Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. HireQ Talent is partnering with an innovative HealthTech organization expanding across Europe and North America. The Senior Software Engineer will design, develop, and scale secure, reliable platform solutions across backend services, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and selected front-end functionality while contributing to architecture, technical strategy, and engineering excellence.
Responsibilities
- Designing and developing scalable backend services and APIs
- Building, enhancing and maintaining cloud-native applications
- Delivering features from concept through to deployment and optimisation
- Developing secure, high-performance software solutions
- Integrating third-party platforms and external services
- Supporting both backend and front-end development initiatives where required
- Contributing to platform architecture and technical roadmaps
- Driving engineering best practices and coding standards
- Improving application scalability, performance and reliability
- Identifying opportunities to simplify systems and reduce technical complexity
- Supporting key architectural and technology decisions
- Working closely with Product, QA, Engineering and DevOps teams
- Participating in code reviews and technical discussions
- Mentoring and supporting fellow engineers
- Championing a culture of quality, innovation and continuous improvement
- Producing clear technical documentation and API specifications
Skills
- ✔ Strong experience developing production-grade APIs
- ✔ Commercial experience building applications using Python
- ✔ Strong expertise with FastAPI
- ✔ Advanced knowledge of PostgreSQL
- ✔ Experience integrating external APIs and third-party services
- ✔ Strong understanding of automated testing practices
- ✔ Experience working with Docker and containerised deployments
- ✔ Proven success within Agile software engineering environments
- ✔ Experience delivering scalable, customer-facing software products
- ☁️ Microsoft Azure
- ⚙️ CI/CD pipelines and DevOps best practices
- 🔒 Secure software development, authentication and authorisation
- 📊 Monitoring, observability and performance optimisation
- 🏗️ Distributed systems and modern application architecture
- 📘 OpenAPI and API-first development
- 🗄️ Database design, schema management and migrations
- 🐍 FastAPI, Pydantic, SQLAlchemy and Alembic
- 🎨 Commercial front-end development experience with React.js
- OR⚡ Commercial backend development experience with C# / .NET
- 🏥 Experience within Healthcare, MedTech, HealthTech, Life Sciences or other regulated environments
- 📈 Experience working within fast-growing SaaS or product-led technology organisations
- 🌍 Experience scaling cloud-native applications supporting international users
Benefits
- Exceptional Benefits Package
- Fully remote working across the US
- Fantastic long-term career progression opportunities
- Ongoing learning, development and career progression
- Significant influence over platform architecture and engineering decisions
- Opportunity to work on technology making a real difference to healthcare outcomes
- Challenging technical problems within a modern engineering environment
- Collaborative, supportive and highly capable engineering team
- Opportunity to grow with a rapidly expanding global business
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