Senior Software Engineer - Application Engineering

About uMed

uMed is on a mission to reduce barriers to knowledge creation in healthcare. Our clinical research network connects patients, electronic health data, and research groups, spanning 400+ GP sites across the UK and growing internationally. We're a focused team of people who care deeply about making medical research faster and more accessible. If that mission resonates with you, we'd love to hear from you.

The Role

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Application Engineering team, a hands-on builder who takes real ownership of what they ship. You'll work end-to-end on features and initiatives, from design through to production, collaborating closely with our Data Engineering team who own the health data pipelines that power our platform.

This is a dynamic, broad-reaching role for someone who thrives with autonomy. You'll be expected to lead initiatives technically, scoping, designing, building, and iterating, in a team where every contribution matters.

What you'll be doing

• Building and improving features across the platform, with Python and Django at the core of our stack, while picking up other technologies as the platform and your work demands
• Writing well-structured, testable, production-ready code and holding yourself to a high standard of quality
• Collaborating with Data Engineering to understand platform capabilities and integrate effectively
• Working closely with Product and Design in scrum ceremonies, backlog refinement, and technical discussions, contributing your perspective, not just your code
• Participating in production support and incident management, debugging and resolving issues to keep our platform stable and performant
• Documenting what you build, clearly and consistently
• Helping define and evolve our backend engineering standards, staying current with the Python and Django ecosystem and bringing good ideas back to the team