Senior Software Engineer

We are looking for a passionate and talented Software Engineer to join our growing product team. In this role, you will work across the full development lifecycle contributing to both front-end, back-end, and infrastructure development, and maintain scalable software solutions that deliver exceptional user experiences in our web and mobile platforms. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams, leveraging modern tools and frameworks to build robust, maintainable, and scalable applications. The successful candidate will be an experienced mobile engineer who is also comfortable operating as a broader software engineering generalist when required. This role will be hybrid between working from your UK home address and our Manchester office 3 days per week., * Provide technical direction for the architecture, development, maintenance and modernisation of our mobile (Android and iOS) and cross-platform technologies

• Support and participate in decisions on important long-term strategic plans for our platform
• Optimise application performance and user experience
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve production issues in a timely manner
• Product based development - collaborating with designers, product managers, clinicians, commercial, and other engineers to implement features and systems across web and mobile platforms
• Develop, test, and deploy safe, scalable, maintainable, and observable code across multiple stacks (including backend)
• Learning new technologies and frameworks in order to support and improve our platform
• Contribute to maintaining high agility, quality, efficiency, and morale in the team, through a continuous improvement ethos
• Proactively support and mentor colleagues in the team to deliver on the team’s commitments and constant development
• Ensure development proceeds according to the company’s commercial and technical strategies, in accordance with regulatory requirements, and agreed timescales
• Communicate with multiple technical and non-technical stakeholders across the company in an effective and positive manner
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends and emerging technologies (including AI) to improve our products and development processes

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) and relevant or transferable industry experience
• Strong experience with JavaScript, TypeScript, React, React Native
• Experience working with modern React Native tooling and ecosystems, including Expo, Vite, Vitest
• Experience supporting or working within legacy hybrid mobile apps - Cordova, Redux, Kendo UI
• Traditional web technologies: HTML/CSS/SCSS
• Practical experience investigating native iOS and Android issues using Swift, Objective-C, Kotlin or Java
• Experience diagnosing application, network, build, plugin and platform-specific issues
• Understanding of component-driven architecture and reusable UI development
• Understanding of native mobile platform concepts across iOS and Android
• Experience integrating RESTful APIs and handling asynchronous application state
• Familiarity with modern state management approaches in React applications
• Experience writing unit, integration, and end to end tests for frontend/mobile applications
• Strong understanding of mobile application lifecycles, platform-specific behaviour, application signing, store submission and release processes (iOS/Android)
• Knowledge of responsive and adaptive UI design across mobile and web platforms
• Experience working within Agile delivery environments
• Comfortable polyglot, some experience in other languages such as: Python, Java, C#, PHP
• Experience designing and maintaining large, critical systems with millions of users
• Excellent communication skills - brevity, accuracy, and adaptability
• Exposure to DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and containerisation

Advantageous:

• Proficiency with relational and non-relational databases (e.g., MySQL, MongoDB, DocumentDB, or PostgreSQL) and API development (REST or GraphQL)
• Productionisation of LLM-based systems (chatbots or similar)
• Experience working in healthcare, another regulated environment, or with sensitive personal data
• Significant experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud services
• Experience of back-end frameworks (e.g., Node.js, Django, or Spring Boot)
• Tech lead or line management experience

Pulled from the full job description

• Life insurance
• Cycle to work scheme, Evergreen Life Standard benefits package.