Senior Full Stack Software Engineer
Employer: Health Data Research UK
Location: This role is remote, however you need to reside in the UK
Temporary: One fixed term for 24 months and one fixed term to March 2027
Working hours: Full time
Salary: £65,000 - £72,000 (GBP)
Closing date: 5:30pm, 20th May 2026 BST
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HDR UK requires the services of two experienced Senior Full Stack Software Engineers. A fixed term role till March 2027 to help develop the next phase of our technical solutions including the Health Data Research Gateway, Safe People Registry Cohort Discovery Service ) and future technology services. This includes how our services, standards and associated open APIs work with the wider Technology Ecosystem across a range of academic, clinical, and industry groups.
A second fixed term role for 24 months will develop a Population Research Gateway in a collaboration with Population Research UK. The portal will be a unified, scalable, and researcher-centric discovery platform that re-uses, adapts, and extends the modular open-source codebase and infrastructure of the Health Data Research Gateway to serve the UK’s longitudinal population-study (LPS) ecosystem. This standardised LPS metadata register will collate and harmonise population cohorts through a single new intuitive portal, enabling for the first time researchers and clinical trial specialists to assess UK wide LPS data availability to rapidly discover and access datasets.
The successful candidate will be part of a multidisciplinary team that develops an over-arching interoperable infrastructure to ensure that UK LPS data assets are Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reuseable (FAIR) and accessible for research, innovation and clinical trials. The chosen applicant will be expected to work within an Agile software development team, providing development of infrastructure and services to deliver scientific insights, that improve health and healthcare of the UK and worldwide populations.
The successful candidate will be expected to provide individual contribution as a full stack hands-on developer, work within the Gateway and wider Technology Ecosystem development teams, carry out code review & quality checks and document as required.
Main responsibilities
Software Development:
Full Stack software development
Developing all different aspects of technical products including Content Management, Web portals, APIs, Visualisations and Integrations
Working to an agile methodology
Documenting code, code reviewing with the team and maintaining high quality, performant and testable code
PSR standards and optimisations surrounding code
Champion entire feature additions, from feature breakdown to user stories and implementation
Technical Expertise:
Troubleshooting and supporting development issues as they arise working with the team and escalating to Technical Programme Director as necessary
Demonstrable ability to collaborate and guide external partners on how to utilise, and integrate with, our new developments
Training and Capacity building:
Maintain and share awareness of current best practices in software development, open science, reproducibility and agile methodology
Engage with national and international bodies to identify opportunities for collaboration and support to upskill the HDR UK community
Community and Engagement:
Identify and initiate new activities to sustain and diversify the HDR UK technical community
Demonstrate technical leadership by voicing concerns about proposed solutions and offer alternatives where appropriate
Be a technical voice for developments of proofs of concept to completion, including design and documentation of new systems
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