Senior Fullstack Engineer

About this role

As the first digital hospital, we are rebuilding the healthcare experience from scratch. This is what allows us to provide patients with an outstanding level of care that we would love to experience ourselves.

Backed by renowned international investors, we are helping an ever-growing number of patients receive the highest quality of medical procedures the UK has to offer.

To help us maintain this level of care, we need to expand our Engineering Team with highly motivated and passionate people who thrive in a fast-paced and dynamic work environment.

As a Senior Fullstack Developer, you will be a crucial part of fulfilling our mission to raise the standard of secondary care and make it accessible to all.

Together with the rest of the team, you will create a new way of providing simpler, smarter, and more personal healthcare for everybody in the UK and beyond by developing and maintaining meaningful features for our different applications to support our patients, medical professionals, and staff along their journeys.

What you will do

• Scale and improve existing backend and frontend features, services, and data sources for our applications, serving patients, healthcare professionals, and Medbelle staff.
• Build and maintain performant, scalable internal and customer-facing web applications using our backend and frontend technology stack.
• Set up and maintain performance monitoring systems to enable continuous improvement strategies across our full stack platform.
• Collaborate with Product and Design teams to define development sprints and deliver beautiful, high-quality UIs aligned with our design system.
• Define and implement initiatives to improve development workflows and tooling for both backend and frontend applications.
• Deploy and maintain a secure, robust, and scalable platform and infrastructure.
• Improve and maintain testing setups, including end-to-end testing, to ensure reliable and predictable changes across the stack.
• Document engineering guidelines and best practices for both frontend and backend development.
• Mentor other engineers on full stack best practices and technical leadership in your areas of expertise.

Key Components of Our Tech Stack

• Backend : Python + Django with PostgreSQL, Django Q for task queueing, Graphene for GraphQL, Elasticsearch, and Redis.
• Frontend : React + Next.js, TailwindCSS for styling, a custom design system for building UIs, Apollo client for data fetching, Playwright for end-to-end testing, deployed via Vercel.

Who you are

• 6+ years of experience as a software developer.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with an ability to debug and optimize performance issues across the stack.
• Proven experience building performant production-level APIs and web applications using Django, Django RESTful, GraphQL, and React.
• Proficient in SQL, especially with PostgreSQL, and CSS, particularly TailwindCSS.
• Professional fluency in English.

Bonus points

• Experience with headless CMS solutions or Wagtail.
• Familiarity with SQLAlchemy, Docker, and AWS deployment pipelines.
• Experience with Apollo client and GraphQL libraries, design systems like Storybook, end-to-end testing with Playwright, and React component testing.
• TypeScript experience in production applications.
• Background in healthcare tech or working in startups or other high-growth environments.

What we offer

• Nilo mental health support subscription that allows each team member to have free consultations with therapists and psychologists for mental health signposting, recommendations and diagnosis
• Urban Sports Club membership
• Learning-and-development budget
• Corporate discounts and subscriptions
• Team events and team brunches, lunches and many more things
• A hybrid-remote working set-up that allows for flexibility within the working week
• We also provide an allowance to work fully remotely for three months per year so you can work from anywhere in the world (with a stable internet connection)!

About us

Medbelle is building the world's first digital hospital, enabling better specialist care pathways at lower costs throughout the UK.

Their custom-built technology supports their nationwide network of most private UK surgeons and hospitals, which redefines healthcare accessibility and empowers patients and clinicians alike.

Background : Founded in 2016 and supported by £20M+ of funding from reputable international investors, Medbelle has established itself as a European leader in elective specialist care digitalisation.

Having established partnerships with organisations like Bupa, HCML and HealthcareRM and working with some of the UK’s leading surgeons, Medbelle has supported 200k+ patients, enabled multiple thousand surgical procedures and is quickly growing revenues.

Mission : Make the best medical care accessible to all. In the future, all patients will be treated with the support of digital hospitals : The model enables a better care experience, excellent medical results, and keeps healthcare affordable for patients and insurers.

At a large scale, Medbelle can generate cost-savings that can keep better healthcare affordable and accessible even with demographic change.

• Value : UK's best-rated medical provider (NPS 88), quantified quality of care through standardised clinical outcome collection, and significant cost savings for patients and health insurers.
• Model : Medbelle supports both insurers and non-insured patients in getting the best care at lower costs and with minimal admin efforts.

As a tech-enabled care provider, Medbelle provides procedures, consultations and diagnostics to individual non-insured patients and insurance companies.

• Team : Leander (CEO; WHU, background in tech & consulting, parents are doctors), Dan (CMO; ex-orthopaedic surgeon and ex-medical director at Bupa, HBS-trained), Sid (CFO;
• 7x PE in London at Nomura / Perella / Goldman), Luis (CTO; 20y in software dev). 48 people (39 in Berlin, 9 in the UK; plan to recruit increasingly in the UK;

remote-first but with a Berlin office and regular in-person meetings in the UK)

OUR CULTURE

50+ Medbellians

25+ Nationalities

17 Languages

Alone you go fast, together you go far : We celebrate strong individual performance - but we believe that it is only the first step towards success.

Extraordinary results require that talented individuals collaborate, with strong opinions weakly held and with a shared commitment to do whatever is best to achieve our joint mission.

If this role, our mission, and our culture resonate with you then we would love to hear from you.

We are also open to general applications from extraordinary candidates.

If you want to learn more about us, here are some links to get you started :

Trustpilot : Best-rated medical provider in the UK - What our patients say - http : / / bit.ly / medbelle trustpilot

Glassdoor : What our team members say - http : / / bit.ly / medbelle glassdoor

At Medbelle, we strive daily to be as inclusive as possible, not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it makes us stronger.

We will always celebrate you for, well, being you!

This means all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, or age.