Python Developer | AI x Healthcare Data
£65k to £90k base + ~1% equity + benefits
Hybrid in London. At least 3 days on site
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The mission:
Build an AI indexed knowledge graph of doctors and a search layer that helps teams plan go to market with data, not guesswork. Own backend services that power search, data flows, and product features.
What you will do
* Build Python services and APIs that ship to production
* Operate and tune Elasticsearch for relevance, indexing, and pagination
* Design schemas and pipelines across Postgres and MongoDB
* Run CI and CD, improve build times, handle deployments and rollbacks
* Collaborate with data and ML to productionise models
* Instrument for observability and own incidents end to end
What you will bring
* 1+ year engineering with strong Python in production
* Hands on Elasticsearch experience
* Solid SQL plus practical MongoDB
* CI and CD experience, version control best practice
* Comfortable with Azure or Google Cloud
* Product mindset, clear communication, UK work rights, 3 days on site
Why this is worth your time
* High ownership on core systems with visible user impact
* Early equity with room to grow
* Fast cycles, pragmatic engineering, zero theatrics
* Senior peers and in person collaboration
The process
Screening chat, technical screen, on site super day covering coding, system design, and execution. References, then offer. Adjustments available.
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We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and provide reasonable adjustment