Senior Software Engineer

Role: Senior Software Engineer

Salary: £75,000 - £95,000 (DOE)

Location: Manchester (Hybrid)

A venture-backed AI company is scaling its engineering team following strong commercial growth and expanding adoption across major enterprise healthcare and life sciences customers.

The business is building innovative AI products used in live, customer-facing environments and is now at a stage where product and engineering capacity needs to increase to support further growth. The engineering team is still relatively small, offering the chance to take real ownership and make a visible impact.

The Role

• Own features and product initiatives end-to-end, from requirements through to release
• Contribute to architectural and system design decisions
• Build and improve full-stack product functionality across frontend and backend
• Improve platform performance, especially in realtime user experiences
• Work closely with internal stakeholders in a fast-moving startup environment
• Make sound technical decisions and clearly explain trade-offs
• Help raise engineering quality through strong technical standards and contribution to reviews
• Stay hands-on with coding and implementation

What They’re Looking For

• Senior-level full-stack engineering experience, with roughly 7+ years as a guide
• Strong frontend capability with TypeScript and/or React
• Backend experience with Python, ideally including frameworks such as Django, FastAPI or Flask
• Engineers with backgrounds in Go or Node.js can also be considered if comfortable working in Python
• Experience with cloud infrastructure; GCP or AWS are both relevant
• Strong system design ability
• Clear evidence of end-to-end ownership
• Ability to make and justify technical decisions, not just deliver tickets
• Strong hands-on coding skills
• Comfortable using AI tools as part of workflow, but not dependent on them to the point of lacking coding depth
• Experience solving meaningful technical problems and delivering measurable impact

Desirable Skills

• Terraform
• CI/CD
• Kubernetes
• ArgoCD
• AI products or AI-assisted development tools

Why This Role?

• Join a business where engineering is a core driver of product innovation rather than a support function.
• Build products that are already delivering measurable value to healthcare and life sciences professionals on a global scale.
• Work directly alongside senior leadership, influencing both technical direction and product strategy.
• Be part of a highly ambitious scale-up environment where your ideas can shape the future of the platform.
• Join during a key growth phase with clear opportunities for progression and increased responsibility.
• Fantastic benefits package

Nice to Have

• Startup or scale-up experience
• Exposure to a range of modern frameworks and technologies
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills
• Previous startup experience, if there is a clear motivation to move into that environment

This opportunity would suit someone who enjoys solving complex engineering challenges, wants meaningful ownership, and is excited by the prospect of building AI-driven products that are having a tangible impact within healthcare and life sciences.

To hear further details, please directly apply of send your CV to b.beeley@gravitasgroup.com