Staff Software Engineer

Our mission 

All new medicines need to undergo clinical trials to show they’re safe and effective. But today’s clinical trial infrastructure is stuck in the past, and the cost of developing new medicines has skyrocketed as a result. Patients have to wait longer and pay more for new treatments. 

Our mission is to fix this; we use software to help innovative companies run faster, more reliable, and patient-friendly clinical trials. We’re still a young company, but we’ve already had a big impact. Since founding the company in March 2021 we’ve helped run over 100 clinical trials involving tens of thousands of patients, with a customer NPS of 100.

We recently raised a $55m Series B round from Balderton Capital, with support from Creandum, Firstminute, Seedcamp, and Visionaries. 

Lindus Health are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to build the platform powering the next generation of clinical trials. We want to add a very experienced engineer to our small product team to do hands-on product development, drive long-term architecture and evolve our engineering practices as we grow into a mature organisation.

This is an onsite role in London with a flexible (hybrid) office arrangement. After an initial onboarding period full-time at our headquarters (near London Bridge) we expect you to be in the office at least 3 days a week.

• You have at least 8+ years of experience as a software engineer. This includes at least 1 year in a role that could be characterised as “senior+” - a role where you acted as a tech lead for a project with multiple engineers or where you demonstrated impact across multiple teams or functions.

• You are comfortable working across a stack that includes frontend (TypeScript/React), backend (Python/Django/Postgres) and infrastructure (AWS). You don’t necessarily have hands-on experience with all pieces of our stack but want to go deep in at least one area and are happy to pick up technology that’s new to you.

• You are product-minded: you want to understand why we are building something to figure out the best how in collaboration with product managers, trial managers and users.

• You are an excellent listener and communicator who can build consensus, drive decisions and resolve conflicts. You write clearly and know when to deploy written artefacts to move teams and projects along.

• You like a startup environment where you have lots of autonomy and opportunities to grow your skills. You want to have a major impact on architecture and engineering practices as we grow from a small team (2 PMs, 2 designers, 7 engineers) to a large organisation (we are hiring for 3 additional engineers right now!).

• You have high agency and a bias for action

• You are passionate and curious about our mission; changing how the healthcare industry operates and how new health treatments are developed 

• You want to learn what life is like at a high-growth, mission-driven VC funded startup 

You belong here! If your experience and interests match with some of the above, we want you to apply.

• In your first month:

  • Learn about clinical trials and the problems we are trying to solve through our onboarding training and chats with people across the company

  • Collaborate with the product team on a starter project and make your first commits

  • Become familiar with the core components of our stack (React, TypeScript, Django, Python, Postgres, Amazon ECS)

• In your first 3 months

  • Become a part of the regular product development cycle: take ownership of a feature in Citrus, our trial delivery platform, seeing it through end-to-end from idea to deployment in collaboration with our PMs, designers and other engineers

  • Get close to users, observe the product being used in real trials and support the team in responding to feature requests and bug reports

  • Contribute actively to the team’s processes and rituals, such as product planning, retrospectives, release management and backlog grooming

• Within your first year:

  • Build relationships with senior peers in other functions (such as clinical operations and commercial) to strengthen alignment across the company

  • Gain a deep understanding of product and business needs, allowing you to support the CTO & VP Product in setting product direction

  • Take on technical leadership for a major product area

  • Facilitate long-term architecture and design decisions with the whole engineering team

  • Evolve engineering practices and work on making the team more productive in areas such as testing, CI, deployment pipelines, cloud infrastructure

  • Help grow the product & engineering team by interviewing candidates, onboarding new hires and mentoring other engineers

Embrace Simplicity We strive for simplicity in architecture, design and code, even though it sometimes means settling for a boring or less-than-perfect solution.

Collaborate Transparently We openly share our work and always encourage others to ask questions, even when it creates a certain amount of overhead and may invite too many perspectives.

Take Ownership End-to-End We trust engineers to own the delivery of features from idea to production, even when it means taking time away from coding to collaborate with users, product management and design.

Assume Collective Responsibility We treat every issue as a shared concern, even though you may have to fix things that you had no part in building or you have to accept changes to your work by others.

Have Fun! We inject fun and silliness into our day-to-day work, even though it may take some time out of our day to craft the perfect meme or play darts to settle a dispute.

• Make an impact across all areas of our business and fix one of the world’s most broken industries

• Competitive salary, plus meaningful stock options

• Flexible working; we have an incredible office near London Bridge and encourage people to work 3 days per week from the office.

• Unlimited holidays; everyone is encouraged to take off at least 28 days each year

• £60 monthly wellness allowance with complete flexibility on how to spend this including opting in to a company private health insurance scheme through AXA, a wellhub membership and more!

• Access to gym and retail discounts through our benefits platform Happl.

• Enhanced Parental Leave - 16 weeks full pay for primary care giver & 6 weeks full pay for secondary care giver

• Cycle to work and other salary sacrifice schemes

• Regular whole company and team events, both in person and virtually!

• £1,000 Learning and Development allowance each year to put towards courses, certifications and development

• A well stocked pantry and drinks fridge, Monday breakfast spread and catered team lunch on a Thursday for the UK office every week!

• Regular charity events and fundraising opportunities through our charity partnership with the Forward Trust.

• Initial conversation with Gina, Talent Partner (30 minutes)

• Functional Interview with 2 our Engineers (60 minutes)

• Culture and values interview with one of our Co-Founders, Meri or Michael and another team member (30 minutes)  

We try to arrange for at-least one interview to be in-person so you can see our office and meet more of the team.