Senior Backend Engineer (Python Django)

Who we are

Our mission is to transform how healthcare organisations and their workforce work together. Our Connected Scheduling™ platform connects healthcare organisations and their workforce giving more autonomy and control to staff on how and when they work. Over 50% of UK GP practices use Lantum, we work with over 30% of UK hospitals too and we have not only saved millions in expensive staffing costs for the NHS, but we have countless stories of how we have improved the lives of clinicians who, for the first time, are able to plan their work lives around their personal lives.

What truly sets us apart is our culture and commitment to our mission. It is our incredible team that are the driving force behind our success and provide us with our competitive edge. We are a diverse group of people (20+ nationalities and 53% female workforce) who work hard to change an antiquated industry. We appreciate each others’ skills and differences, we are creative, focused and we are authentic to our true selves. Our team is supported to deliver their best work with clear career progression, a strong feedback culture and individual training budgets. We offer personal support too from health care subsidies including enhanced maternity and paternity leave and a Mental Health First Aider community.

We have a bright and modern office which you can work from throughout the week and 3 core office days per week (Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday) where the whole team comes together. We are also open to discussing a Remote Working option for this role.

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our Engineering team, where you will design and develop high impact features and implement improvements key in our company strategy growth. As part of a small experienced team, you will have the opportunity to share your experience through mentoring and supporting others, identifying challenges, highlighting risks and suggesting improvements.

You’ll enjoy here because

This is a highly collaborative environment where you can expect to work closely with product, design and engineering teams, to develop new features, integral in our mission to grow into the Primary Care Market.

We have a highly collaborative culture, with frequent pair programming and opportunities to experiment and get things wrong in a safe environment. You'll gain unparalleled exposure working in a cross-functional team with product and design as well as other engineers. We champion the personal development of our people and to that end everyone of our engineers has 2 hours on a weekly basis blocked out in their diaries where they can pursue their own independent learning.

What you'll be doing:

• Collaborate with Product Managers, Designers and other Engineers to design and develop high impact features and improvements to our product
• Regularly ship iterative solutions with minimal guidance and support from other team members
• Develop features and improvements in a secure, scalable, well-tested, and performant way
• Craft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices. You will maintain and advocate for these standards through code review
• You’ll help identify areas of improvements in the codebase and help contribute to making it better
• You’ll learn, collaborate with, and teach other Engineers. We believe everyone can contribute something new to the team regardless of how long they’ve been in the industry

Requirements

Requirements

• Experience building and maintaining scalable, performant, and secure applications.
• The ability to ensure quality (through testing or other measures) of the product and code shipped, efficiently, effectively and with a high cadence.
• Strong experience with Python and Django
• Experience with performance and optimisation problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems.
• Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organisational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions.
• The ability to identify key issues that inhibit a team’s effectiveness and the ability to deliver product improvements at pace.
• A predisposition to thrive in a start-up environment.

Our tech stack

Backend:

• Python - Django and Flask
• Microservices architecture
• REST and GraphQL APIs
• AWS - PostgreSQL (Aurora RDS), Redis (Elasticache), S3
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Prometheus and Grafana

Benefits

Benefits

💰Competitive Salary

🖥️Home office set up - £200 stipend towards home office equipment to support remote working

🏠Hybrid working - 3 days in the office a week.

🌈A vibrant and fun WeWork office space

💆‍♀️Health Cash Plan:

• Cash refunds for physio, dental, and other health related costs.
• An Employee Pricing Program that grants you access to special, non-public discounts to gyms and top retail brands
• Plus access to a 24/7 counselling and support helpline

🧓Pension - Lantum matches 4% of your salary into your pension pot!

🌴Holiday - 25 days holiday + 1 additional day of birthday leave

🧠Wellbeing Support - Access to Spill, a mental health support app

🌱£500 Learning and development budget each year to drive your own development