Senior Software Engineer
Our Future Health
Senior Software Engineer
Our Future Health
UK health data collection for research
Our Future Health · London, United Kingdom (Hybrid) · Full-time · Posted 2026-11-05
Salary: From GBP 88,000
Workplace: hybrid
Department: Technology - Engineering
Our Future Health is an ambitious collaboration between the public, charity and private sectors, designed to help people live healthier lives for longer through better prevention, earlier detection and improved treatment of diseases. We will speed up the discovery of new methods of early disease detection, and the evaluation of new diagnostic tools, to help identify and treat diseases early, when outcomes are usually better. With over 2.8M volunteers across the UK, we’re now the world’s biggest health research programme of its kind, and our volunteer group is also more diverse than other, similar health research programmes.
Technology and data are central to our mission. Our systems power web sites, clinics across the UK, secure analytics and research systems, pipelines that process highly sensitive health and genetic data, and we are continuing to grow our engineering capability to support this ambition.
We are hiring a backend leaning full-stack focused Senior Software Engineer to join our Research Enablement squad. This squad sits on the intersection of the Trusted Research Environment (TRE) and our bespoke security tooling and assets. Our squad vision is to create a secure, trusted and state of the art research environment to empower Researchers with their health research. We work closely with some of our internal operational teams as well as external partners, and are solving lots of rare but exciting problems.
Our engineers are full-stack, handling frontend, backend and infrastructure in a total ownership model - squads build and run it. The work is usually more back-end leaning involving event driven services, APIs and bespoke security checks, but front-end work is also a critical part of the overall service.
Our core tech-stack includes Typescript, Node.JS, PostgresSQL, WebAssembly, Terraform (IaC), running in Azure / Kubernetes.
If you are passionate about your work, develop consistently high-quality code, and are adept at identifying, preventing, and troubleshooting problems we would love to hear from you.
This role will be fully hybrid with the expectation we get together in our Holborn, London office at least once per month.
We welcome applications from all who may not feel they match the full criteria, so if you have most of the below, we'd like to hear from you:
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We feel hiring should be transparent and give you a real sense for what Our Future Health is like. Here's what you can expect:
Join us - let’s prevent disease together.
We recommend you apply as soon as possible as occasionally due to high volumes of applications, we need to close our postings early.
At Our Future Health, we recognise the importance of having a diverse workforce and ensuring that all candidates, regardless of their background, have equitable access to our application process. We proactively encourage applicants who identify as having a disability, neurodiversity, or long-term health conditions to let us know if they require any reasonable adjustments as part of their application process.
If you do require any reasonable adjustments, please email us at [email protected]
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UK health data collection for research
Our Future Health is a UK charity running the country's largest health research programme. It invites up to five million adults to participate by completing a questionnaire and giving a blood sample, with their data linked to health records. This creates a detailed picture of the nation’s health to help researchers find new ways to prevent, detect, and treat diseases such as cancer, diabetes, and dementia. The project combines ethical, practical, and technological work to handle vast amounts of data and develop useful insights. Unlike smaller studies, it aims for large-scale, long-term data collection across the entire population. The ultimate goal is to help future generations stay healthier for longer by guiding better disease prevention and care.
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