Senior Software Engineer

Company: HireQ Talent
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🚀 Senior Software Engineer

Remote Anywhere in the UK | Up to £110,000 + Exceptional Benefits Package

HireQ Talent is partnering with an innovative HealthTech organisation. Now, as they continue expanding across Europe and North America, they’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help shape the next generation of their platform.

If you’re passionate about building scalable applications, influencing technical direction, and using technology to solve real-world healthcare challenges, this could be your perfect next move.

Why You’ll Love This Opportunity

✅ Build products that genuinely improve lives

✅ Fully remote working across the UK

✅ Join a high-growth, mission-driven technology company

✅ Influence architecture, technology decisions, and product direction

✅ Work alongside talented Engineers, Product Specialists, QA and DevOps teams

✅ Modern cloud-native technology stack

✅ Fantastic long-term career progression opportunities

✅ Salary up to £110,000

The Opportunity

As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll play a key role in designing, developing, and scaling a market-leading platform used by organisations worldwide.

You’ll work across backend services, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and selected front-end functionality, helping deliver highly secure, scalable, and reliable solutions that support healthcare innovation on a global scale.

This is a hands-on engineering role with significant influence and ownership, offering the opportunity to contribute to both product evolution and long-term technical strategy.

🛠️ What You’ll Be Doing

🚀 Software Engineering

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

️ Architecture & Technical Strategy

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

🤝 Collaboration & Leadership

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

What We’re Looking For

Core Experience

✔ 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

Technical Skills

Ideally You’ll Have Experience With:

☁️ 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

⭐ Bonus Points If You Have

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

What’s In It For You?

Up to £110,000 salary

Fully remote working anywhere within the UK

🚀 Significant influence over platform architecture and engineering decisions

Ongoing learning, development and career progression

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

Ready To Build Technology That Matters?

This is an outstanding opportunity for a Senior Software Engineer who wants to combine technical excellence with genuine real-world impact.

If you’re excited by modern cloud technologies, scalable software architecture, and the opportunity to help accelerate medical innovation worldwide, we’d love to hear from you.

🚀 Apply today!

Posted: September 1st, 2026