Principal Back End Engineer | Node.js | up to £120,000 (City of London)

I am looking for a Principal Back End Engineer (Node.js) to join a scaleup on a mission to transform UK healthcare with their innovative FinTech solutions. At a time when the healthcare system is evolving rapidly, you would be pivotal in building products that focus is on accessibility and affordability for their customers.

As a high-growth start-up, they have launched their initial flagship product and are picking up speed to scale their next phase. It is important to mention that the organisation is part of a larger group meaning that you have all the agility and pace of joining a scale-up but with the stability and security of an established player (who are also a purpose driven B-corp).

What You’ll Do:

• Lead the Back End initiatives as well as coach, guide and inspire a talented team of Node.js Engineers
• Work alongside Product, Design, Operations, and Growth teams to prioritize and tackle customer-facing and internal challenges.
• Ensure systems that are being built are scalable, extensible, sustainable, and high-performing that deliver real value.

Expectations:

• Experience of leading a small and growing team of amazing Enigneers
• Effective communication, collaboration and leadership skills
• Strong understanding of Node.js, TypeScript and JavaScript
• Strong understanding of cloud-based application architecture and stack, preferably including AWS
• Good understanding of Docker and experience with CI/CD tooling
• Good understanding of security and observability best practices and tooling

What else?

• Experience building and maintaining high-traffic server-side web applications
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation
• Experience of working in a fast-paced product-focussed environment
• Good understanding of other programming languages such as Java, C#, C++, Rust, Go or Python
• Experience in healthcare or finance domains

Other stuff

Salary up to £120,000 basic

10% bonus

Hybrid working – 3 days in London (Tues-Thurs) – some flex if needed on times

Up to 10% pension

28 days hols + bank hols

Health cash plan and 4x Life Assurance.

If you are looking to work with some of the best Engineers for a mission led high growth scale-up then please hit “apply”.