- Raydar
- London, Greater London
- Full-Time
- 10 days ago
- £120,000–£200,000 / year
Founding Software Engineer.
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Founding Software Engineer: our view in 3 lines...
- The Role:This role is for a software engineer building backend and data systems for a healthcare technology company.
- The Person:The person will build data pipelines, design and scale low-latency APIs, turn domain criteria into queryable logic, and own zero-to-one projects end to end.
- Requirements:The ideal candidate has between 2 and 6 years of professional backend or data engineering work, strong Python skills, experience running production systems at scale, and experience designing APIs and high-performance, low-latency services.
About the role
About the company
Our client is a healthcare technology company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Join a very small engineering group as an early hire, designing backend and data systems from scratch. You will take ownership of projects from start to finish, spotting opportunities on your own and delivering working solutions.
What you'll do
- Build data pipelines that process large volumes of lengthy documents and pull out structured information with language models.
- Design and scale low-latency APIs that handle very high request volumes.
- Translate complex domain criteria into queryable structures and formal logic for deterministic evaluation.
- Own zero-to-one projects end to end, finding high-impact gaps and addressing them without being asked.
- Try out new developer tooling and automation approaches within a small, highly autonomous team.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- Between 2 and 6 years of professional backend or data engineering work since graduating, excluding internships.
- Strong Python skills.
- Experience running production systems at scale.
- Experience designing APIs and building high-performance, low-latency services.
- A track record of taking products from nothing to launch.
- A degree in computer science, engineering or mathematics.
- Ability to work on-site five days a week.
- UK right to work or an existing visa that can be transferred.
Bonus points
- Hands-on exposure to systems-level programming languages.
- Background at a trading firm, large technology company, health-tech business or successful startup.
Benefits
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: GBP 120,000 to 200,000 per year
- Equity
Location and work model
- London, United Kingdom
- On-site, 5 days per week in office
- Full-time