Senior Fullstack Engineer

Wereat an exciting stage in our growth as a digital HealthTech company with increasing traction across clinical trials and life sciences.

Over the past yearweveinvested significantly in our application data and infrastructure to support a scalable reliable and secure platform for the next phase of growth.

About the role

Werelooking for a Mid/SeniorFullstackEngineer to join ourProductEngineering team and help build reliable scalable products and services that power our health-tech platform.

Youllwork in a cross-functional and autonomous squad that owns meaningful product areas end-to-endfrom understanding user and business problems exploring solution options shaping technical approaches with Product and Design through delivery tooperatingwhat you build in production.

This role is not just about foranengineerwhocan contribute meaningfullyduring the definition phase: clarifying requirementsidentifyingrisks modelling systems making trade-offs and designing practical solutions before work is broken down into stories or code is written.

This role is suited to someone who enjoys building product experiences across the stackwith a thoughtful approach to usability reliability maintainability and operational quality.

We do not expectequal strengthacross frontend backend mobile and platform interested in strong fundamentals good judgement collaboration and product thinking.

Our technology stack and toolinginclude:React Capacitor NodeJS GCP TypeScript DockerBigQuery Sanity CMS GitHubVercel andBugsnag.

You will report to the Engineering Manager within your product squad and be part of our broader engineering team of about 10. This is a full-time role either hybrid (Leeds) or fully remote in the UK. We cannot sponsor visas to work in the UK.

Whatyoulldo

• Deliver features end-to-end: definition implementation testing deployment and monitoring

• Work closely with Product and Design during the definition phase to shape problems explore options and design practical solutions before implementationwith clear documentation for technical design & decisions

• Break down ambiguous product problems into clear technical approaches risks assumptions and implementation paths

• Contribute to technical discoveryproducelightweight architecture/design documents and story shaping before delivery begins

• Refine stories collaboratively with the squad helping break work down into clear deliverable subtasks and technical milestones

• Build andmaintainbackend services and APIs that support core product workflowsscalableAPIsand data access patterns for mobile and web applications

• Implement andmaintainautomated testing including acceptance tests unit tests and integration tests

• Ensure applications and services are observable maintainable and safe tooperatein production

• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines release processes and operational improvements

• Participate in code reviews incident learning agile ceremonies and continuous improvement

• Write clean maintainable and well-tested code aligned to engineeringstandards

Required

• Strong experience building production software systems in modern JavaScript/TypeScript environments

• Experience in:

• frontend/mobile engineering using React and related technologies

• backend/platform engineering building APIs and services in production environments

• Ability to reason through system design trade-offs data flows APIs user journeys and operational considerations

• Experience contributing to technical discovery solution design and story shaping with Product and Design

• Ability to communicate proposed solutions clearlyin working sessions written design notes or lightweight technical documentation

• Strong understanding of API design frontend/backend integration and scalable application architecture

• Experience working in agile product teams with collaborative story refinement and iterative delivery

• Experience implementing automated testing strategies including unit integration and acceptance testing

• Confidence debugging production issues and learning from incidents

• Experience writing clean maintainable and testable code

• Good communicationskills and ability to work collaboratively within cross-functional teams

RequiredTechnical Skills

Experiencewiththe following technologies:

• React

• TypeScript

• NodeJS

• API and database schema design

• CI/CD tooling and GitHub workflows

• Automated testing frameworks

Desirable

• Experience with healthcare technology or regulated environments

• Experience with (or otherheadlessCMS platforms)

• Experience with mobile app release and operational processes

• Technical skills: Docker GCP serverless environments Capacitor (or similar mobile frameworks)

Behaviourswerelooking for:

• Ownership and accountability:you care about product qualityreal wporldreliabilitydeveloper experience and responsible data handling

• Product and systemsthinking:you care about understanding the problem and designing the right solution before writing code

• Structured thinking:you can navigate ambiguity assess trade-offs and develop clear technical approaches

• Collaboration andcommunication: you work effectively across Product Design and Engineering and communicate clearlywith both technical and non-technical stakeholders

• A mindset of continuousimprovementcuriosityandrisk awareness

• Gross salary: 75-82Kper year

• 28 days annual leave peryear(plus public holidays)

• 500 annual training budget

• 200 home working budget (one-off)

• Up to 6% pension match (salary sacrifice)

• EMI share options

• Flexible working with core hours

• Enhanced (family & parental) leave policies

About Little Journey

Little Journey was founded by Dr Chris Evans a paediatric anaesthetist and researcher whowitnessedfirst-hand the impact that procedural anxiety poor preparation and inconsistent communication can have on patient experience engagement and clinical with Sophie Copley an expert in human-centred product designthehealthcareplatformwas developed anddemonstratedsignificant benefits in improving care efficiencycomplianceand patient rapidly adopted across the NHS supporting childrenundergoing surgery before being expanded to supporta widevarietyofcommonprocedures.

Building on thisinitialsuccess Little Journeyexpanded into clinical trials applying the same principles of personalised education emotional support and engagement to research settings. Our Life Science platform Trial Flow supports trial participants and their families across therapeutic areas to alleviate the burdensthey face as they navigateparticipatingin a clinical platform is now a globalsolutionand we work with major pharmaceutical companies.

Little Journey isa Series A HealthTechstart-upand wearea highly collaborative mission-driven organisation with a team ofabout 30 (includingProduct&TechSales &MarketingOperations &Delivery). We aim to change the future of personalised paediatric care one empowered family at a time. We value honesty and integrity trust and accountability reflection and learning proactive thinking and a deep commitment to helping others.

Diversity & Inclusion

We encourage people from allwalks of lifeto apply and strive toeliminateunconscious bias in our recruitment process. We do not discriminate on ethnicity religion sexual orientation gender identity veteran or parental status or disability. We encourage candidates from underrepresented groups to apply. If you need adjustments made to our application process to help accommodate any disabilities pleaselet us know on

Required Experience:

Senior IC