Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer | HealthTech | London (Hybrid)

An exciting HealthTech company supporting 600+ GP practices and 7m patients is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Python) to join their growing engineering team. Their software helps clinical teams identify at risk patients earlier and manage them more efficiently, used in real practices, every day

The Role

You'll join a cross-functional squad, initially reporting into a Squad Lead, shipping features that directly improve how primary care is delivered. This is a senior IC role for now, but the team is growing quickly and the expectation is clear: the right person will move into a leadership position as that happens. If you want a defined path to lead without waiting years for someone to move on, this is worth a look.

What You'll Do

• Own delivery end-to-end: technical planning, execution, and shipping reliable software
• Work closely with Product and Design as genuine partners
• Champion code quality, testing, and pragmatic trade-offs between speed and debt
• Mentor teammates and help shape engineering culture as the team scales

What They're Looking For

• Proven experience in a senior engineering role with some leadership exposure
• 5+ years experience with Python is essential
• Hands-on technical skills across, TypeScript, React, AWS, and DevOps
• Pragmatic approach to balancing speed, quality, and technical debt
• Ownership mindset, comfortable with ambiguity and end-to-end responsibility
• Strong communicator who can simplify complexity
• Healthcare or B2B SaaS experience
• Early stage experience would be highly desirable