About ZAVA:
We’re on a mission to provide our patients with healthcare that is dependable, affordable, and a fraction of today’s cost. By creating a safe, efficient and convenient approach to healthcare we’ve already provided over 5 million consultations across the UK, Germany, France, and Ireland.
Our team of Doctors, Engineers, Customer Support Advisors, Marketers, Product Managers, UX Designers, Pharmacists, Commercial & Operations Specialists all work collaboratively to build a digital healthcare platform that enables our patients to find the right healthcare quickly, effectively, and discreetly so they can do more of what matters to them.
At the end of 2020, we secured a second round of investment and completed two exciting acquisitions in Germany. We're a scaleup company with ambitious growth plans.
We’re here because we care about healthcare and we plan to be Europe’s biggest digital healthcare provider by 2025.
About the role:
We’re looking for an enthusiastic Back-end Engineer with a passion to build scalable, performant products that will make a genuine difference to the lives of others. You will be working remotely from Spain, collaborating live with a team across Europe.
What can you expect from working with us? / What's in it for you?
- Shape the landscape of digital healthcare - The pandemic has seen the already growing health-tech industry accelerate ten-fold. Demand for remote healthcare is increasing and the legislative landscape is constantly evolving across Europe. You will have the opportunity to be part of the change at a rapidly scaling company.
- Agile, cross-functional working - We work in autonomous teams composed of Product Owner, UI / UX Designers, QA, 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.
- Adaptability - We apply a composable approach to system design. It allows us to experiment with different solutions, connecting various parts of our system in different ways to unlock new functionalities. This approach also means we can make each part of our system easily and safely modifiable.
Day-to-day the work will encompass:
- Work closely with team members, Product Owner and Agile Coach to develop new features and applications based on your team’s plan
- Design and implement new Services, enhance and extend existing Services
- Code to high quality standards ensuring your work is tested (unit, integration, end-to-end) and monitored to sufficient level
- Collaborate with other engineers to improve usability, scalability and quality
- Learn and stay up-to-date on technologies
- Input on colleague’s code & design reviews providing constructive feedback (as well as being open to receive feedback yourself)
- Engage in application deployments tackling tasks yourself and contributing to improving deployment plans and processes
- Actively contribute to developing your team’s product roadmaps, building and iterate on solutions
Experience and qualifications:
- RESTful API development and consumption
- Development and design of applications and services
- OOP JavaScript (Node) is our backend language of choice with PHP legacy. If your experienced in another language but an interest in learning please do make contact
- Code versioning tools, such as git
- Agile team experience
- TDD
- Continuous Integration
- Docker & Linux containers
Line Manager: Engineering Manager
Application Journey:
- Call with Talent team
- Hiring Manager Screening call
- Technical paired programming
- Panel interview + Senior Manager Wrap-up call
Benefits:
- 33 days holiday (inc bank holidays) + Birthday day off
- £500 training budget per year
- Healthcare cash plan
- Company sabbatical after 2 years
- Remote flexible working
- Macbook pro
- Office Food & drinks
- Dog friendly office
