Full-Stack Software Engineer, Kooth
£46.8-55k
Effective personalised digital mental health care platform
Job no longer available
Effective personalised digital mental health care platform
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
£46.8-55k
201-500 employees
Company mission
Kooth's mission is to create easy to access online mental health services that work alongside you to provide compassionate and effective support.
Role
Who you are
- Enthusiasm for software engineering, across the whole stack
- A strong problem-solving attitude and willingness to contribute to technical decisions
- Knowledge of Javascript or Typescript, and of database technologies such as PostgreSQL and experience in delivering a web or native mobile application
- Understanding of high level architecture of systems and able to contribute feedback to system development
- A quality mindset, understanding what it means to ship maintainable, well-tested code
- Focus on pragmatic delivery, able to take ownership appropriately
- Understanding of the benefits of agile processes, data-informed development, and reliability
- Strong communication skills, builds great colleague relationships across disciplines
Desirable
- Web or mobile application development experience using React or React Native
- Experience with rapid application development techniques such as trunk-based development, automated testing at all levels and infrastructure-as-code
- An awareness and curiosity about application design and architecture patterns
- Worked in a cloud native environment like GCP or AWS with Kubernetes
What the job involves
- Reports to: Engineering Manager
- Though still learning, an Engineer II is a meaningful individual technical contributor to their squad. Guided by more senior colleagues, as well as working individually, they have a positive impact on Kooth’s product and business objectives
- Designing and building RESTful Node APIs, React frontends and/or React Native mobile apps
- Regularly releasing working software, using trunk-based development, automated test suites, and infrastructure-as-code principles
- Incorporating requirements such as performance, resilience, observability, maintainability, security and accessibility
- Collaborating with other disciplines, building effective working relationships
- With your team, achieving a shared understanding of user needs, Kooth commercial and operational goals
- Deepening knowledge of industry trends and best practices in software engineering, continuous integration, application design & architecture through pair/mob programming and other knowledge sharing approaches
- Developing code both individually and via pairing with others
- Supporting junior and new-hires in your specific domain areas for onboarding and pairing
- Joining the out-of-hours on-call response rota
Application process
- End Date: 6/5/25
Our take
Kooth offers free at the point of access mental health care to more than 5.4 million people via NHS commissioners, corporates, social workers, GPs and schools across the UK. It provides a mix of community-created content, forum sessions with other community members, and one-to-one counselling via online chat. All users sign up anonymously for the free-of-charge service and there's no digital tracking of session IP addresses. The aim is to provide a safe space where each person can get the support they need.
As a pioneer in online counselling, Kooth brings together emerging technologies with innovation in clinical practice and evaluation to create new models of care in mental health. The 2020-hired CEO Tim Barker’s data science experience will prove very useful in exploring whether there are patterns in its historic dataset that can be helpful to future users.
Kooth’s 2020 IPO came at a time when London listings were sparse. A testament to the important contribution its services can make at a time when businesses are becoming more conscious of the need to foster well-being in their employees and in the wider world. This is further exemplified by the 33% soar in share prices after a contract was announced to serve 13 to 25-year-olds in California.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
10% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- 28 days (plus Public Holidays)
- Yearly professional training programmes structured around you
- Pension contributions
- Remote Working
- Healthshield Care plan
- EAP programme, 24/7 Telephone Mental Health & GP
- Annual company share option awards
- Life Assurance (up to four times the amount of your annual salary)
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Incapacity Income Protection
Company HQ
Paddington, London, UK
Leadership
Tim Barker
(CEO, not founder)Worked previously as the CEO at DataSift and in Platform and Go-to-Market strategy at Meltwater after the company's acquisition of DataSift. Became Kooth's CEO in 2020.
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