for companies and institutions, Patients Know Best (PKB) looks to address this issue within the healthcare industry. PKB provides patients with the agency to manage and control their own health records through an easy-to-use platform, helping them and their carers understand and make their own decisions on the best available treatments for them.