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Senior Back End Engineer - Do Health
London SE1 9HZ
2 weeks ago
🚀 StartupExplicitly discourages vibe coding; expects responsible use of AI tools.
About the Role
Senior Backend Engineer for Do Health to own and deliver major backend features, influence architecture, and improve reliability and scalability for a mobile-first preventative health app. The role requires strong TypeScript backend experience, autonomy, and experience scaling systems, based in London with a hybrid working pattern.
Job Description
Role
Do Health is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to join a small, autonomous core technical team and own major backend features end-to-end. You will collaborate with the lead engineer on architecture and technical direction and make product and technical decisions that impact reliability and scalability.
Key Responsibilities
- Own and deliver major backend features end-to-end.
- Collaborate with the lead engineer on architecture and technical direction.
- Make product and technical trade-offs and decisions.
- Improve reliability, observability, and foundational systems as the product scales.
Requirements
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience.
- Strong TypeScript proficiency.
- Experience scaling systems to high volumes of users.
- Comfortable operating with ambiguity and making judgement calls.
- Autonomous, capable of shipping high-quality work without hand-holding.
- Confident and responsible use of AI tools (explicitly not “vibe coding”).
Practical Details
- Location: London
- Working pattern: Hybrid, approximately 3 days per week in person