Vital
Senior Backend Engineer
Vital
£104k - £115k
UK (Remote)
Python
FastAPI
GCP

Senior Backend Engineer

Overview

Healthcare is in a crisis, help us fix this for the humans behind the results. With more and more data being collected from wearables, lab tests and patient-doctor conversations, we’re entering an era where data is abundant. We need people like you who are passionate about how technology can supercharge healthcare. Vital helps leading digital health and wellness companies connect to wearable and lab data, through a single universal API. We’ve got some of the greatest hearts and minds from Babylon Health, Ro Health, SpaceX, and Monzo - working to solve one of the biggest challenges of our time: making personalized, proactive, and affordable healthcare a reality. Backed by Point Nine, 20VC, YC, and leading angels, we’re connecting millions already.

Job Description

Vital is a company that helps leading digital health and wellness companies connect to wearable and lab data, through a single universal API. They are working to solve one of the biggest challenges of our time: making personalized, proactive, and affordable healthcare a reality.

Responsibilities

  • - Tackling ambitious problems: you’ll be breaking down technical challenges that haven’t been done before in healthcare, we need you to be extremely product minded with every line of code you write
  • - Building and shipping new products for Lab Testing: our product usage is growing exponentially as a result of our talented hardworking team. We now get to build loads more game-changing products across the lab testing space
  • - Continuously thinking about the end patient experience: We need you to be in the details on a specific build at the same time as zooming out looking at our entire product. This is the only way we will reach our mission together

Required Skills

  • - Early stage companies is your thing - ambiguity, variety and speed
  • - You have around 5-8 years experience in a backend role - Python is our main language but it's not a requirement to be fluent in it
  • - You want to be hands-on focusing on writing code and shipping products that touch the lives of millions of people
  • - Experience building an API product and have strong opinions with what makes a good API for a developer
  • - You are comfortable with owning features and being the driving force behind them

Benefits

  • - Regular in person offsites, previously in Lisbon, Kent UK and Tenerife
  • - Bi-weekly team happy hours & events remotely
  • - Learning budget of $300 for personal development/productivity
  • - Flexible, remote-first working - including $1K for home office equipment
  • - 25 days off a year + national holidays
  • - Generous early stage options (extended exercise post 2 years employment)
  • - Healthcare cover depending on location
  • - New MacBook

About the company

Vital helps leading digital health & wellness companies connect to wearables and labs, through a single universal API.