# Senior Software Engineer - Application Engineering > uMed · United Kingdom (Remote) · Full-time · Posted 2026-05-28 **Workplace:** remote **Department:** Technology ## Description ### 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 ## Requirements ### What we're looking for **Essential:** - Strong Python and Django skills (or comparable Python web framework experience) - Solid grasp of REST API design and SQL database modelling - Comfort with relational databases and a good instinct for data modelling - Solid experience with AWS, including containers and serverless technologies - Working knowledge of message queuing and stream processing - Experience with observability and CI/CD tooling such as Sentry, Datadog, or CircleCI - A track record of delivering well-designed backend features end-to-end, independently - Degree in computing or equivalent experience - we care more about what you've built than where you studied **Nice to have:** - Experience with React and JavaScript/TypeScript - Experience working with or alongside data engineering workflows, including tools like Airflow - Experience with clinical or healthcare systems **Who you are:** - A self-starter who doesn't wait to be told what to do next - Genuinely care about code quality, reusability, maintainability, and scalability - Excited by working in a small team where you wear several hats - Someone who empathises with users and keeps their needs at the centre of every technical decision - Motivated by the idea that the software you create could directly improve patient outcomes ## Benefits - Private Health Insurance to keep you covered - Pension Plan to help you secure your future - Plenty of Paid Time Off for your well-deserved breaks - Work From Home equipment budget for a comfortable working space - Flexible Benefits platform tailored to your needs - Enjoy your Birthday Day Off on us! - Eye-test vouchers for Specsavers to look after your eyesight - Coworking policy – catch up with the team as regularly as once a week ## Apply [Apply at uMed](https://apply.workable.com/umed/j/37C2F94BD1/apply) --- Powered by [Workable](https://www.workable.com)