At a Glance
- Tasks: Develop and scale software for clinical trials using Python and modern tech stacks.
- Company: Join Qureight, a mission-driven tech company transforming healthcare with AI.
- Benefits: Enjoy competitive pay, private medical insurance, and 25 days annual leave.
- Other info: Diverse team environment with excellent career growth opportunities.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in healthcare by advancing critical clinical research.
- Qualifications: Proficiency in Python, experience with REST APIs, and agile teamwork skills.
The predicted salary is between 63000 - 77000 £ per year.
About Us
Qureight’s mission is to accelerate clinical trials and ensure breakthroughs in lung and heart disease reach patients without delay.
Our AI-powered data and imaging curation platform enables the analysis of clinical imaging and other healthcare data, helping our customers bring treatments to market, faster.
We’re looking for talented people who want their work to matter.
With offices in Cambridge and London, you’ll join our multidisciplinary team of clinicians, scientists, and engineers.
What unites us is our open culture, continuous learning mindset, and a shared mission to help biopharma run faster, smarter trials.
About The Role
We are looking for a Software Engineer to support the scaling of our platform that clinical trials already depend on.
We build the vital infrastructure that orchestrates complex workflows across an ever-growing number of global sites and studies.
When hospital sites upload CT scans, our platform ensures the imaging securely reaches sponsors, independent reviewer panels, or our core machine learning analysis pipelines.
Built on a modern tech stack featuring a Python backend, REST APIs, and React frontends, all running on AWS EKS and deployed via Terraform, what we build matters every single day to advance critical clinical research and change lives.
What You Will Do
- Execute full software development life cycle (SDLC)
- Develop flowcharts, layouts, and documentation to identify requirements and solutions
- Write well-designed, testable code
- Produce specifications and determine operational feasibility
- Integrate software components into a fully functional software system
- Document and maintain software functionality
- Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade existing systems
- Deploy programs and evaluate user feedback
- Ensure software is updated with latest features
- Other activities as required to support company aims and priorities
- Proficiency in Python
- Experience with Django
- Experience building, documenting, and testing REST APIs
- Ability to produce maintainable, testable, documented, production-grade code
- Experience utilising CI/CD processes (Git Lab preferred)
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Experience of working in a team using agile methodologies
- Even better if you
- Are comfortable with Unix like operating systems
- Have experience using Terraform
- Have experience using Pydantic
- Have worked with AWS cloud services
- Have some experience with Javascript, Typescript and React
- Have familiarity with SQL and good schema design
- Have experience working with containerised environments (Docker/Kubernetes)
- Have experience working in a regulated environment
- A comprehensive benefits package that includes an annual bonus plan, private medical insurance, life insurance, and a contributory pension scheme
- 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays and enhanced maternity leave
- A diverse work environment that brings together experts in many fields, including software engineering, Dev Ops, data science, machine learning, quality assurance, regulatory affairs, and clinical operations.
The deadline for this role is 17.00 BST on Friday 4th September 2026.
If you have any queries, please contact careers@qureight. com
Everyone is welcome at Qureight.
We are an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from all suitably qualified candidates regardless of age, disability, ethnicity, sex, gender reassignment, religion or belief, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, or pregnancy and maternity.
Women and other underrepresented groups may be less likely to apply for a role unless they meet all or nearly all of the requirements.
If this applies to you, we still encourage you to apply – you may be a great fit, even if you don’t meet every qualification.
We’d love to hear from you.
If you require any adjustments to the application or selection process, please let us know. We will be happy to support you.
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