Senior Backend Engineer, MANUAL
Product Team
Potential for sponsorship
3 days a week in office (Brand new office a 5 minutes walk from Borough Market)
Healthcare at scale
Job no longer available
Healthcare at scale
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
Potential for sponsorship
3 days a week in office (Brand new office a 5 minutes walk from Borough Market)
201-500 employees
Company mission
To extend the healthy years of lives for a large part of the population in the UK, Brazil, and beyond focusing on life-impeding conditions like hormonal imbalance, obesity, hair loss and menopause.
Role
Who you are
- We're looking for someone who brings deep engineering skills and a strong sense of modern product development.
- Empathy for the user – You care about patients having an exceptional experience. You spot clunky workflows and are motivated to fix them
- Data-driven – You’ve are familiar with user analytics, feature flagging and observability tools. You default to data to guide your decision making
- Team contributor – You care about clean code, good reviews, and helping others grow.
- End-to-end ownership — You don’t just ship code; you take full responsibility for what you build
- You care about the why, not just the what, and you're just as comfortable in technical discussions as you are exploring user needs, product trade-offs, and impact
- Bias for action - You agitate for change, to try new approaches and are an ambassador for innovation. You are willing to go outside your comfort zone to solve a problem quickly
- First principle thinker - You can take a step back and thing about problems holistically. You challenge assumptions and know when its safe to take shortcuts
- At least 5 years of commercial experience as a software engineer or equivalent
- Backend craft – Strong experience with any modern backend language, for example PHP, Python, Ruby or C#. Have worked with a range of database technologies and web frameworks etc
- Great verbal and written communication skills and the ability to explain complex ideas in a simple way to non-engineering teammates
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer (Product Team) to contribute to our mission of improving patients' health and their lives.
- Extreme Ownership – You’ll lead the full lifecycle of features: from understanding the problem and sketching out rough ideas, to building it, shipping it, and measuring how it’s performing
- Drive & shape the future of our architectural vision. Helping us scale, move fast and onboard quickly
- Craft clean, efficient code that’s built to last. Holding high standards for yourself and your peers
- Cross-functional partner – You work closely with PMs, designers, and analysts to make decisions and shape the product together
Application process
- Talent intro call: a call with our talent team to provide an overview of Manual
- Engineering Lead interview - 45 minutes with one of our leads to understand your experience and what you are great at
- Coding/System Design Interview
- 2 Interviews with members of the executive team (30 mins)
- Offer
Salary benchmarks
Our take
MANUAL is a digital healthcare clinic supporting patients with life-changing conditions such as hormonal imbalance, obesity, menopause and hair loss across the UK and Brazil. It does this with a blend of doctor-specialist services, prescription medication backed by science, and digital products informed by behavioural change.
It works to remove the stigma around health problems such as obesity, hormone imbalances and menopause through teleconsultations, testing, regular check-ins and a range of tools, supplements and medications to treat common issues like poor sleep, hair loss, erectile dysfunction and skin conditions. Originally focused solely on men's health, the service led a shift in attitudes among its customers, with about half the men using the service to treat more than one condition, indicating that they're not just seeking help for the worst health issue that they're experiencing. Since then it has opened its services to all genders with a hope to sift attitudes on a wider variety of health issues.
The company has raised an impressive amount of capital, most recently in 2024. And this funding is being used to expand its reach and enhance its services, particularly focussing on treatments for hormonal imbalance, obesity, and hair loss.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Sep 2024
$39.4m
EARLY VC
Mar 2021
$30m
SERIES A
Total funding: $74.5m
Company benefits
- Generous stock option plan
- Private medical insurance plan (Amil S750)
- Access to English learning platform with 1 class hour per week
- Gym and wellness benefit with Wellhub
- Hybrid role based in São Paulo, with 1 week per month of in-person working (usually last week of the month)
- 22 business days of vacation
- A growing team with plenty of opportunities for progression, ownership of goals and a direct impact to MANUAL
Company HQ
Southwark, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
George Pallis
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previous the Global Head of Marketing at Deliveroo and Head of Performance Marketing at TransferWise.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at MANUAL
- Diversity and Inclusion at MANUAL is about fairness. It's a fabulous virtuous circle and we are fusing on:
- Conversations - we are creating a common language via initiatives such as our monthly Tea & Learns, our IWD spotlight on our incredible female-identifying employees, our ongoing celebrations…
- Learning - we are offering D&I trainings catered to our needs such as unconscious bias, psychological safety, mental health support...
- Measurement - we are proud of our 93%+ favourable responses in our monthly pulse confirming that everyone feels welcomed and all voices are listenned to at MANUAL.
- Culture - we are feedback-driven culture, we are humble and love to learn from each other!
- We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of gender, age, disability, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation and gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, marriage and civil partnership. We base all our employment decisions on merit, job requirements and business needs. This applies to all decisions related to hiring, training, remuneration, promotion and potential termination.
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