Software Engineer - Backend Developer

• Build, maintain and support backend services using mostly TypeScript, NestJS and TypeORM.
• Develop REST APIs and service-based backend components.
• Work with PostgreSQL, including schema design, migrations, query performance and data integrity.
• Support production systems, including monitoring, troubleshooting, incident response and root-cause analysis.
• Maintain and improve GitHub-based CI/CD pipelines, deployment workflows and backend release processes.
• Work with Terraform and cloud infrastructure across AWS and/or GCP.
• Support secure configuration, secrets management, access control, audit logging and least-privilege practices.
• Work with authentication and authorisation systems, including Keycloak.
• Write clean, maintainable, tested and production-ready code.
• Document backend systems, deployment procedures and operational processes where needed.

• At least 5 years of commercial software development experience.
• Production experience with Typescript, NestJS (or similar); other enterprise backend framework experience will also be considered.
• Experience with TypeORM or similar ORM/data-access approaches.
• Strong production PostgreSQL experience.
• Experience building and supporting SaaS platforms or production backend services.
• Experience designing and maintaining REST APIs.
• Practical experience with GitHub, CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows.
• Hands-on experience supporting production systems.
• Working knowledge of AWS and/or GCP.
• Ability to work with Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tooling.
• Strong understanding of application security, authentication, authorisation and secure coding practices.
• Experience working on systems where reliability, auditability and data protection are important.

Desirable experience

• Experience with Keycloak, OAuth2, OpenID Connect, SSO, RBAC or FGA.
• Experience working in healthcare, life sciences, finance or another regulated or security-sensitive SaaS environment.
• Familiarity with ePHI, HIPAA, GDPR, ISO 27001 or similar compliance expectations.
• Experience with observability tooling, logging, metrics and alerting.
• Experience with automated testing, API testing or production readiness checks.
• Experience supporting releases and production systems in a startup or small-company environment.

Personal attributes

• Hands-on, pragmatic and comfortable taking responsibility for production systems.
• Vocal about security, privacy and operational reliability.
• Comfortable working in a small team without separate production support teams.
• Calm and methodical when troubleshooting production issues.
• Clear communicator who can work closely with product and engineering colleagues.
• Willing to document, improve and stabilise systems as well as build new features.

• Competitive compensation and benefits
• Opportunity to work on impactful problems in digital health
• A fast-paced, supportive team culture focused on innovation and collaboration

We are a med-tech company leveraging cutting-edge AI to build scalable, regulatory-grade tools for video-based motor assessments. As part of our growing technical team, we’re looking for a highly capable and motivated Backend Developer to design, build, and maintain our cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines. You’ll play a key role in ensuring the reliability, security, and scalability of our systems that power AI-driven clinical research and digital health innovation.