Remote Senior Backend Python Engineer- Series C HealthTech

CompanyRobert Walters

LocationLondon, England, United Kingdom

Posted At12/4/2025

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£46,100 (£23.64 per hour)

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Description

Our client is a Series C Silicon Valley HealthTech with teams in San Francisco and London. We are hiring a Backend Engineer to work on the backbone of a platform that combines real-time data, AI insights, and personalized care pathways to transform healthcare delivery.

This role is fully remote within the UK without work visa sponsorship.

Core Responsibilities:

Design and implement scalable backend services that ingest, transform, and persist diverse health data
Build APIs and data pipelines for real-time and batch processing, ensuring data integrity, security, and compliance.
Integrate with external systems and protocols including FHIR APIs, BLE-based devices, Apple HealthKit, and Google Fit.
Ensure backend services are designed for high availability, reliability, and low latency, especially for real-time clinical decision support.
Collaborate with security and compliance teams to ensure HIPAA-compliant handling of PHI/PII data.
Work cross-functionally with product, clinical, and AI teams to align backend capabilities with user-facing experiences and clinical workflows.
Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, observability tooling, and data quality monitoring.

Requirements:

5+ years of backend development experience in Python
Experience with healthcare data types and sources: EHRs (FHIR/HL7), wearables (PPG, ECG, accelerometer), vitals, surveys.
Strong understanding of data security, encryption, access control, and handling regulated healthcare data (HIPAA, SOC 2).
Proficiency in building and maintaining RESTful APIs, message queues (Kafka, Pub/Sub, RabbitMQ), and cloud-native services (GCP, AWS).
Experience with databases (PostgreSQL, BigQuery, MongoDB and TimescaleDB) and data modeling for time-series or medical data.
Familiarity with event-driven architecture, microservices, and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).

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