Senior Software Engineer

HireQ Talent is partnering with an innovative health technology company that is transforming how clinical research is conducted across the globe. The Senior Software Engineer will work within a cross-functional team to design and develop scalable microservices and APIs for a healthcare platform, influencing architecture and driving engineering best practices.

Responsibilities:

• Designing, building, and maintaining scalable backend services and APIs
• Owning features from concept through to deployment and continuous improvement
• Collaborating closely with Product, QA, DevOps, and Engineering teams
• Driving technical excellence through code reviews, testing, and engineering standards
• Improving platform performance, reliability, and security
• Supporting cloud-native deployments and operational resilience
• Contributing to technical design discussions and architectural decisions
• Creating clear technical documentation and API specifications
• Identifying opportunities to simplify systems and improve delivery velocity

Requirements:

• Strong experience building and delivering production-grade REST APIs
• Commercial experience with modern backend technologies (Python/FastAPI highly desirable)
• Expertise designing and maintaining PostgreSQL databases
• Experience integrating third-party APIs and external services
• Strong automated testing practices across unit, integration, and API testing
• Experience building and deploying containerised applications using Docker
• Proven success working in Agile, cross-functional engineering environments
• API-first development and OpenAPI design principles
• Modern architecture patterns and scalable service design
• Database modelling, ORM frameworks, and migration tooling
• Security best practices including authentication, authorisation, encryption, and secrets management
• Cloud platforms (Azure experience highly beneficial)
• CI/CD pipelines and DevOps best practices
• Observability, monitoring, logging, and performance optimisation
• Experience within healthcare, life sciences, medtech, or regulated environments
• Exposure to high-growth SaaS or platform businesses
• Knowledge of Python ecosystems including FastAPI, Pydantic, SQLAlchemy, and Alembic