[Hiring] Senior Backend Engineer @Isla

Role Description

We're looking for a Senior Node.js Engineer to work closely with our product & client facing teams, understand our customer challenges, and ship things quickly to test & learn. You will design, scope, build and deploy new features quickly for our users.

• Build the platform that will allow our clients to look after their patients, integrating new data sources to drive our DPP.
• Manage complex clinical data flows to ensure that data is where it needs to be, and then write updates back to 3rd party systems.
• Own services in production, including monitoring, debugging, and improving reliability over time.
• Collaborate with product and design to deliver user-focused solutions.
• Support and improve our cloud infrastructure.

Outcomes you’ll be responsible for:

• Deliver high-quality, maintainable backend systems that scale with growing usage.
• Take ownership of features/services and ensure they are reliable in production.
• Support and mentor other engineers through collaboration and code review.
• Champion technical excellence and continuous improvement by driving best practices in software development, DevOps, and cloud infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Professional experience as a Senior Developer.
• Ideally in a startup environment.
• Approximately 5+ years as a developer.
• Deep understanding of best practices when building Node.js applications with TypeScript.
• Experience integrating with a variety of APIs, e.g. REST & SOAP.
• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure, ideally Google Cloud Platform.
• Solid understanding of VPCs, subnets, private VPNs.
• Experience with CI/CD automation, such as GitHub actions.
• Proven experience with unit testing frameworks such as Jest.

Requirements

• Strong experience in GCP and backend design.
• Proactive Engineer who enjoys collaborating with all areas of the business and customers directly.
• Passionate about solving complex problems in a team of brilliant people.
• Empathy and enthusiasm to help the wider team progress through mentoring.
• Super curious and loves pushing the boundaries of agentic coding and scaling abilities.

Benefits

• Work from home - this is a remote first role.
• Flexible working times.
• Work abroad for up to 90 days per year.
• 25 days annual leave on top of Irish bank holidays, plus your birthday off and another significant day off of your choice.
• Quarterly meal on us - enjoy up to £75 to treat friends or family.
• Private medical insurance.
• Enhanced parental leave to support your family when it matters most.
• Quarterly team socials based in London.
• An annual learning budget to support your growth.
• Work with purpose - you'll be delivering social impact through improved patient healthcare.
• Join at an exciting stage - we're a well-funded, rapidly growing health tech company tackling a global challenge.
• Help shape the future of Isla - your ideas won't disappear into layers of management.