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# Software Engineer - Backend Developer

- **Company:** Machine Medicine Technologies
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £77,530
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Query Performance, Amazon Web Services, Audit Trail, User Authentication, Automation of Tests, Software as a Service, Cloud Computing, Continuous Integration, Data Integrity, Github, Key Management, PostgreSQL, Object-Relational Mapping, OAuth, Commercial Software, Role-Based Access Control, Openid Connect, Secure Coding, Single Sign-On, TypeScript, Datadog, Data Logging, Okta, Delivery Pipeline, Software Security, Backend, Production Code, NestJS, Restful APIs, Terraform, Api Management
- **Published:** November 13, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5963500782

## About the Role

* 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.

## Description

* 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.