Lead Engineer (Digital Product)
Permanent
Location: Manchester (hybrid 3 days onsite per week)
Salary: up to £80,000
Industry: Healthcare
About the Client
This well-established healthcare provider combines retail pharmacy services with significant pharmaceutical wholesale operations across the UK and Ireland. With a network of hundreds of pharmacy locations and multiple distribution centres, they support millions of patients each year via community services and wholesale supply. Operating within a much larger multinational group, they prioritise clinical excellence, transparency, and long-term partnerships to deliver high-quality care and medicines at scale.
How youll spend your day
As Lead Engineer (Digital Product), reporting to the Head of Product, you will;
1. Provide hands-on engineering (initially 50/50 split with architectural oversight), shifting to more hands-on as systems stabilise.
2. Oversee and support multiple engineers across projects, offering both technical guidance and mentorship.
3. Tackle meaningful challenges including technical debt, performance bottlenecks, and architectural improvements.
4. Work with a mode...