Senior Software Engineer March 2025
Senior Software Engineer March 2025
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Job Description
Obesity has become a global epidemic; in the UK we spend 9 billion a year alone on diseases like type 2 diabetes (thats 10 of the NHS budget). Whats shocking is most of this is preventable through sustained lifestyle and habit change.
Enter Second Nature.
Were here to help people take control of their health. By bringing together the latest behavioural science psychology technology and the talents of our incredible team our mission is to eradicate the global epidemic of chronic lifestyle diseases once and for all.
Our habitchange programme delivered digitally through mobile and web apps helps people to transform their lifestyle lose weight and ultimately reduce their risk for serious conditions such as type 2 diabetes and heart disease.
About us:
- Weve positively changed the lives of over 250000 people
- Were rated Excellent by over 7k of our members on Trustpilot
- Were growing extremely quickly & are now a profitable business
- Were one of the few consumer health brands that are commissioned by the NHS and leading health insurer Vitality Health
- Were a leading B2C provider of GLP1 medicationassisted weight loss programmes and 1 of 5 NICEapproved providers to deliver these services within the NHS in the future
- Our team members stay with us for an average of 4.3 years
You can find out more about working with us here and here.
The role:
Were looking for an exceptional Senior FullStack Engineer to work in one of our crossfunctional pods focused on building and improving an amazing product that changes lives. The pod will be responsible for one of the core company goals (OKRs) deciding what needs to be done to meet that goal.
You will report into an Engineering Manager within the pod and youll work with that manager the Product Manager and whoever else is needed to achieve the pods goals. You will be handson with your focus being on writing code sharing your technical experience with those around you and constantly driving for excellence in everything we do.
Alongside these goals you and your pod will be responsible for enhancements and monitoring of existing features as we strive for continuous improvement and accountability for our work.
You will predominantly work on our core tech stack including our React Native app our NextJS website and our NodeJS backend but there will be opportunity to learn about other parts of our ecosystem such as how we use Terraform and how we set up our AWS infrastructure.
Youll be part of a team of incredibly talented engineers learning and solving problems together and will rapidly take on responsibility and ownership of the things you build.
Requirements
Technical experience
- You have 4 years of software engineering experience
- You have worked across both the backend and frontend
- You have worked predominantly within the JavaScript ecosystem and have experience ofsomeof the below:
- Node.js
- React
- TypeScript
- React Native
Additional bonus experience in:
- NoSQL databases
- AWS infrastructure
Who you are
- You care about everything you do and always want to get better
- You take ownership of your work and development
- You are an excellent communicator and work well with a variety of people
- You push for software quality but can make the right trade offs when required
- You want to build a product that changes peoples lives
- You adapt and are happy to enjoy the ride in a fastchanging start up environment
- You never want to stop learning
And for your interest this is our allJavaScript tech stack:
- TypeScript for static typing
- React Native for iOS and Android apps
- NodeJS Express API servers
- MongoDB our main database
- NextJS for our web frontend
- Terraform for our IAC
- We are an AWSfirst company
Benefits
- A competitive market salary generous share options and biannual performance reviews to recognise your contributions
- Hybrid working policy: 2 days/week in our West London office the rest of the week remote working
- Quarterly company meet ups and socials
- A budget of 200/year to spend on professional development
- Option to join the Salary Sacrifice scheme and Cycle to Work scheme
- Youll get to work with intelligent friendly smart colleagues all incredibly passionate about solving the type 2 diabetes epidemic
- You can see the impact your work is having on improving thousands of peoples lives and tackling the obesity epidemic on a daily basis
- Youll have autonomy and responsibility for your work direction
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
