Senior Software Engineer
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Job Description
Our mission
All new medicines need to undergo clinical trials to show theyre safe and effective. But todays clinical trial infrastructure is stuck in the past and the cost of developing new medicines has skyrocketed as a result. Patients have to wait longer and pay more for new treatments.
Our mission is to fix this; we use software to help innovative companies run faster more reliable and patientfriendly clinical trials. Were still a young company but weve already had a big impact. Since founding the company in March 2021 weve helped run over 100 clinical trials involving tens of thousands of patients with a customer NPS of 100.
We recently raised a $55m Series B round from Balderton Capital with support from Creandum Firstminute Seedcamp and Visionaries.
About the role
We are looking for an experienced software engineer to build the platform powering the next generation of clinical trials. Join a small fastmoving team and help us scale the product to manage complex trials and bring new treatments to patients faster!
This is an onsite role in London with a flexible (hybrid) office arrangement. After an initial onboarding period fulltime at our headquarters (near London Bridge) we expect you to be in the office at least 3 days a week.
About you
Wed like to hear from you if
You have 4 years experience as a software engineer collaborating within a team
You are productminded: you want to understand why we are building something to figure out the best how in collaboration with product managers designers and users
You are comfortable working across a stack that includes frontend (TypeScript/React) backend (Python/Django/Postgres) and infrastructure (AWS). You dont necessarily have handson experience with all pieces of our stack but are happy to pick up technology thats new to you.
You like a startup environment with a small team 2 PMs 2 designers 7 engineers) where you bring ideas and initiative to improve our engineering practices and where you have opportunities to grow in all areas that interest you
You have high agency and a bias for action
You are passionate and curious about our mission; changing how the healthcare industry operates and how new health treatments are developed
You want to learn what life is like at a highgrowth missiondriven VC funded startup
You belong here! If your experience and interests match with some of the above we want you to apply.
What youll focus on
In your first month
Learn about clinical trials and the problems we are trying to solve through our onboarding training and chats with people across the company
Collaborate with the product team on a starter project and make your first commits
Become familiar with the core components of our stack (React TypeScript Django Python Postgres Amazon ECS)
In your first 3 months
Become a part of the regular product development cycle: take ownership of a feature in Citrus our trial delivery platform seeing it through endtoend from idea to deployment in collaboration with our PMs designers and other engineers
Get close to users observe the product being used in real trials and support the team in responding to feature requests and bug reports
Contribute actively to the teams processes and rituals such as product planning retrospectives release management and backlog grooming
Within your first year
Take on responsibility for substantial new features in Citrus and facilitate related architecture and design decisions
Shape our engineering practices and work on making the team more productive in areas such as testing CI deployment pipelines cloud architecture
Help grow the product & engineering team by interviewing candidates onboarding new hires and possibly mentoring junior engineers
Our Engineering Values
Embrace Simplicity We strive for simplicity in architecture design and code even though it sometimes means settling for a boring or lessthanperfect solution.
Collaborate Transparently We openly share our work and always encourage others to ask questions even when it creates a certain amount of overhead and may invite too many perspectives.
Take Ownership EndtoEnd We trust engineers to own the delivery of features from idea to production even when it means taking time away from coding to collaborate with users product management and design.
Assume Collective Responsibility We treat every issue as a shared concern even though you may have to fix things that you had no part in building or you have to accept changes to your work by others.
Have Fun! We inject fun and silliness into our daytoday work even though it may take some time out of our day to craft the perfect meme or play darts to settle a dispute.
What we offer
Make an impact across all areas of our business and fix one of the worlds most broken industries
Competitive salary plus meaningful stock options
Flexible working; we have an incredible office near London Bridge and encourage people to work 3 days per week from the office.
Unlimited holidays; everyone is encouraged to take off at least 28 days each year
60 monthly wellness allowance with complete flexibility on how to spend this including opting in to a company private health insurance scheme through AXA a wellhub membership and more!
Access to gym and retail discounts through our benefits platform Happl.
Enhanced Parental Leave 16 weeks full pay for primary care giver & 6 weeks full pay for secondary care giver
Cycle to work and other salary sacrifice schemes
Regular whole company and team events both in person and virtually!
1000 Learning and Development allowance each year to put towards courses certifications and development
A well stocked pantry and drinks fridge Monday breakfast spread and catered team lunch on a Thursday for the UK office every week!
Regular charity events and fundraising opportunities through our charity partnership with the Forward Trust.
UK visa sponsorship if youre not already eligible to work in the UK
Our hiring process
Initial conversation with Gina Talent Partner 30 minutes)
Functional Interview with 2 of our Engineers 60 minutes)
Values interview with 2 of our CoFounders Meri and Nik 30 minutes)
We try to arrange for atleast one interview to be inperson so you can see our office and meet more of the team.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
