Full-Stack Software Engineer

POSITION: Permanent, Full Time (30 to 37.5 Hours Per Week)

LOCATION: Remote but must be based in the UK or Europe 

SALARY: £60,000 to £70,000 per year 

United by our vision. Leading with empathy. Pioneers in curiosity.

Healios exists to bring exceptional healthcare to anyone, anytime, anywhere.  By digitising entire clinical pathways, we enable children, adults and their family members to receive and seamlessly transition between clinical services from the comfort of their home. 

Innovation is at the heart of what we do as we strive to be the leading provider of neurodevelopmental and associated mental health services.  You can find out more about us by clicking here!

Healios is all about helping families feel better and that includes our own families too, which is why we embrace diversity in all its forms and offer unparalleled flexibility for our employees. For more information on what it’s like to be a Healios employee, and our hiring processes, take a look at our Notion page. 

“Great minds don’t think alike” 

From our talented tech teams to our standout clinical expertise, we are bringing great minds together to build more accessible services. Our software supports clinicians, young people and families through some of the most important moments of their lives, so it needs to be reliable, secure and built with care.

Our values

Our values shape how we build, collaborate and care for everyone we support. We look for people whose own values align with them:

• Do the right thing
• Act with integrity
• Be a great listener
• Deliver your best work
• Be truly courageous

About the role

As a Software Engineer at Healios, you’ll build meaningful, well-crafted software that improves access to mental health and neurodevelopmental care. We work in a focused, remote environment that values small, collaborative teams, clear ownership and the space to do your best work without unnecessary meetings or noise.

Your work will contribute to one of our three strategic areas: improving the experience of the clinicians who use our platform, making client operations sustainable as we grow, or giving our partners the confidence to expand their work with us.

You’re a full-stack generalist who is growing into ownership. You like to take features end-to-end, you’re comfortable with ambiguity and finding your own answers, and you keep your team informed without being chased. You would rather ship something useful and improve it than wait for the perfect approach. You’ll work closely with engineers, analysts and tech associates to shape, build and ship features that are simple, scalable and useful.

Specialisms

Some engineers hold a specialism based on team needs, usually around 20% of their time. It is a chance to grow domain knowledge and take on a key responsibility. Options include infrastructure (shared tooling, environments and deployment), data insights, front-end and the design system, or engineering response.

Our stack

We build primarily in Ruby on Rails, but we hire for the engineer rather than the framework. Strong full-stack fundamentals matter more to us than years on any one tool.

• The app: Ruby on Rails modular monolith, ViewComponents, Turbo
• Testing: RSpec
• Database: PostgreSQL
• Hosting and infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes, Docker
• Background jobs: Sidekiq
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions
• Monitoring: Grafana, Sentry

If you don’t meet every point below, please apply anyway. We are more interested in how you think and learn than in a perfect checklist, and we would be glad to consider your application.

Need to have

• Around 3+ years, or equivalent demonstrable experience, building and maintaining web applications with Ruby on Rails or a similar full-stack framework
• Confidence taking features end-to-end, from shaping through to production and beyond
• Comfort with ambiguity, and a habit of seeking out your own answers while holding opinions loosely
• Strong, thoughtful written communication and a preference for working asynchronously in a remote team
• A solid grasp of testing, modular and maintainable design, and basic web security
• A product mindset and a preference for simple, durable solutions over short-term cleverness
• A commitment to safeguarding and high ethical standards

Desirable

• Experience with our stack, especially Ruby on Rails, Hotwire, Turbo and ViewComponents
• DevOps-adjacent experience across AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD (GitHub Actions) and observability (Grafana, Sentry)
• Interest in holding a specialism (infrastructure, data insights, front-end and design system, or engineering response)
• Curiosity about AI as a tool for better work, including prototyping, exploration and raising quality, not only speed
• Experience in healthcare, mental health or other regulated environments, though this is not required

What you’ll do

• Deliver features end-to-end, with clarity and appropriate test coverage
• Take responsibility for small features or technical slices, managing your time and raising ambiguity early
• Write maintainable, well-documented code, and refactor with care
• Contribute to shaping work, offering input on feasibility, scope and approach before a line is written
• Collaborate across disciplines, anticipating how your work connects to the wider system
• Share knowledge through reviews, pairing and writing, helping the people around you grow
• Support security, reliability and clinical-safety good practice, working with InfoSec and the Clinical Safety Officer where needed

A note on your application

We use AI at Healios and we’re glad you might too. But please apply as you: we read every application, and a personal one, written in your own words and about your own experience, will stand out more than something clearly generated against this advert. Tell us who you are and why Healios, because that is what we are looking for.

How to apply

Apply through the link on this page with your CV and a short note about why this role and Healios appeal to you. A formal cover letter is not needed.

What to expect: an initial conversation with someone from the team, a practical stage that reflects the kind of work you would actually do rather than abstract puzzles, and a final conversation with the people you would be working alongside. We aim to keep this to 2 stages over around 2 weeks, and we will let you know where you stand at each step. A real person reads every application.

What’s in it for you 

• 33 days holiday (including Bank Holidays)
• Paid Christmas closure (between Christmas and New Year)
• Birthday Leave - paid day off on your birthday
• "Life Leave" - 2 days of extra leave to take when things you can't plan for happen
• Enhanced family friendly policies including a phased return to work and receive full pay
• Paid company sick pay scheme
• Contributory Pension Scheme (6% matched)
• Employee Discount to access a private assessment (for ADHD, Autism or a combined assessment) through our Melios service for your child
• Fully personalised flexible benefits package including; Health Cash Plan, Life Assurance, EAP Service, Will Writing, Critical Illness Cover, employee discount and savings portal, Cycle to Work Scheme, Tech Scheme and Wine Club!
• Work from anywhere policy
• Access to NHS and Perks at Work discounts, including the Blue Light Card
• Free access to co-working spaces
• CPD/Growth day per year, plus personal development allowance to invest in your growth
• Bespoke Healios Training and on demand learning including schedule of monthly CPD for clinicians

ACCOMMODATIONS

We’re glad to accommodate candidates who need adjustments throughout the hiring process and we're always learning about different accessibility needs to ensure our hiring process is accessible for all candidates. We encourage you to be open about the adjustments you need so we can adapt our interview process. You can read more about Healios being an Inclusive Employer on our Notion page

Healios is a Disability Confident Committed Employer and we are committed to inclusivity and equality for people with different needs in the workplace.