Staff Product Engineer (Backend)

How you'll be contributing to Accurx as a Staff Product Engineer (Backend)...

At Accurx, we’re on a mission to transform how healthcare teams and patients communicate, and we’re well on our way—98% of NHS GP practices in England already rely on our software. As we continue to expand across the entire care continuum, our goal is to connect every single patient and clinician in the UK.

We’re looking for a Staff Product Engineer (Backend) to help shape the future of our product and platform across a broader scope than ever before. At the Staff level, you’ll operate across an entire product group of 15-20 engineers, defining and driving architectural vision, technical strategy, and engineering standards. You’ll be trusted to influence and align multiple teams, ensuring our platform remains scalable, reliable, and innovative as we continue to grow.

Today, we primarily work with C# (.NET Core), Kubernetes, SQL, React, ES6, TypeScript, and Redux, but we’re always evolving. You’ll bring the expertise to help us navigate the next generation of tools, frameworks, and architectures that keep us at the forefront of healthcare tech. As we scale, you’ll be a key engineering leader, guiding our product group toward the best solutions—both today and for the future.

Your day to day tasks, should you choose to accept this mission 🤝...

• Drive Architectural Excellence: You’ll set the technical direction for an entire product group, collaborating with engineers, product managers, and designers to define our long-term architectural vision. Your deep understanding of distributed systems, APIs, data modelling, and cloud services will shape how we build, integrate, and evolve our platform.
• Champion the “Product Engineer” Mindset at Scale: You’ll ensure that product thinking is embedded throughout the engineering process—making sure we build the right features for our users, and that we build them in a way that’s maintainable, robust, and aligned with our strategic objectives. You’ll inspire teams to stay close to our users, whether that’s joining user research sessions or partnering with clinicians and patients to understand their needs.
• Influence Multiple Teams: Operating at a group level means you’ll work across numerous squads, identifying systemic technical challenges and opportunities. You’ll design initiatives that improve engineering practices, reduce friction, and accelerate our delivery of value. By seeing the bigger picture, you’ll ensure that investments in tooling, infrastructure, and architecture pay dividends across the entire product area.
• Be a Force Multiplier for Engineering Quality: You’ll raise the bar for engineering excellence. Through code reviews, architecture discussions, and the introduction of best practices, you’ll help teams ship high-quality code at pace. You’ll identify gaps in our engineering capabilities—whether that’s performance bottlenecks, security vulnerabilities, or testing strategies—and work with stakeholders to address them systematically.
• Mentor and Grow Our Talent: You’ll model exceptional technical leadership and mentor senior and junior engineers alike. By coaching others on system design, debugging complex issues, and navigating trade-offs, you’ll elevate the skill and confidence of those around you. You’ll also partner with engineering managers and product leaders to cultivate a healthy, high-performing engineering culture within the group.
• Build for Continuous Improvement: You’ll encourage teams to stay curious, experiment, and iterate. Whether it’s introducing new tooling to boost productivity, refining our CI/CD pipelines, or guiding a team through a tricky production incident, you’ll help shape a culture where learning and improvement never stop.

What the team say ...

"Working as an Senior Backend Engineer at Accurx is really rewarding! Developers are encouraged to work closely with user researchers and product managers to understand what our users want, which helps shape the products we build. We receive regular feedback on code changes and how they’ve impacted our users, which is hugely motivating. Outside of writing code, my time is spent monitoring our product and working on any related bugs or incidents. As well as, focusing on supporting and mentoring other engineers, being involved in hiring processes and planning upcoming work with the rest of the product team." Emma Machin, Senior Backend Engineer

If you want to hear from some of our Accufolk about what it's like to work for us, take a look at a video from our 2024 summer conference!🤩

We'd really like to hear from you, if ...

• We work with C# (.Net core), so you will have experience in C#, C++ or Java
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, API design, and cloud services.
• Familiarity with modern frontend tools like React and TypeScript (collaborative focus).
• Experience designing scalable, reliable architectures and defining long-term technical strategies.
• Ability to align multiple teams toward cohesive solutions.
• User-focused approach to building maintainable, value-driven features.
• Strong collaboration with product managers and designers to prioritise user needs.
• Proven ability to mentor engineers and foster a high-performing, inclusive culture as well as promoting continuous learning and iterative improvement.
• Expertise in raising engineering standards via code reviews and best practices.
• Skilled in debugging, optimising CI/CD pipelines, and driving systemic enhancements.
• Clear communicator, able to influence across teams and articulate complex concepts to diverse stakeholders.

How you work...

At Accurx we believe in making every day count as we hold a vital role in supporting our users by driving innovative solutions to fix healthcare communication. We want everyone at Accurx to reflect our principles in how they work by looking to:

⭐ Fix healthcare communication

⬆️ Raise the bar

🚙 Be a driver, not a passenger 

🤲 Succeed together

💨 Move with urgency 

♻️ Be relentlessly resourceful 

☝️ Embrace challenge

...Check them out for more detail here!

What we can offer...🤔

💰 £100,000- £125,000 salary + the value of £80,000 share options (please refer to our public progression framework and salary bandings)

🤝 Access to Happl - a flexible benefits provider with a given budget of £600 to spend on perks of your choice. Options include private health insurance, wellness providers and more.

🏢 We are office first, all accuFolk come to our office in Shoreditch at least 3 days per week, with the option to work remotely 2 days a week. Read more about our policy here.

📚 Allocated annual learning & development budget 

🐣 Enhanced parental leave policy

🙏 Prayer, meditation and breastfeeding room

🌴 Working abroad policy

👩‍🍳We have our very own Chef! Free healthy breakfasts, snacks and lunches will be provided, with the occasional sweet treat!

...And much more.