Full Stack Engineer

About ZAVA

We're on a mission to provide our patients with healthcare that is accessible and dependable at a fraction of today's cost. Our team of Doctors, Engineers, Customer Support Advisors, Marketers, Product Managers, UX Designers, Pharmacists, and Commercial & Operations Specialists work collaboratively, to develop and maintain a digital healthcare platform that provides our patients with healthcare that suits their needs and schedules.

The pandemic changed our lives, requiring us to find flexible, remote and innovative healthcare solutions to meet our needs during challenging and changeable periods. Many of our patients turned to telemedicine as a convenient solution to getting their healthcare online from the comfort of their homes. Through delivering a safe and efficient digital healthcare service, we've provided over 8 million consultations to date across the UK, Germany, France, and Ireland, enabling millions of people with essential access to healthcare when they need it most.

It's our motivation to continue fulfilling patient needs and to expand further to meet the needs of others, ensuring we're always there with the latest tech, treatments, and advice. We're doing more than providing healthcare, we're enabling and empowering people by making healthcare work for them.

About the role:

We are looking for a Full Stack Engineer to join the ZAVA Engineering team and increase the overall capacity of our Development function.

While you will form part of our Engineering team, day to day you will work in one of our cross-functional squads working alongside engineers and product management, taking responsibility for the development and maintenance of ZAVA products and services.

ZAVA Engineering is an agile, highly collaborative and passionate environment. You should be open to pairing, helping others and expanding your skills. We have 3 product development squads consisting of 4 - 6 people and with more demand for our services, we need your help to fit into one of them and help deliver more for our patients.

What can you expect from working with us?

Contribute to our technological direction - We have lots of new systems to design and build along with existing platforms to maintain and operate so there are plenty of opportunities for you to get involved

Agile, cross-functional working - We work in autonomous teams consisting of Product Owner, UI / UX Designers, QA, and Front and Back End Engineers. Depending on the mission, we also embed or collaborate with others from across the business such as Infrastructure Engineers, Data Analysts, Clinical, Marketing and Legal.

Chance to influence the future of healthcare - technology has enabled Zava to make efficiency gains in the healthcare sector. To continue pushing boundaries and expanding the company, our technology needs to evolve and grow while ensuring it meets everything required of it. You will play a significant role in ensuring the quality of how and what ZAVA delivers.

Competitive salary, flexible working and other benefits - aside from salary we offer a training budget, 10% R&D and learning time and flexible working (working pattern can be discussed)

Day-to-day the work will encompass:

Hands-on development - We are embracing and moving towards a microservice architecture approach that allows us to rapidly adapt and react to the changing needs of our business. You will be involved in the design, development and implementation of new services as well as enhancing and extending existing ones. You will engage in application deployment tackling tasks yourself and contributing to improving deployment plans and processes

Close collaboration in a cross-functional team - Along with being a member of our close-knit engineering team you’ll have a key role in one of our cross-functional squads, developing applications, systems and processes. You will actively contribute to your squad’s product roadmaps working closely with fellow engineers (backend, frontend and QA), product management and other key stakeholders to develop ideas into new features and applications.

Excellence and quality - You really care about technical excellence and how that is reflected in the user experience. You’ll collaborate closely with other engineers to improve usability, scalability and quality. You’ll write code to high-quality standards ensuring your work is tested (unit, integration, end-to-end) and monitored to a sufficient level. You will input on colleagues’ code & design reviews providing constructive feedback (as well as being open to receiving feedback yourself)

Contributing to a Guild - we use Guilds to enable subject matter experts to get together, share knowledge, and best practices and form standards to keep the teams improving. There are Backend and Frontend Guilds up and running so you’ll have a great place to share ideas, contribute and learn

Innovation - You will keep yourself up-to-date on software, testing and technology trends, identifying and considering opportunities to utilise within ZAVA’s technology landscape

For this role, you need experience of:

- Development, design and maintenance of applications and services in a cloud environment (we use AWS)

- Front-end development utilising JavaScript, HTML and CSS. This should include experience working with a modern front-end javascript framework (ideally Vue.js.)

- OOP TypeScript (Node) or another backend language (ideally PHP)

- API development and consumption

- Databases (MySQL, DynamoDB)

- Code versioning tools, such as Git

- Working in an Agile environment (we use Kanban) within cross-functional teams

- Analysing, contributing to and refining requirements

- Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) to define and capture acceptance criteria

- Debugging and analysis of issues (we use NewRelic and AWS Cloudwatch)

- Continuous Integration job setup and configuration (we use Jenkins)

Any experience of the following would be advantageous:

- AWS

- Healthcare domain experience (e.g. FHIR)

- Process orchestration (we use Temporal)

- Docker containers

- Serverless

- Security awareness

- Exposure to Behaviour Driven Development practices

- German, French or Spanish language skills (not essential)

Core working hours:

Our core business hours are 9am - 6pm, although flexible working arrangements are available upon agreement with your line manager.

Benefits from the day you join:

🏖 25 days holiday + bank holidays + Birthday off

🩺 Healthcare cash back plan through Simply Health

💙 20% off all ZAVA products and services for you, friends and family

🏡 Remote, hybrid, and flexible working (role dependent)

💻 MacBook Pro

🧘Free access to Wellness Cloud, to support your mental health and wellbeing

🌍Flexible bank holidays - take the ones that matter the most to you

Additional benefits following the probation period:

💰 £500 training budget per year

✈️ Company sabbatical after 2 years

🗺 Opportunity to work from overseas for 2 months each year

🤑 Cash vouchers after 3, 5, and 10 years of service

We are working hard to try and level the playing field wherever we can. We know from research that men are happy to apply for positions where they fit just 60% of the requirements, whereas women and underrepresented groups often will not apply unless they feel they are a super close match. If you don't think you meet all the requirements that you see above, we encourage you to apply and tell us what we can do to give you your best shot - if you want. We know that talent is everywhere, and as much as nice CVs are nice, they are often not a proxy for the best person for the job.