Senior Software Engineer, Patchwork

• Demonstrable experience working with agile processes (e.g. pair-programming and TDD) and a history of building a culture suited to fast scaling organisations within SaaS products
• Proven track record of monitoring and maintaining uptime of applications
• Strategies for identifying, managing, and reducing technical debt
• Demonstrable experience in architectural decision-making
• Ability to work at the level of infrastructure (i.e., AWS, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD toolchain changes)
• Proven polyglot, including Typescript and at least one of: JVM/Kotlin, React, or Ruby
• Willing to learn the full stack from UI through server and DB down to underlying infrastructure
• Experience in owning delivery of atomic features to actual users
• Proven experience with automated testing practices and quality-focused delivery
• Ability and passion to work in a fast-paced scale-up team environment, embracing its challenges and opportunities

Desirable

• Drive success within a thriving healthtech business by driving and delivering continuous improvement within our Technology Team!
• Patchwork’s Technology Team is responsible for building, testing, and maintaining our software products
• Technology at Patchwork is also responsible for all activities related to the development and maintenance of the platforms we build
• The Senior Software Engineer role is a collaborative and team-focused development role with additional responsibilities for infrastructure design and deployment
• The role holder will understand the value and the friction points in the developer toolchain and will help to improve it from a DevOps perspective
• Also, from supporting the system in production, it is essential to understand where there may be scalability bottlenecks, and to fix them by updating our deployed infrastructure
• Communicating effectively when making cases to a squad, the wider Engineering Team, or cross departmentally for changes in the technology process
• Fostering an agile culture of continuous improvement and collaboration and implementing improvements aligned with business objectives, including customer obsession, throughout the Technology Team
• Leading initiatives to improve monitoring and observability, DevEx and deployment scalability
• Designing and reviewing new features and services for scalability, performance, and maintainability, and to make technically and contextually informed decisions about tech stack, frameworks, and tools
• Writing high-quality, clean, and efficient code, developing complex modules and components as needed
• Leading by example in terms of coding standards, best practices, and design patterns; working collaboratively to embed good practices within a squad, and to help share these ideas across the wider Technology Team
• Ensuring code quality through testing, code reviews, and continuous integration practices, setting high standards for unit testing, integration testing, and code coverage
• Contributing to the design of software architectures, whilst considering scalability, performance, maintainability, and the infrastructure implications
• Evaluating the trade-offs between code problem solving vs cloud-native tooling, especially in relation to testability and deployability
• Tackling complex technical challenges and providing innovative solutions, troubleshooting existing codebases and proposing improvements to improve our software short-and long-term
• Collaborating cross-departmentally to gather requirements, define project scope, and ensure successful project delivery
• Communicating effectively with non-technical stakeholders to explain technical concepts and decisions, specifically working closely with the Product Team, building an effective and open relationship
• Contributing to planning, estimation, prioritisation, and providing technical insights to help manage risks and mitigate potential roadblocks
• Working with the wider Technology Team on infrastructure changes as an ongoing part of technical governance, reflected in the product roadmap
• Creating and maintaining technical documentation such as design documents, architecture diagrams, and coding guidelines; and upholding good standards of technical documentation within the Technology Team

• Video call with Talent Manager (Zoom - 30 mins).
• 1st stage interview with the Head of Tech Operations & Principal Software Engineer (Google Meets - 45 mins).
• Coding Test (3 working days to submit).
• Panel stage interview consisting of technical questions, pair programming with Patchwork team members, and a conversation with the CTO (Google Meets - 1 hour and 30 mins).