Graduate / Placement Software Engineer in Cambridge

DeepTech Digital Health | Cambridge, UK | 12-month placement with potential permanent role

A note from our founder:

I founded electronRx because I believed that the technology to transform how we understand the human body already existed in our pockets. Seven years later, that belief has become validated science, authorised medical technology, and active clinical programmes running across multiple countries. We are now at the point where the scale begins. What drives this company is not a product roadmap or a market thesis. It is a genuine conviction that people living with cardiorespiratory disease deserve better tools, more insight, and more control over their own health. Every line of code, every dataset, every clinical investigation we run is in service of that. When you work here, you feel it. I am looking for people who want to build something that matters. Not just technically capable graduates, but individuals who care about the purpose behind the work and who want to grow in an environment where their contribution is real and visible from day one. If that is you, I would love to hear from you.

The opportunity:

ElectronRx is building predictive healthcare and digital medicine technologies that use everyday devices to help understand, monitor, and improve cardiorespiratory health. We are looking for a Graduate / Placement Software Engineer to join our product and engineering team. This is a hands-on software engineering role focused on building web and mobile applications, cloud-connected systems, internal tools, and user-facing product features that support real clinical and research programmes. This opportunity is suitable for a final-year student seeking a placement, a recent graduate, or an early-career software engineer looking to build meaningful software in a fast-moving deeptech health company. The role is initially offered as a 12-month graduate/placement opportunity, with the potential for a permanent position at the end for the right candidate.

The role:

You will work closely with engineers, scientists, clinicians, and product stakeholders to help design, build, test, and improve software used across our digital health platform. Your work may include:

• Building and improving web applications using modern JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks
• Developing mobile or web-mobile user experiences for health data capture
• Integrating frontend applications with cloud services
• Working with Google Cloud Platform services and cloud-hosted infrastructure
• Building internal dashboards, tools, and workflows
• Designing clear, accessible user journeys for patients, clinicians, and researchers
• Handling data upload, storage, retrieval, and review workflows
• Writing clean, maintainable, well-documented code
• Testing, debugging, and improving existing systems
• Contributing to technical documentation and product planning
• Working with connected devices, smartphone sensors, and physiological data capture workflows

This is not primarily a data science or machine learning role. An interest in data, signals, or healthcare technology is useful, but we are mainly looking for someone who wants to become a strong software engineer.

What we are looking for:

We are looking for someone who is curious, practical, and willing to take ownership. You do not need to know everything already. We care more about how you think, how you solve problems, and how quickly you can learn. You should be able to demonstrate some experience with at least several of the following:

• JavaScript or TypeScript
• React, React Native, Flutter, or another modern frontend/mobile framework
• Node.js or backend/API development
• HTML, CSS, responsive design, and accessible UI development
• Cloud platforms (e.g. GCP, AWS, Azure), ideally Google Cloud Platform
• Firebase, Firestore, Cloud Storage, or similar cloud services
• REST APIs and client-server architecture
• Git and modern software development workflows
• Testing, debugging, and documenting software
• Building personal, university, commercial, or open-source software projects

Experience with healthcare, medical devices, physiological data, or regulated software is a bonus, but not required.

What matters most:

We are especially interested in candidates who:

• Can turn an ambiguous product problem into a working software prototype
• Think about users, not just code
• Care about building reliable and understandable software
• Communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Can work independently without needing constant supervision
• Know when to ask good questions
• Are comfortable learning new tools and technologies quickly
• Take pride in documentation, testing, and maintainability
• Want their work to have a real-world impact

This role would suit someone who enjoys building things, learning fast, and being close to the product decisions behind the software.

What we offer:

• The opportunity to join a young, dynamic, interdisciplinary team of engineers, scientists, pharmaceutical specialists, and clinicians
• Hands-on experience building software for real clinical and research programmes
• Exposure to digital health, medical technology, cloud systems, product development, and regulated software
• Challenging technical problems where the solutions can directly impact patient quality of life
• The chance to contribute visibly from day one
• A 12-month role with the potential to become a permanent position

Diversity and inclusion:

We are building technology for everyone, and we believe the team that builds it should reflect that ambition. We actively welcome applications from all backgrounds, regardless of race, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, disability, or national origin. If you are uncertain whether you meet every criterion above, please apply anyway. The candidates we remember are rarely the ones who tick every box.

Job details:

• Duration: 12 months (flexible for placement)
• Start date: Flexible by arrangement
• Location: Cambridge, UK
• Role type: Graduate / placement opportunity, with potential permanent position available at the end