Full Stack Engineer in Glasgow

Location: Glasgow / Hybrid - please note, you need to be located within 30 miles from central Glasgow.

Our client is an established, profitable, market-leader, supplying into 70% of NHS Trusts with the business growing quickly in the UK, USA and Australia. They envisage, design and deliver innovative products, which dramatically improve peoples’ lives in challenging environments such as schools, hospitals and mental health facilities.

This role sits within a new, ground-breaking tech-led initiative aimed at redefining the standards of care delivery in mental health environments. By leveraging radar technology as a non-visual patient safety aid, this innovative System as a Service (SaaS) platform seeks to address critical challenges in patient safety, clinical efficiency, and operational scalability.

Role Summary

They are at an exciting stage in our growth journey and looking to make the most of their market presence. They are looking for a versatile Full Stack Software Engineer to join their team in Glasgow to help accelerate them along this journey. You will be a key member of a multidisciplinary team, and you will be responsible for the design and development of various software systems. You will be capable of developing embedded software on IoT devices, handset applications (Android, IOS), web applications and/or cloud services with a handful or ML/AI thrown in. We will be taking a proof of concept and scaling and productionising the system; hence, the development will be entirely greenfield, so you can shape the product design. The product portfolio is critical to life and to improve the quality of care in the mental health sector; therefore, an understanding of developing software within a highly regulated environment.

Key responsibilities

• Working closely with a cross functional team of engineers, to develop industry leading products. This includes high level product design input.
• Lead the design and development to various software components within the product portfolio - cloud, mobile, embedded or AI.
• Developing high-quality, well-documented, tested code, and contributing to development reviews to maintain standards and release processes across the team.
• Evaluation and recommendation of development tools and processes.
• Take ownership of software development processes to allow for a lean efficient process that provides a high level of quality within a regulated industry.
• Proactively seeking improvements to the current system leading to roadmap improvements.
• Working with onshore and offshore developers to implement a state-of-the-art software system.
• Testing and documenting development work to a high standard, while maintaining an audit trail and revision history of the work.
• Conducting peer reviews of new code releases.
• Support engineering teams during the deployment and commissioning of IoT systems, ensuring smooth integration and configuration.
• Diagnose and resolve issues encountered in real-world environments, providing hands-on troubleshooting and technical guidance.

What you’ll bring

They look for people who will add to the organisation and align with their Purpose and Values. Your experience, skills and competences will include:

• Versatility - a passion for working across boundaries to deliver award-winning products that make a meaningful difference in the world.
• A degree in an engineering, mechatronics or data science discipline is preferred (or equivalent experience).
• A minimum of 5 years industry experience is preferred, including practical experience of developing highly complex software systems combining IoT, Mobile Application and Cloud Applications.
• You are a polyglot software engineer, you don’t care about language, you just get things done using the right tools as and when required.
• Demonstrated knowledge of Golang, Python, Node, Dart, Angular, React, Vue.
• Demonstrated knowledge of Azure, GCP or AWS. Ideally more than one.
• Knowledge of multiple database types. You know when to use a time series database rather than a document database. You know why to use a table database rather than SQL.
• Knowledge of working on either front-end or back-end problems. Expert in one.
• Knowledge of creating quality software and integrating quality control into CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of IoT protocols (MQTT).

What they offer

• Discretionary profit share.
• Annual leave increases with length of service.
• Cycle to Work.
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• Peer recognition programme.
• Discounted gift cards.
• The opportunity to develop and grow your career within a fast-growing SME.

This is a full-time role and travelling to customer sites may be required. Please note that they’ve detailed the key responsibilities and output required from the role. As we’re a dynamic and fast-moving organisation, this is not a definitive summary, and responsibilities may well change and evolve over time.

They’re more about team than title. They welcome applications from all sections of the community and people from all backgrounds. They’re committed to building an inclusive workplace that promotes and values differences, where everyone from any background can do their best work.