Senior Software Engineer

Description
Lantum's products are used to organise the workforces delivering COVID vaccines across the UK.

We provide elegant & efficient clinical workforce management systems that enable GPs and hospitals to ensure there are sufficient clinicians to take care of patients, the wellbeing of staff - all whilst saving the organisation money.

The role
You'll be working in a cross-functional team with product and design as well as other engineers. We have a highly collaborative culture, with frequent pair programming and opportunities to experiment and get things wrong in a safe environment.

You care about technology and are constantly curious, always looking to learn and promote continuous improvement to our codebase by the use of modern methodologies. You seek to learn more about the fast-changing environment of software development and share those learnings with the team.

Responsibilities include:

• Collaborating with Product Managers, Designers and other Engineers to design and develop high impact features and improvements to our product, often solving technical problems of high scope and complexity.
• You are contributing to the technical leadership of your team. This includes setting standards, adoption of best practices, mentoring and guiding other engineers and ensuring consistency and high standards across the codebase.
• This role is not intended to be a people manager, although if you are interested in people management we would encourage you to apply as well.
• You are expected to be in the code on a daily basis - providing an example of what great looks like. You should regularly ship large features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members.
• Advocate for improvements to product quality, security and performance and help contribute to making it better.
• You’ll learn, collaborate with, and teach other Engineers. We believe everyone can contribute something new to the team regardless of how long they’ve been in the industry.

What does success in 3 months look like?

You have a strong grasp of the product, architecture, and codebase and are looking for ways you can contribute to the wider engineering team.
You have worked effectively with your squad in delivering existing roadmap features, and have demonstrated that you can deliver features of high complexity.
You have consistently given helpful code reviews which maintain the quality of our codebase and strengthen our engineers. Other developers now look to you for guidance on challenging technical areas.
You have made some mistakes and learnt from them, rarely making the same mistake multiple times.
You are an established member of the squad, regularly bringing new ideas to the table and partaking in convivial discussions
Requirements
Experience building and maintaining scalable, performant, and secure applications.
The ability to ensure quality (through testing or other measures) of the product and code shipped, efficiently, effectively and with a high cadence.
Experience with public cloud infrastructure, such as AWS.
Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems.
Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions.
The ability to identify key issues that inhibit a team’s effectiveness and the ability to deliver product improvements at pace.
Experience providing guidance or mentorship to more junior engineers.
A predisposition to thrive in a startup environment.

Our application is built in Python and React, run in Kubernetes, and hosted in AWS. Experience with our technology stack is not a requirement.

The Company
Lantum is on a mission to transform how the healthcare workforce connects with global healthcare systems. Our platform uses advanced technology to better support healthcare organisations to schedule, truly connect with their workforce saving precious time and money and boosting workforce satisfaction.

Since launch, we have supported over 2,000 healthcare organisations and saved over £30 million for the NHS, as such we are the number one healthcare workforce management platform, by a number of organisations in the UK. We are proud to have played a pivotal role in supporting the NHS throughout the pandemic, including managing the logistical features of scheduling the workforce to vaccinate the nation. We have consistent and strong growth, supportive VC backers and a talented team of passionate people, committed to positively impact people’s lives.

Lantum won the Amazon Web Services Digital Business of the Year Award, Digital Entrepreneur Award for Digital Innovation in the Public Sector, General Practice Awards for Digital Solution Provider of the Year) and more. We’ve been featured in the Telegraph, City AM, The Times, Health Investor, Harper’s Bazaar, New Statesman amongst other industry and national publications.

We are working fully remotely for the foreseeable future. Post-pandemic we will expect people to be able to work from our office to a sufficient extent that it enables effective planning and collaboration - we anticipate 1-2 days a week. Our office is currently located in Shoreditch.

Our Values
We want every employee to live the core values of the business:

• More than me - Our goals are too big to achieve on our own so we have to pull together and rely on each other and collaborate. It's more fun that way.
• Care a lot - Doing the right thing is not optional (even when no one is watching). We care a lot about each other, our users, the NHS, outcomes. We hold each other to the highest standards and earn our reputation every day.
• See it thru - Excellence isn't a skill, it's a habit - an endless pursuit of excellence. We take pride in planning and execution of all types of work - doing the big stuff as well as the usual, unspectacular things spectacularly well, day in, day out.
• Think around corners - We are an innovator in our industry. Both big and small ideas are our competitive advantage. All of us share a responsibility to challenge the status quo, think out of the box, think creatively, solve problems, and anticipate bumps.
• Bounce back & learn - Having a thirst for life, and to be the best in everything we do. Having a positive mental attitude, resilience, determination to win, and continually seeking ways to learn and improve.

Benefits
Our benefits package consists of:

• Market competitive salary
• Post-pandemic flexible work arrangements
• 25 days’ annual leave plus an extra day off for your birthday
• £200 stipend towards home office equipment
• Enhanced parental leave, including 3 months of maternity leave at 100% salary and 3 months at 50% salary
• Health shield cash plan
• Pension (up to 4% matching)
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Access to Spill, a mental health support app

Diversity promise

We believe that a great workplace is one that represents the world we live in and how beautifully diverse it can be. That means we have no judgement when it comes to any one of the things that make you who you are. Everyone is welcome — as an inclusive workplace, our employees are comfortable bringing their authentic whole selves to work. Be you. All you need is a passion and a desire to be part of our mission.