Senior Backend Engineer, Lantum

We work on a hybrid model that's very flexible. I'm based outside London and can commute in sparingly. The culture allows of working remotely or in-person equally well and leaves each squad to figure out themselves what works for them.

Trying to radically transform how staffing and scheduling works in healthcare is a big task with huge rewards. If something you worked on can help someone care for a patient better, decide to continue in medicine, or just have a better working life - that's why we do this job. Lantum really cares about our users and that translates to the work we do.

As a fast-growing startup, you need to be able to get on and do. Lantum encourages experimentation, smart risk taking, and creativity. We hire really smart people can, and want to, figure things out instead of saying 'It can't be done'.

At Lantum, we foster a culture of pride, where everyone takes joy in their work and contributions towards our incredible mission. Our team is built of intelligent, ambitious, and compassionate individuals. We wholeheartedly value the significance of our work and strive to ensure that those around us feel supported and valued.

I started in an Operations Associate position and have since moved into an Engagement Manager role at Lantum. The leaders here have always supported my professional development, encouraging me to take risks, and explore new opportunities. There is so much to learn at Lantum and everyone is eager to help each other achieve individual and team goals!

I love working for Lantum because I have the privilege of making an impact on how healthcare professionals navigate their work-life balance during these unprecedented times in the UK healthcare landscape. The individuals we serve through our platform are the driving force behind the meaningful work we do!

Developing software services for the NHS that improve clinician quality of life feels very rewarding. Given the strain that the NHS is under these days, being able to relieve some burdens that the clinicians and support staff struggle with makes me believe that my work makes a difference.

The engineering team is incredibly welcoming, enthusiastic, and intelligent. My work squad is one of the fastest, most well organised teams I have been a part of, and everyone is incredibly nice too!

At Lantum, we have fortnightly all-hands meetings, where the C-suite can be fielded any question. Also in the engineering team, any and all engineers can bring forward ideas to improve the platform, which are picked up and discussed by the team as a whole.

Working for Lantum is that much more meaningful knowing that I'm directly helping and contributing to support the variety of healthcare staff in the UK.

The people at Lantum are really great to work with! The teams are so diverse and unique, it is a genuine blast working and collaborating with them.

The hybrid working environment at Lantum really allows for more flexibility in my life, professionally and personally. Working remotely allows me to create a personalized and distraction-free environment where I can truly concentrate on my tasks. On the flip side, being in the office fosters collaboration, sparks creativity, and strengthens relationships with colleagues.

The work we do at Lantum helps ensure patients have access to the healthcare they need by matching locum staff with demand. Knowing that the work we're doing with our clients to make their lives easier and help fill their locum shifts is also in turn benefitting the wider community is particularly rewarding.

The whole team at Lantum are welcoming and genuine! It truly feels like everyone is in it together and colleagues will always go out of their way to make sure you have what you need to be set up for success.

My onboarding at Lantum was perfectly planned. Ramp up meetings were all scheduled into my calendar in advance so that on my first day I had a clear idea of what my first few weeks in the company would look like. Alongside this any useful materials and links had all been shared with me so that I could dive right in and get started!

Lantum's mission is to help the NHS save money and help more people. Our Product driven software made a hug different during covid-19 and continues to improve the lives of Nurses and Junior Doctors.

From the first day you are greeted by friendly, inclusive, and open people. You are paired with a mentor from within your department and a buddy from else ware in the company to help you get onboard and progress

Currently the company works 2 days a week in office with fully remote valuable to outstanding candidates. More the basic holiday + birthday leave. Sickness and Mental health leave is delt with very humanly.

At Lantum, open and transparent communication is the foundation of great team collaboration. There is an emphasis on knowledge sharing, Leadership are easily reachable, fortnightly company sessions helps to ensure that red tape/politics don’t impact an individuals chance to speak up.

The onboarding at Lantum was the most thorough of my career - lots of introductory sessions set up, great handover/intro in my new role and everyone was welcoming and helpful. My first month at Lantum was really focused on getting to know the company and my team before being thrown into a new role.

Joining Lantum to work on a unique product that is actually helping to solve a problem for the NHS was a win to me. It has been very rewarding engaging with users and getting direct feedback about the impact of our product. Additionally, it's been great to join a company that has a positive working relationship between product, design and engineering teams - enabling innovative and regular updates to our app.

I love working at Lantum because our work is helping the NHS with the biggest challenge it faces, having the right staff in the right place to deliver meaningful patient care. Everything the team does is focussed on this ultimate goal and is revolutionising the way the NHS manages its staff. This inspires and motivates you every day to find solutions to complex issues.

The energy of the team is amazing and means you always feel supported and excited to work! Everyone is so supportive that if you're ever stuck on something, everyone across the teams shall pitch in and bounce ideas with you until you find the solution. I feel very luck to work with such caring and intelligent people.

The people at Lantum are truly the best part about working here! During my time here I've made so many friends who I genuinely enjoy spending time with. Whenever we have an event in another city, a work social, drinks after work or just a lunch time together you always have so much fun and are always laughing. I'd never experienced this at work before and it makes me excited to come into the office.

I have been given a lot of autonomy in the role but almost all design work is discussed in design critique sessions where we have an open forum to ask questions and suggest improvements to each other's work. It's been really helpful is sense checking designs and helped me learn about how other people work and iterate on my designs.

In the design team especially I have check ins every week with my manager and then check ins roughly every month where we go into more depth about career progression and where you want to focus your work, we also have reviews every quarter where you evaluate your progress. The signposts for mid-level designer role were made clear and I was able to become mid-level in less than a year at the company.

Everyone at Lantum is inspired and engaged with the mission to improve the lives of healthcare workers. I work on the secondary care side, which is committed to improving the lives of junior doctors. If you take part in any research where you interview clinicians you can see the need for the product to improve people's quality of life and it is motivating to work to achieve this.

Lantum is working on such an important mission - to radically improve how the NHS manages its workforce to improve the quality of life of clinicians.

The team are great - they’re smart, hard working and collaborative - we work on hard problems every day which means we’re always learning from each other.

We are building technology that has the power to significantly improve the way that clinicians across the NHS work - that is hugely motivating.

The People Team do an excellent job at onboarding, it is structured, considered and you're given time to come to grips with the work. Everyone is friendly and welcoming.

I joined Lantum because of the mission. Doctors are burning out, and subsequently, leaving the workforce. We have an opportunity to positively influence doctor's wellbeing through empowering to have more autonomy over their work schedule.

The perks are great. We get free lunches on the days we are in the office and all travel to the office is reimbursed. Recently, we have also been given a personal learning and development budget, as well as share options.

It's great to be working on a product that aims to improve the experience of healthcare workers.

Some of the nicest people around. Great energy.

Whilst everyone has the same company goal to work towards, the product team really get to have free rein on how we get there.