Senior Node.js & Cloud Engineer

🕙 Role details: This is a full time role for 40 contracted hours per week

💷 Salary: £60,000 - £75,000 per annum (based on experience and track record)

🌍 Location: We are a hybrid team, based throughout the UK. We offer the flexibility to work outside of the UK up to 90 days per year, however you must be able to work and live permanently within the UK. You will also be required to travel to London for our company meetups once per quarter. #LI-Remote

Isla enables healthcare systems to deliver next level healthcare, meeting the challenges of global increase in demand for services through an efficient new model and technology platform. We provide clinicians with the platform they need to receive a continuous flow of clinical information from patients and create an always up to date understanding of a person’s health. This provides valuable clinical context for decision-making whilst delivering convenient care for patients, empowering clinical teams to deliver responsive care with fewer appointments. The Isla platform is intuitive, endlessly scalable, and approved by NHS Digital as a cloud storage solution.

The Team

We are a growing team dedicated to improving healthcare. We are ambitious, customer focused, and driven by the impact we are having in healthcare. We’re also a well funded startup, which brings a level of uncertainty, but also agility and growth opportunities unlike anywhere else.

You will work directly with our other Engineers and Founders to ensure you're developing professionally, as well as happy, motivated, and understand the wider business & health context that we are working in. The people around you will be super smart and motivated, and expect a lot from you. That will be exciting for you.

As a B Corp, we are also part of a global community of businesses that meet high standards of social and environmental impact.

The Tech

Isla's robust healthcare backend leverages GCP's serverless functions (Cloud Functions) and containers (Cloud Run) for scalable microservices. Real-time data flows through Pub/Sub, combined with a multi-database architecture (SQL, NoSQL, and Redis) optimises data access and management. Secure connections are ensured via private VPCs and our frontend (Angular) application and client integrations are supported through REST/GQL APIs.

You will be experienced with GCP, or its core concepts from working with AWS or Azure, as well as a capable Node.js / Typescript Engineer. You will have experience integrating with a variety of APIs and 3rd party services, as well as Terraform and testing frameworks such as Jest.

Our datastore is NoSQL, so familiarity with the benefits and limitations of such a store would also be beneficial.

Outcomes you’ll be responsible for

• Leading the design, implementation, and evolution of scalable, secure, and high-performance software solutions and cloud architecture to address complex healthcare challenges and improve patient care
• Championing technical excellence and continuous improvement by driving best practices in software development, DevOps, and cloud infrastructure
• Building a high-calibre engineering team through mentorship, collaboration, and a commitment to quality, while taking ownership of diverse technical challenges across the stack

Tasks you might do

• Build the platform that will allow our clients to look after their patients, integrating new SSO OAuth providers, Patient Record systems, amongst other things!
• Assist with managing our cloud infrastructure, VMs and networking requirements, to ensure that we can scalably interact with NHS systems
• Work on some of our first international rollouts, ensure all automation and infrastructure is in place
• Actively contribute to our Product strategy

Aptitudes you’ll display

• Drive to solve complex problems and overcome scaling challenges
• Proactive attitude and eagerness to collaborate with all areas of the business and our customers directly
• Empathy and enthusiasm to help the wider team progress through mentoring and tech leadership

This role might not be for you if

• You prefer a slower pace. While the problem we’re facing has a long time horizon, it’s also critical that we make meaningful progress on it today, not next quarter or year
• If you are based outside of the UK. Although we are a remote team and offer flexible working location (Isla team members can work abroad up to 90 days per year) you must be eligible to live and work in the UK

🏡 Work from home or at our office in Huckletree Shoreditch (Finsbury Square) 🏢

💻 A company-provided MacBook (or equivalent)

🐶 Pet friendly office

🕜 Flexible working times

🏖️ 25 days annual leave (on top of bank holidays)

🎂 Take your birthday off

🎄 Take Christmas Eve off too

🌍 Work abroad for up to 90 days per year

🎉 Enhanced parental leave

🍜 Treat your friends or family to a meal each quarter (up to £75)

🧘‍♀️ A monthly wellbeing bonus (£50 per month for gym membership/wellbeing activities)

🎳 Regular team socials

📚 Learning sessions every month 

📈 Equity options available

💰5% employer-matched pension contribution

💗 Delivering social impact through improved patient healthcare

💡 Working at a well funded and rapidly growing start up, solving a global problem in a new way

🎇A whole lot of fun on an exciting journey

What is the hiring process for this role at Isla?

Interviewing with us for the Senior Node.js & Cloud Engineer role will be split into 4 stages (all conducted virtually):

1️⃣ A screening interview with our Director of Operations - 20 minutes

2️⃣ A practical task you will complete independently

3️⃣ A technical interview with our Engineering Lead - 1 hour

4️⃣ A final interview with one of our Co-founders - 30 minutes

Diversity and Inclusion

Isla is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to building an inclusive and diverse team. We encourage all qualified candidates to apply. Isla does not discriminate against anyone on the basis of their race, gender, disability, religion, national origin, age, or any other protected category. We choose to celebrate our team’s differences and see them as one of our most valuable assets.

Recruitment is not one-size-fits-all and we're happy to tailor our hiring process to better meet the needs of individual applicants. Please email with any requests for support.

Using AI tools for your application

Most of our roles include several questions as part of the application process. AI tools such as ChatGPT might be useful in structuring or proof-reading your cover letter or your application answers. We encourage you to do your own research though to fully understand the company and the role you are applying to as you will be asked questions during any interview. Generic AI-generated answers are also really obvious. We'd like to get an idea of how you think early in the process; you should also make sure Isla is the right fit for you before you apply. Make AI tools work for you, not against you!