Senior Software Engineer
Senior Software Engineer
Fully Remote UK | Up to £110,000 + Outstanding Benefits
Help Transform the Future of Clinical Research Through Technology
Are you an experienced Software Engineer looking for more than just another SaaS platform?
What if the systems you build could help accelerate medical breakthroughs, improve patient outcomes, and bring life-changing treatments to market faster?
At HireQ Talent , we're partnering with a rapidly growing health technology company that's redefining how clinical research is delivered globally. Their platform is helping research organisations eliminate manual processes, unlock critical healthcare insights, and streamline the development of new therapies for patients around the world.
With continued expansion across North America and Europe, they're now seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help drive the next phase of platform growth.
This is a fully remote opportunity to join a highly collaborative engineering team building secure, scalable, cloud-native solutions that are making a genuine impact on healthcare innovation.
Why This Role Stands Out
As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll play a pivotal role in designing and delivering the technology that powers a market-leading healthcare platform.
You'll work alongside talented engineers, product specialists, QA professionals, and DevOps experts to solve complex technical challenges, influence architectural direction, and deliver high-quality software used across the clinical research ecosystem.
If you enjoy ownership, autonomy, and building products that matter, this could be the perfect next step.
What You'll Be Doing
- Architecting, developing, and enhancing scalable backend services and APIs
- Taking ownership of features from design through deployment and ongoing optimisation
- Collaborating closely with Product, Engineering, QA, and DevOps teams
- Championing engineering best practices through code reviews, testing, and mentoring
- Improving system reliability, scalability, security, and performance
- Building and maintaining cloud-native applications and microservices
- Influencing architectural decisions and technical strategy
- Producing high-quality technical documentation and API specifications
- Identifying opportunities to simplify systems, reduce complexity, and improve delivery speed
What We're Looking For
Key Experience
- Strong track record building and supporting production-grade RESTful APIs
- Commercial experience developing backend applications, ideally using Python and FastAPI
- Expertise with PostgreSQL database design, optimisation, and maintenance
- Experience integrating external APIs and third-party services
- Advanced understanding of automated testing across unit, integration, and API layers
- Experience working with Docker and containerised deployments
- Success delivering software within Agile, cross-functional engineering teams
Technical Capabilities
- API-first development methodologies and OpenAPI standards
- Modern software architecture and distributed systems design
- Database modelling, ORM frameworks, migrations, and schema management
- Security-focused development including authentication, authorisation, encryption, and secrets management
- Cloud platform experience, particularly Microsoft Azure
- CI/CD pipeline development and DevOps best practices
- Monitoring, observability, logging, and performance tuning
Bonus Points For
- Experience within Healthcare, HealthTech, MedTech, Life Sciences, or regulated environments
- Background in high-growth SaaS or product-led technology businesses
- Knowledge of FastAPI, Pydantic, SQLAlchemy, Alembic, and the wider Python ecosystem
What's In It For You?
✅ Fully remote role anywhere in the UK
✅ Salary up to £110,000
✅ Build technology that directly contributes to healthcare innovation
✅ Join a high-growth company with global expansion plans
✅ Work on genuinely challenging engineering problems at scale
✅ Influence architecture, technical direction, and product evolution
✅ Collaborate with a talented and supportive engineering team
✅ Excellent benefits package and strong career progression opportunities
Ready to Build Technology That Makes a Difference?
This is a unique opportunity for a Senior Software Engineer who wants to combine technical excellence with meaningful impact.
If you're excited by modern cloud technologies, complex engineering challenges, and the chance to help shape the future of clinical research, we'd love to hear from you.
Apply today and play a key role in accelerating the next generation of healthcare innovation.