Senior Developer

Job summary

Job Summary

We are looking for talented developers to extend a next-generation laboratory results system that will record patients test results and make it easier for doctors to get to the information that matters.

Sonic Healthcare UKencompasses the two main entities in the UK, The Doctors Laboratory (TDL) and Health Services Laboratories (HSL). HSL is a partnership between The Doctors Laboratory (TDL), Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust and University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH). HSL was formed to provide pathology services to the NHS Trusts and has expanded further to provide services to other NHS Trusts. Over 2,500 staff work at Sonic Healthcare UK, primarily under the TDL or HSL banner.

We aim to deliver medically-led diagnostics, innovation, value and long-term investment to healthcare. With our core laboratory based at The Halo Building in London WC1H 9AX, we also have an expanding site in Manchester as well as smaller hospital-based laboratories across the country. We maintain rigorously high standards of quality while delivering efficiencies to healthcare through careful workforce planning, pioneering technology and significant investment in infrastructure and IT.

Main duties of the job

Tech stack

C#.Net Core, Kubernetes (AKS), VueJS. Deployed in Azure Devops (CI/CD). Azure SQL database.

Where will you work?

This is a hybrid role based in London. We use Teams for meetings and instant messaging. Our head office is a brand-new laboratory near Kings Cross. We may ask that you visit our labs to understand what we do.

What are we doing?

Hospital lab systems haven't evolved much in many decades, so there is enormous scope to innovate in this area. We have built a solid web platform deploying to Kubernetes services in Azure. The system has been running the labs for multiple hospitals across London for a few years. It connects up to the machines that run our blood tests and to the hospital systems to send results to patients. Now we need experienced in-house developers to take it to the next level. You will join a team with three developers, an IT operations team, and many experienced scientists.

Who are you?

You will be a well-rounded developer with some experience of front end and back end and you should have some familiarity with the full stack.You should be the kind of person that likes to take ownership of your system, and actively looks for ways to improve things, including monitoring solutions and updates. You should be able to write your code clearly and in a way that is easy for other developers to support and extend.

About us

At TDL we offer a variety of excellent staff benefits including:

Training and development opportunities supporting professional development

Annual performance related salary reviewNo banding restrictions: As we are a private company we are not restricted by salary bandings and so are able to negotiate appropriate salaries based on experience. This also means that annual salary reviews do not hit a band ceiling Discounted gym membership we have a corporate gym membership scheme with Better Gyms

Cash healthcare plan cash back on a variety of healthcare costs including dentist and opticians

Sick Pay Entitlement 5 paid days in the first year of employment, 20 days thereafter

Permanent Health Insurance and Death in Service Cover

Life Assurance providing salary continuation for long term illness (six months qualifying period)

Employee Assistance Programme supporting staff wellbeing

Season Ticket Loan Scheme interest free loan for the cost of annual travel ticket

Perkbox Access to additional staff perks and benefits such as high street discounts

Company Pension Scheme company and staff contributions which increase with service

Competitive annual leave allowance23 days rising to 28 days after 5 years service

Flexible working hours 40 hours standard working week