Software Engineer junior Mid-level

Type: Trainee
Region: London

About TidalSense

TidalSense is a respiratory technology company with a mission to transform the diagnosis, monitoring and management of chronic respiratory conditions, such as asthma and COPD. The company has ambitions to enable a population-scale change in respiratory care through global deployment of its technologies, including in resource-poor countries. TidalSense is about to launch the first-of-its-kind rapid AI-driven (software medical device) diagnostic test for COPD which uses the company’s unique, patented, sensor technology embedded in the N-Tidal device. 

We are seeking a junior to mid-level software engineer (graduate applicants welcome) to work on the company’s medical device solutions (both current and future). We are at an exciting phase in our journey as we transition from a start-up to a scale-up. You will be joining a passionate, socially-motivated and multi-disciplinary team covering engineers, scientists, clinicians, designers, product and usability specialists. This is a unique opportunity for a driven and autonomous individual to work on a set of challenging and innovative technologies, and to see their efforts deliver impact in the real world and change people’s lives.

We are seeking someone who is comfortable working in a fast-paced, agile, and diverse team environment, and who is also committed to our mission to revolutionise respiratory medicine.

We care about our people and want to make TidalSense one of the best places to work. Our open, inclusive, and diverse culture matters to us more than anything else.

Job Purpose

To develop front-end software as part of our software team on our portfolio of regulated software. Software includes server-side code (providing an endpoint for N-Tidal handsets), front-end application development and maintenance, and software tools to support commercial and operations teams. This role will specialise in front-end development but includes scope to work on back-end and database code too.

Key Duties & Responsibilities

• Write code to implement new features on both existing applications and greenfield projects.
• Develop software within a regulated (medical device) environment including rigorous documentation and testing.
• Working closely with our design team to analyse requirements to propose technical solutions and implementations.
• Contribute to the software development team by attending daily stand ups, performing pull request reviews, and engaging in team meetings.
• Creation and maintenance of technical documentation including design specifications and verification plans/test cases.

Skills & Competencies

Essential

• Experience using JavaScript and TypeScript.
• Practical experience developing a client-side application.
• Experience working within a software development team.
• Experience with a frontend web framework.
• An eagerness to learn new technologies.
• Resilience and flexibility to work in a busy and changing / dynamic environment with ability to deal with workload peaks and troughs
• Ability to organize and prioritize work.
• Ability to work as part of a team.

Desirable

• Experience with Vue.js.
• Experience and knowledge of developing server-side code in Python, ideally using Django.
• Basic understanding and practical experience using SQL.

Qualifications & Experience

Essential

• Degree in computer science, engineering, or a related discipline, or 1-2 years of professional software development.

Desirable

• Masters in STEM or another technical subject
• Medical device development experience.
• Experience working in an early-stage or growth phase company.

Other Requirements:

• Legally eligible to work in the UK

Note to Applicants:

• We read all applications carefully, including free-text answers in evaluating your application. Please make sure you spend some time answering these questions carefully.
• Please answer questions truthfully. Dishonesty is fundamentally against our values.
• We appreciate that some candidates may hesitate to apply because they may feel that they might not meet the required criteria or be competitive enough. If this is you, please don’t shy away from applying – we would like to hear from you.

• Flexible working hours to support your work preferences
• Hybrid working based at least 1 day / week (but ideally more)
• Beautiful award-winning Cambridge UK office stocked with quality drinks & snacks
• Work from abroad for 1 week per year
• Buy / sell up to 5 days annual leave
• Generous individual personal development budget + dedicated development days
• Mental Health support: wellbeing support and free 24/7 access to qualified counsellors and advisors
• Wellness budget
• Coaching and mentoring – in partnership with Horizon37 who provide team coaching and mentoring.
• Team events and celebrations
• 25 days annual leave + 8 public holidays
• Pension: TidalSense contributes 5% of qualified earnings (actively looking to increase this)
• Annual performance-based bonus
• Discretionary share options scheme