This role is focused on leading the back-end development of APIs and services that power Little Journey’s innovative and growing healthcare and life science products. As we complete a ground-up rebuild of our legacy back-end applications, this role will be the founding member of our B/E engineering team.

This position is remote in the UK, with a hybrid option in Leeds.

The role

Joining our team of F/E and F/S Typescript engineers, you will be the B/E specialist and a lead engineer, designing, building and maintaining Little Journey’s back-end applications, APIs and services. You will make critical decisions on how we design and implement our products and engineer them for performance, scale and modularity. Embedded in one of our product squads, you will have a remit that cuts across all Little Journey’s software products, leading our back-end tribe and working closely with F/E leads to meet product challenges holistically.

You will champion pragmatic, standards driven engineering practises: supporting, mentoring and empowering F/E and F/S colleagues to implement complete features.

You will have a significant impact on the whole product lifecycle, guiding technical planning and decision making, implementing back-end features, designing, provisioning and maintaining infrastructure and supporting effective CI/CD pipelines and processes.

Our Tech Stack

• Full-stack Typescript
• Terraform
• PostgreSQL
• NodeJS, NestJS, Prisma, Zenstack
• React, NextJS, Shadcn
• Capacitor
• Google Cloud Platform – Cloud Run, Cloud Tasks, Cloud SQL Postgres, Firebase Authentication
• Vercel
• Sanity CMS
• Bugsnag
• Docker, Github Actions

Measuring success

Immediately

• Take the lead on development of our core back-end applications and services
• Achieve a strong understanding of our product and technical roadmaps, challenging and improving these where necessary
• Deliver high-priority features from your home squad’s backlog
• Understand the team’s current capacity and capability to deliver high-quality, scalable back-end applications and services, identifying and making opportunities to increase these
• Establish effective ways of working with F/E leads to collaborate on an impactful, holistic engineering strategy
• Develop and maintain infrastructure and CI/CD tooling

6 months:

• Support engineering managers to increase our B/E and F/S engineering capacity
• Support the migration of customers from our legacy applications to our new stack
• Increase observability and data-driven decision-making capability to support our data strategy
• Find a focus on implementing core back-end features and services through increasing the capacity for F/S development in the wider team
• Champion quality engineering in our B/E applications and services

12 months:

• Support scaling our back-end capability through mentoring and management of junior B/E and F/S colleagues

Company Benefits

• 28 days annual leave pro-rata (plus public holidays
• 6% pension match
• £500 annual training budget
• £200 home working budget
• £50 wellness budget
• Choice between Mac and Windows laptop
• Enhanced parental & family leave policies
• UK remote options, or hybrid work in our Leeds office
• Flexible working within core hours
• Friendly and collaborative team who value and respect each other

Interview Process

1. Screening call
2. Competency interview with Hiring Manager
3. Technical task
4. Panel with the team