Software Engineer (Full-Stack - Python/TypeScript) in London

Our Future Health is an ambitious collaboration between the public, charity and private sectors, designed to help people live healthier lives for longer through better prevention, earlier detection and improved treatment of diseases. We will speed up the discovery of new methods of early disease detection, and the evaluation of new diagnostic tools, to help identify and treat diseases early, when outcomes are usually better. With over 2.5M volunteers across the UK, we’re now the world’s biggest health research programme of its kind, and our volunteer group is also more diverse than other, similar health research programmes. Technology and data are central to our mission. Our systems power web sites, clinics across the UK, secure analytics and research systems, pipelines that process highly sensitive health and genetic data, and we are continuing to grow our engineering capability to support this ambition.

We are looking for a Full-Stack focused Software Engineer to join our cross-functional Participant Engagement squad. You'll be helping participants stay connected to Our Future Health, giving them clear, meaningful reasons to return to the platform, understand the impact of their involvement, and feel confident taking part in future research. Our tech-stack includes Python, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Terraform (IaC), running in Azure (Kubernetes and Azure AppService). Our engineers are full-stack, handling frontend, backend and infrastructure in a total ownership model - squads build and run it. Experimentation will be a key part of the role, so we’re looking for someone who brings initiative, is comfortable exploring ideas, and can help us validate what resonates before we invest in longer-term solutions.

The role combines practical engineering with opportunities to influence how engagement evolves, helping us deliver quick wins today while laying the groundwork for long-term impact on participant trust, confidence, and research readiness.

In this role, you will:

• Work in a small, growing team where you’ll contribute both to early design and hands-on delivery.
• Help shape and build the experiences that deepen participant understanding and motivation, making thoughtful decisions about what to develop, when to reuse, and how to optimise the journeys people already see.
• Design and implement systems that encourage people to return, explore insights, share additional data, and take part in studies.
• As the work is still in its early stages, you’ll often move across the stack, from front-end features built with TypeScript and modern frameworks to backend and data-driven work in Python, depending on what the problem calls for.
• Learn from real behaviour and iterate quickly based on what works.

This role will be fully hybrid with the expectation we get together in our Holborn, London office at least once per month.

Requirements

We welcome applications from all who may not feel they match the full criteria, so if you have most of the below, we’d like to hear from you:

Technical Skills

• Experience building cloud-hosted consumer applications using open source technologies such as Python or Node.
• Knowledge of modern frontend development, including JavaScript/TypeScript with frameworks like React or Next.js, and experience building intuitive, user-focused interfaces.
• Experience working on backend systems – ideally using Python – for data movement, processing, and storage.
• Experience working on consumer-facing products where experimentation, rapid iteration, and learning from user behaviour are important.
• Prior experience with Azure (ideally), AWS or GCP.
• Knowledge of how to work with Infrastructure as Code, ideally Terraform.
• Knowledge of good data modelling and design patterns; knowledge of relational databases (e.g. PostgreSQL) and familiarity with other types of data store (blob, document, graph).
• Good experience with modern, agile development practices like code review, TDD, CI/CD and pairing using tools like Git and GitHub.
• Experience of operationally managing software components once live, including observability, logging, metrics, error reporting, debugging and live incident management.
• Experience of working with sensitive personal data.

Competencies

• Experience working in cross-functional teams consisting of e.g. engineers, product, UX and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to communicate with stakeholders and audiences outside your own team.
• Experience working in small, growing organisations with a high degree of ambiguity, where flexibility is valued.
• Understanding of software quality principles and practices.
• Comfortable sharing knowledge and helping others.
• Comfortable taking part in technical discussions.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary from £60,000.
• Generous Pension Scheme – We invest in your future with employer contributions of up to 12%.
• 30 Days Holiday pro rata + Bank Holidays – Enjoy a generous holiday allowance with the flexibility to take bank holidays when it suits you.
• Enhanced Parental Leave – Supporting you during life’s biggest moments.
• Cycle to Work Scheme – Save 25-39% on a new bike and accessories through salary sacrifice.
• Home & Tech Savings – Get up to 8% off on IKEA and Currys products, spreading the cost over 12 months through salary sacrifice.
• EV Scheme – Save up to 40% on a brand new electric vehicle all-inclusive package through salary sacrifice.
• £1,000 Employee Referral Bonus – Know someone amazing? Get rewarded for bringing them on board!
• Wellbeing Support – Access to Mental Health First Aiders, plus 24/7 online GP services and an Employee Assistance Programme for you and your family.
• A Great Place to Work – We have a lovely Central London office in Holborn, and offer flexible and remote working arrangements.

Join us - let’s prevent disease together.

We recommend you apply as soon as possible as occasionally due to high volumes of applications, we need to close our postings early. At Our Future Health, we recognise the importance of having a diverse workforce and ensuring that all candidates, regardless of their background, have equitable access to our application process. We proactively encourage applicants who identify as having a disability, neurodiversity, or long-term health conditions to let us know if they require any reasonable adjustments as part of their application process.