Full Stack Engineer

About ZAVA

We're on a mission to provide our patients with accessible and dependable healthcare at a fraction of today's cost. Our team of Doctors, Engineers, Customer Support Advisors, Marketers, Product Managers, UX Designers, Pharmacists, and Commercial and Operations Specialists works collaboratively to develop and maintain a digital healthcare platform that suits our patients' needs and schedules.

The pandemic changed our lives, requiring us to find flexible, remote and innovative healthcare solutions to meet our needs during challenging and changeable periods. Many of our patients turned to telemedicine as a convenient solution to getting their healthcare online from the comfort of their homes. By delivering a safe and efficient digital healthcare service, we\'ve provided over 13 million consultations across the UK, Germany, France, and Ireland, enabling millions of people to have essential access to healthcare when they need it most.

It\'s our motivation to continue fulfilling their needs and to expand further to meet the needs of others, ensuring we\'re always there with the latest tech, treatments and advice. We\'re doing more than providing healthcare, we\'re enabling and empowering people by making healthcare work for them. We’re here because we care about healthcare, and we plan to be the largest digital primary healthcare platform for people across Europe.

About the role :

We are hiring a Full Stack Engineer to join the ZAVA Engineering team and increase the overall capacity of our Development function.

While you will be part of our Engineering team, day-to-day, you will work in one of our cross-functional squads, working alongside engineers and product management, taking responsibility for the development and maintenance of ZAVA products and services.

ZAVA Engineering is an agile, highly collaborative and passionate environment. You should be open to pairing, helping others and expanding your skills. We have three product development squads, each consisting of 4-6 people. With increased demand for our services, we need your help to join one of them and contribute to delivering more for our patients.

What can you expect from working with us?

Contribute to our technological direction - We have lots of new systems to design and build, along with existing platforms to maintain and operate so there are plenty of opportunities for you to get involved

Agile, cross-functional working - We work in autonomous teams consisting of Product Owner, UI / UX Designers, QA, and 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.

Chance to influence the future of healthcare - technology has enabled Zava to make efficiency gains in the healthcare sector. To continue pushing boundaries and expanding the company, our technology needs to evolve and grow while ensuring it meets everything required of it. You will play a significant role in ensuring the quality of how and what ZAVA delivers.

Competitive salary, flexible working and other benefits - aside from salary we offer a training budget, 10% R&D and learning time and flexible working (working pattern can be discussed)

Day-to-day, the work will encompass :

Hands on development of ZAVA applications and architecture - You will be responsible for design, implementation and delivery of new applications, components and features including incremental updates to ZAVA’s current components as well as creating new shareable and reusable components. You willingly share your technical expertise with your team and the broader organisation, coaching others and helping raise technology standards across ZAVA.

Hands-on development - We are embracing and moving towards a microservice architecture approach that allows us to rapidly adapt and react to the changing needs of our business. You will be involved in the design, development and implementation of new services as well as enhancing and extending existing ones. You will engage in application deployment, tackling tasks yourself and contributing to improving deployment plans and processes

Close collaboration in a cross-functional team - Along with being a member of our close-knit engineering team, you\'ll have a key role in one of our cross-functional squads, developing applications, systems and processes. You will actively contribute to your squad’s product roadmaps, working closely with fellow engineers (backend, frontend and QA), product management and other key stakeholders to develop ideas into new features and applications.

Excellence and quality - You really care about technical excellence and how that is reflected in the user experience. You’ll collaborate closely with other engineers to improve usability, scalability and quality. You’ll write code to high-quality standards, ensuring your work is tested (unit, integration, end-to-end) and monitored to a sufficient level. You will provide input on colleagues’ code and design reviews, providing constructive feedback (as well as being open to receiving feedback yourself).

Delivering Value - As a senior engineer, you will be involved through all stages of delivery from planning to deployment, engaging with stakeholders and peers, ensuring that work is clarified, suitably sized, compliant and prioritised before progressing through the development lifecycle. You communicate effectively with your team, helping everyone progress and deliver on commitments.

Contributing to a Guild - we use Guilds to enable subject matter experts to get together, share knowledge, best practices and form standards to keep the teams improving. There are Backend and Frontend Guilds up and running, so you\'ll have a great place to share ideas, contribute and learn.

Innovation - You will keep yourself up-to-date on software, testing and technology trends, identifying and considering opportunities to utilise within ZAVA’s technology landscape.

For this role, you need experience of :

• Development, design and maintenance of applications and services in a cloud environment (we use AWS)
• Node.js / Go / PHP or another backend language
• Front-end development utilising JavaScript, HTML and CSS ideally with experience of a modern front-end JavaScript framework (ideally Vue.js.)
• Databases (MySQL, DynamoDB) and web servers (e.g., Apache, Nginx)
• Code versioning tools, such as Git
• Working in an Agile environment (we use Kanban) within cross-functional teams
• Analysing, contributing to and refining requirements
• Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) to define and capture acceptance criteria
• API development and consumption
• Debugging and analysis of issues (we use NewRelic and AWS Cloudwatch)
• Continuous Integration job setup and configuration (we use Jenkins)
• Basic Linux skills (find a file, view log files etc)

Any experience of the following would be advantageous :

Personal qualities

Core working hours :

Our core business hours are 9 : 00 a.m. - 6 : 00 p.m. GMT with an hour break.

Recruitment Process :

Benefits from the day you join :

33 days per annum pro-rata (inclusive of public and bank holidays) + birthday off

Free access to Wellness Cloud, advice, counselling, and corporate discounts

20% off all ZAVA products & services for you and your friends and family

Remote, hybrid, and flexible working

MacBook Pro

Flexible bank holidays - take the ones that matter the most to you.

Additional benefits following the probation period :

£500 training budget per year

Vitality Private Health Insurance + Vitality discounts inc headspace membership

Healthcare cash back plan through SimplyHealth

Company sabbatical after 2 years

Opportunity to work from overseas for 2 months each year

Cash vouchers after 3, 5, and 10 years of service

We are working hard to try and level the playing field wherever we can. We know from research that men are happy to apply for positions where they fit just 60% of the requirements, whereas women and underrepresented groups often will not apply unless they feel they are a super close match. If you don\'t think you meet all the requirements that you see above, we encourage you to apply and tell us what we can do to give you your best shot - if you want. Please note : certain positions will be subject to a satisfactory DBS check.

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