Senior Full Stack Python Engineer
Remote Anywhere in the UK | Up to £110,000 + Exceptional Benefits Package
Build Technology That's Changing Lives
Most engineering roles promise impact. This one actually delivers it.
HireQ Talent are with an innovative HealthTech organisation that's transforming the way clinical research is delivered worldwide. Their intelligent platform helps researchers, healthcare providers, and pharmaceutical organisations accelerate the development of life-changing treatments by replacing manual, outdated processes with modern technology.
Now, as they continue expanding across Europe and North America, they're looking for a Senior Full Stack Python Engineer to help shape the next generation of their platform.
If you're passionate about building scalable applications, influencing technical direction, and using technology to solve real-world healthcare challenges, this could be your perfect next move.
Why You'll Love This Opportunity
Build products that genuinely improve lives
Fully remote working across the UK
Join a high-growth, mission-driven technology company
Influence architecture, technology decisions, and product direction
Work alongside talented Engineers, Product Specialists, QA and DevOps teams
Modern cloud-native technology stack
Fantastic long-term career progression opportunities
Salary up to £110,000
The Opportunity
As a Senior Full Stack Python Engineer, you'll play a key role in designing, developing, and scaling a market-leading clinical research platform used by organisations worldwide.
You'll work across backend services, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and selected front-end functionality, helping deliver highly secure, scalable, and reliable solutions that support healthcare innovation on a global scale.
This is a hands-on engineering role with significant influence and ownership, offering the opportunity to contribute to both product evolution and long-term technical strategy.
What You'll Be Doing
Software Engineering
Designing and developing scalable backend services and APIs
Building, enhancing and maintaining cloud-native applications
Delivering features from concept through to deployment and optimisation
Developing secure, high-performance software solutions
Integrating third-party platforms and external services
Supporting both backend and front-end development initiatives where required
Architecture & Technical Strategy
Contributing to platform architecture and technical roadmaps
Driving engineering best practices and coding standards
Improving application scalability, performance and reliability
Identifying opportunities to simplify systems and reduce technical complexity
Supporting key architectural and technology decisions
Collaboration & Leadership
Working closely with Product, QA, Engineering and DevOps teams
Participating in code reviews and technical discussions
Mentoring and supporting fellow engineers
Championing a culture of quality, innovation and continuous improvement
Producing clear technical documentation and API specifications
What We're Looking For
Core Experience
Strong experience developing production-grade APIs
Commercial experience building applications using Python
Strong expertise with FastAPI
Advanced knowledge of PostgreSQL
Experience integrating external APIs and third-party services
Strong understanding of automated testing practices
Experience working with Docker and containerised deployments
Proven success within Agile software engineering environments
Experience delivering scalable, customer-facing software products
Technical Skills
Ideally You'll Have Experience With:
Microsoft Azure
CI/CD pipelines and DevOps best practices
Secure software development, authentication and authorisation
Monitoring, observability and performance optimisation
Distributed systems and modern application architecture
OpenAPI and API-first development
Database design, schema management and migrations
FastAPI, Pydantic, SQLAlchemy and Alembic
Bonus Points If You Have
Commercial front-end development experience with React.js OR backend development experience with C# / .NET
Experience within Healthcare, MedTech, HealthTech, Life Sciences or other regulated environments
Experience working within fast-growing SaaS or product-led technology organisations
Experience scaling cloud-native applications supporting international users
What's In It For You?
Up to £110,000 salary
Fully remote working anywhere within the UK
Significant influence over platform architecture and engineering decisions
Ongoing learning, development and career progression
Opportunity to work on technology making a real difference to healthcare outcomes
Challenging technical problems within a modern engineering environment
Collaborative, supportive and highly capable engineering team
Opportunity to grow with a rapidly expanding global business
Ready To Build Technology That Matters?
This is an outstanding opportunity for a Senior Full Stack Python Engineer who wants to combine technical excellence with genuine real-world impact.
If you're excited by modern cloud technologies, scalable software architecture, and the opportunity to help accelerate medical innovation worldwide, we'd love to hear from you.
Apply today and help shape the future of clinical research technology.
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