Senior Backend Product Engineer
£85k–£110k + Equity
Hybrid (London – 3 days/week onsite)
Mission-Driven
Our client, an ambitious and rapidly growing health tech company, is seeking a Senior Backend Product Engineer to join its team in London. You’ll be building high-quality, intuitive web applications that support the health and well-being of 100k's users.
This is an excellent opportunity for a Senior Backend Product Engineer looking to build something that contributes meaningfully to people's lives, in a fast-paced environment where your work has genuine real-world impact. This is a great opportunity for a backend engineer that has great product sense.
Requirements
* Familiar with user analytics, feature flagging and observability tools. You default to data to guide your decision-making.
* You work closely with PMs, designers, and analysts to make decisions and shape the product together.
* You care about clean code, good reviews, and helping others grow.
* You don’t just ship code, you own it
* You're just as comfortable in technical discussions as you are exploring user needs, product trade-offs, and impact.
* You can take a step back and thing about problems holistically. You challenge assumptions and know when its safe to take shortcuts.
What will you do?
* Lead the full lifecycle of features: from understanding the problem and sketching out rough ideas, to building it, shipping it, and measuring how it’s performing.
* Drive & shape the future of our architectural vision. Helping us scale, move fast and onboard quickly.
* Write clean, efficient code that’s built to last. Holding high standards for yourself and your peers.
Job requirements
* At least 5 years of commercial experience as a software engineer or equivalent
* Backend craft – Strong experience with a backend language, for example PHP, Python, Ruby or C#. Have worked with a range of database technologies and web frameworks etc.
* Comfortable across the stack – You’re not afraid of Javascript or to dive into cloud infra when needed.
* Great verbal and written communication skills and the ability to explain complex ideas in a simple way to non-engineering teammates
What’s on Offer
💸 Compensation & Perks
* Excellent salary: £85k–£110k DOE
* Generous equity options
* Private healthcare
* £400 learning & development budget
* Gym & wellness benefit
* Cycle to work & electric car schemes
🌱 Culture & Flexibility
* Hybrid model (3 days onsite at London Bridge HQ)
* Weekly team lunch
* 25 days holiday + enhanced parental leave
* Flexible working hours
* Annual company retreat
* Supportive and ambitious culture in one of the UK’s most exciting health & wellness scale-ups
If this sounds like your next adventure, I’d love to hear from you. I’ll get back to applications ASAP 😀