🕙 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
Tasks you might do
Aptitudes you’ll display
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🏡 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 recruitment@isla.health 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!