Senior Software Engineer, Our Future Health

Node.js

£85-100k

MongoDB

AWS

TypeScript

GCP

Node.js

Terraform

MySQL

Azure

Git

Senior level

London

Office located in Holborn, London

Health research programme

Job no longer available

Health research programme

201-500 employees

HealthcareB2CB2BCharitySocial ImpactMedTech

Job no longer available

£85-100k

MongoDB

AWS

TypeScript

GCP

Node.js

Terraform

MySQL

Azure

Git

Senior level

London

Office located in Holborn, London

201-500 employees

HealthcareB2CB2BCharitySocial ImpactMedTech

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.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Experienced as a Senior Engineer using Node.js and Typescript in the development of solutions in a commercial, public service, charitable or similar setting
Experience working in cross-functional agile teams on large-scale consumer-facing web applications in both frontend and backend
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, MySQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g. MongoDB)
Experience working with best practices like code review, TDD and pairing using tools like Git, GitHub or Azure DevOps
Experience with operationally managing software components once live, including; observability, logging, metrics, error reporting, debugging and live incident management
Experience working with sensitive personal data
Knowledge of setting up and modifying CI/CD pipelines
Proven ability to communicate with stakeholders and audiences at different levels
Ability to lead by example and encourage software engineering best practices
Experience in mentoring and coaching less experienced team members

What the job involves

We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer to design, build and operate the platforms that power Our Future Health. This is an exciting opportunity to join the UK’s largest-ever research programme!
In this role, you will join a small team that will enable us to deliver our mission of enabling cutting-edge health research across a cohort of 5 million
You’ll be hands-on with the development of new features, removal of tech debt and contributing to continuously improving the quality of the code base
Get to work closely with your colleagues with pairing, peer reviews, coaching, discussion, and other collaborative activities which elevate everyone to reach high standards and result in the delivery of high-quality software products
Engaging in collaborative sessions towards refining requirements, formulating architectural proposals in support of upcoming initiatives
Engage in reflective sessions such as retrospectives or incident post-mortems contributing, suggestions on how we can improve
Participating in live operations support rotations that monitors live systems and quickly and effectively react to potential incidents and provide support to operations teams such as customer support. This could include being part of an out of hours on-call rotation
You’ll have the ability to participate in wider engineering initiatives that look to evolve highly effective ways of working that fit Our Future Health and our engineering community
Looking to the future, you'll be contributing to the future technology strategy, considering how technology trends may be leveraged at Our Future Health

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 runs in parallel), Our Future Health is set to become the largest health research program in the world. With funding from the government and the private sector (with particular interest from pharmaceutical investors), it received £354 million in 2025 to power its research. Ultimately, this 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

Glassdoor (3.9)

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 & 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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