Onko Health is hiring a remote full-stack engineer for our cancer support platform, becoming technical lead for our all-new team.
We’re a healthtech scaleup company. Our app blends remote support and coaching from expert oncology practitioners with self-help approaches, backed by a data handling platform. We serve a number of UK healthcare providers and NHS trusts, delivering improved outcomes for patient health and care giving. We're preparing to bring development in-house, with a new engineering team to deliver upon our ambitious growth plans.
With guidance from our Head of Engineering you'll help define, design and build the evolution of our clinician-facing web application, the platform, and integration with our patient-facing mobile app, as well as influencing our culture and methods.
Because of the need to deliver scheduled features, fix bugs, and respond to the needs of newly onboarded customers, we’re looking for someone who is comfortable working with users, and offshore colleagues while we form a new team, and who still relishes lots of hands-on work.
We place equal emphasis on front and back-end, being particularly mindful of quality, resilience, and data security. Your personal coding focus may be oriented towards the back-end, or across whole stack, we can be flexible.
Once up to speed, your remit may include aspects such as
With HoE, co-owning the architecture and code base of our web application and back-end
Helping set the technical direction and writing clean, robust code to provide a secure, scalable and reliable platform
Exploring algorithmic methods in data science, for improved health and care outcomes
Working with our VHoE on roadmap, deliverables and hiring aims
Collaborating with our with our multidisciplinary team to take product features from concept to delivery, integrated with our mobile app
Keeping up to date with trends in software development, technology and healthtech
Upholding compliance, regulation, data and accessibility requirements
Mentoring junior staff, imparting best practices
Third line support, troubleshooting and root cause analysis
Establishing CI/CD pipelines, and shaping a DevOps approach
Evolving our development culture, methods and tooling
Automating tests and upholding quality
We're looking for
Someone with broad full-stack engineering abilities
Excellent technical understanding of software engineering and data security principles
Comfortable with architecting web applications - or ready to grow into this
Technology agnostic and adept with Node.js, plus familiarity with a modern JS framework (we're currently using Angular) and/or TypeScript
Optionally, a good understanding of front-end technologies such as HTML5 and CSS3
Skilled in API development
Appreciation for documentation, quality and best practice
Experience with Git/GitHub, and running CI/CD pipelines
Good technical familiarity with AWS Cloud services
Competent with SQL and MySQL/similar admin
A pragmatic application of Agile (both Scrum & Kanban) methodologies
You may also bring - or like to gain - skills or knowledge around any of
Influencing architecture, technology choice | mobile app development - e.g. Swift/Java/Kotlin, Firebase | secure coding practises, OWASP Top 10 | DevOps culture, pipeline automation | offshore collaboration, onshoring | mentoring engineers | Lean | algorithms and data science | establishing ETL pipelines and querying data warehouses
Salary and benefits
£70,000 - £90,000 - reviewed at six months - we're keeping an open mind
Share scheme for formative team members (once proven value to the business)
25 days holiday (plus bank holidays) and 5 days unpaid leave
Flexible working practices - tell us what you need - e.g. optional four day week
Personal development plan that you can shape, with budget for related training/certifications
About us
Founded in 2017 by a cancer care nurse and a cancer care surgeon, we're a team of engineers, designers, health coaches, and medical professionals, building the first digital health coaching service for people affected by cancer. It is clinically proven to lead to faster recovery, better quality of life and sustained health benefits. The work we do has a real impact on people’s lives, and we are on a journey to transform the lives of people affected by cancer. https://onkohealth.co.uk/
Location: fully remote, within the UK only. We'll get-together in person in London (Paddington), from time-to-time, monthly at most, and with good notice.
Please note, we can only consider candidates that hold an established right to work in the UK.
RECRUITERS: Onko Health has selected techfolk as its exclusive recruitment partner for this position and cold calling or speculative applications are not welcomed.
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Salary and compensation
$80,000 — $100,000/year
Benefits
🌎 Distributed team
🏖 Paid time off
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