Product Engineer 3 - Backend

Accurx Limited.; City of London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A fast-growing healthcare technology company is seeking a Product Engineer to develop impactful healthcare solutions. You will work with Microsoft technologies, collaborate in a cross-functional team, and improve communication for healthcare professionals and patients. This role focuses on understanding user needs and continuous improvement, offering a salary of £60,000-£80,000 plus share options.

Benefits

Flexible benefits provider

Allocated learning & development budget

Enhanced parental leave policy

Free healthy breakfasts and lunches

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of C# or Java, or similar programming languages.
• Curiosity to learn new technologies and frameworks.
• Eager to improve healthcare.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deliver new product features.
• Contribute to improving scalability and reliability of systems.
• Participate in user research sessions.

Skills

C#

Java

Collaborative environment

Problem solving

Tools

.NET Core

Kubernetes

Azure

Job description

Overview

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How you'll be contributing to Accurx as a Product Engineer… You'll play an essential role in creating impactful solutions that transform healthcare communication. Working closely with a collaborative team, you’ll develop features, solve real-world problems, and learn from experienced engineers while contributing to a product used by healthcare professionals and patients across the UK.

This is an opportunity to grow into a highly impactful product engineer: deepening your technical skills, understanding user needs, and building solutions that make a difference. Every day you’ll apply the “product engineer” mindset, being close to users and their needs, collaborating in user research by joining sessions with patients and their healthcare teams, building with a focus on the end goal and being responsible for continuous improvement to the live services you have shipped.

Responsibilities

• Be a key contributor in a cross-functional team to design, develop, and deliver new product features.
• Work with Microsoft technologies such as C#, .NET (Core), Kubernetes and Azure.
• Contribute to improving the scalability and reliability of our systems, which healthcare professionals depend on, including security and privacy considerations.
• You’ll focus on delivering features that address real-world problems, while also contributing to the continuous improvement of live services.
• Collaborate with wider stakeholders to build a deep understanding of our product: working directly with clinical leads, market experts, support teams and our security and privacy specialists.
• Develop your skills, learn from experienced engineers and contribute to technical decisions.
• Participate in user research sessions to understand the challenges faced by healthcare professionals and patients.
• Learn and apply best practices in software engineering to ensure high-quality code.

What the team say

We'd really like to hear from you, if:

• You have a strong understanding of C# or Java, or similar programming languages (bonus if you’ve used .NET Core).
• You’re curious and eager to learn new technologies and frameworks.
• You’re passionate about improving healthcare and making a meaningful impact.
• You thrive in a collaborative environment and value team success.
• You’re proactive, ready to identify issues, and contribute to solutions.
• You’re an excellent communicator who can simplify complex ideas.

How you work

At Accurx we believe in making every day count as we hold a vital role in supporting our users by driving innovative solutions to fix healthcare communication. We want everyone at Accurx to reflect our principles in how they work by looking to: Fix healthcare communication, Raise the bar, Be a driver, not a passenger, Succeed together, Move with urgency, Be relentlessly resourceful, Embrace challenge.

What We Can Offer

• Salary: £60,000- £80,000 plus the value of 31,500 share options.
• Access to Happl - a flexible benefits provider with a budget to spend on perks of your choice (e.g., private health insurance, wellness providers).
• Office first: all accuFolk come to our office in Shoreditch at least 3 days per week, with the option to work remotely 2 days a week. Read more about our policy here.
• Allocated annual learning & development budget.
• Enhanced parental leave policy.
• Prayer, meditation and breastfeeding room.
• Working abroad policy.
• Chef-provided meals—free healthy breakfasts, snacks and lunches, with occasional treats.

About us

We’re a fast-growing healthcare technology company which makes it easier for patients and healthcare teams to communicate. Accurx is where conversations happen with and about patients. Our software helps doctors, nurses, pharmacists, administrators and other professionals to seamlessly connect with both patients and each other. Our mission is simple: everything we do is to make patients healthier and healthcare staff happier. Today, Accurx is used in 98% of GP practices nationwide and every day more healthcare professionals are using our software in hospitals, pharmacies, care homes and the community. We’re passionate about staying close to our users, which is why everyone at Accurx visits a GP practice at least twice a quarter to understand how a practice runs, the difficulties they face with technologies and how we can help.

Head over to our main careers page to find out more about the team and our candidate hub. You can also find out more about us on Medium, LinkedIn and Twitter & Instagram. Our YouTube channel is full of demos of our product, webinars we have held with our users and some clips about life at Accurx.

Diversity & Inclusion

Accurx is committed to being an inclusive employer. As part of this, we’re glad to accommodate candidates who need adjustments throughout the interview process.

Pre-employment Screening

All successful candidates are asked to complete a Basic DBS check along with other pre-employment checks (referencing & right to work). You can find more on our process here. If you’d like to ask questions before you apply please email [e-mail].