Staff Software Engineer (Go/Typescript)

About Birdie

At Birdie, we’re reimagining care for older adults. We’re building the technology that powers the future of home healthcare, empowering care teams with tools to deliver better, more dignified care, and enabling older people to thrive in their own homes for longer. Our all-in-one solution powers millions of care visits every month, equipping care providers with the tools they need to deliver exceptional, efficient care. We’re not here to tinker at the edges. We’re here to radically transform a broken system. That’s why we’ve built an all-in-one platform that supported over 30 million care visits in 2023 and more than 60 million in 2024 and we continue to grow our impact. We’re scaling fast, but staying true to our purpose. That’s why we’re proud to be a B Corp, using business as a force for good. Founded in 2017, Birdie is backed by world-class investors like Index Ventures, Sofina and Omers. In 2023, we ranked #6 in the Deloitte Fast 50, making us one of the fastest-growing tech companies in the UK.

Your mission

As a Staff Software Engineer and a key member of the Architecture team, your mission is to drive the technical evolution of our Rostering capability—the complex ecosystem that ensures the right care reaches the right person at the right time. You will be a leading voice in the design and delivery of our next-generation product features, partnering with squads to ship value while establishing the Go best practices that will enable our engineering teams to scale dignified care to millions.

How you will contribute

• Shape our Rostering Capability: You will act as a primary technical leader for our Rostering services. You won’t just build; you will be a significant voice in architectural decisions, ensuring our prime Go-based services are designed to support complex, high-impact product use cases.
• Elevate Go Standards: You will define and champion best practices for Go development across the organisation, creating a culture where code quality, performance, and maintainability are second nature.
• Deliver High-Impact Features: You will collaborate deeply with Product Managers and Designers to ship critical roadmap items, translating complex business logic into reality. While your primary technical focus is Go, you prioritise user value above all else. You will contribute across our full stack (including PostgreSQL, Kafka, TypeScript, React, and React Native) to ensure end-to-end delivery of features that solve real problems for our users.
• Lead by Example with TDD: You will act as a hands-on practitioner of Test Driven Development, demonstrating how rigorous testing frameworks lead to more reliable, resilient software delivery.
• Drive Technical Strategy: As a member of the Architecture team, you will help define our broader technical direction and service ownership models, using your expertise in AWS and Kubernetes to guide how we build and operate distributed systems at scale.
• Mentor and Empower: You will work directly with product teams as a force multiplier—mentoring engineers, reviewing designs, and helping teams overcome complex technical hurdles to keep delivery moving at pace.

What’s our stack and technical needs?

• Deep proficiency in Go, it’s one of our most important technologies
• Knowledge of TypeScript and React and NodeJS
• Deep knowledge of Relational databases and PostgreSQL
• Expertise in automated testing and a TDD approach
• Strong knowledge of common design patterns; Some familiarity with Kafka and Debezium and event handling patterns
• Experience deploying and operating software in a cloud environment including Kubernetes

You’ll thrive here if...

• You’re fuelled by purpose, not just perks
• You’re excited by pace, ambiguity and the chance to shape things from the ground up
• You bring experience in leveraging Go to architect resilient, high-scale products as a technical leader and a passion for using technology to solve complex human problems and are hungry to grow
• You lead with curiosity, feedback and aren’t afraid to roll your sleeves up
• You value autonomy, radical honesty, and building great things with great people

Imposter syndrome is real — and we don’t expect you to tick every box. If you're excited about our mission and think you could make a difference here, we want to hear from you.

What you’ll get from us

We believe people do their best work when they’re supported, trusted and inspired. Here’s how we build a world-class employee experience:

• Compensation: Competitive base salary, reviewed against benchmarks annually. Generous stock options—because we’re building this together. Bi-annual performance cycles with individual compensation reviews.
• Learning & Growth: Annual personal learning budget and access to training, coaching and mentorship. Time and space for growth—you set your development goals, we back them.
• Flexible Working: Hybrid working—1 day per month in our incredible London HQ (you’re welcome to come in more often if you like). Budget to set up your home workspace. Regular in-person meetups, socials and offsites.
• Time Off: 33 days holiday (25 days + public holidays). Extra day off on your birthday (use it whenever you like!). Company shutdown between Christmas and New Year. 2 volunteering days each year to give back to causes that matter.
• Family-first Policies: Industry leading paid primary and secondary caregiver leave. 5 paid days for fertility treatments for those who need it. Private health insurance with AXA Wellbeing perks via Happl (gym discounts, mental health support, and more).
• Other Perks: Cycle to work scheme. 4% employer pension contribution when you contribute 5% (UK). A deeply human, radically transparent culture.

Why Birdie?

Because you want to do meaningful work that improves lives— and grow at speed while doing it. We’re building more than a product— we’re building a movement. A movement to show that tech, when built with empathy and integrity, can change lives. We’re a team of entrepreneurs, dreamers, and doers. Join us to shape the future of care, work alongside ambitious, kind people, and help reimagine how society cares for its older adults. We dream big, act fast, and work collaboratively with one goal in mind: to create a world where we all age with confidence.

Equal Opportunities Statement

We’re committed to building a diverse team and inclusive culture. That means creating a hiring process that gives everyone a fair chance regardless of background, identity or lived experience. Need adjustments or support during the application process? Let us know. We’re here to help.

Ready to build the future of care? Apply now. Be part of something that matters.