Position: Software Engineering Lead
Reporting to: Head of Development
Contract type: Permanent
Please note we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role currently.
About Cera
Cera is a digital-first healthcare-at-home company delivering care, nursing, telehealth and repeat prescription services in people’s homes via technology. In under five years, Cera has expanded to 10,000+ staff across the UK and Germany, delivering 40,000+ healthcare visits a day, and has grown from zero to nearly $250M revenues.
Every day, Cera delivers healthcare services equivalent to 40 hospitals or 1,000 care homes, and has grown 100-fold over the past two years making it one of the fastest growing businesses in Europe.
Cera currently holds more than 160+ partnerships with the NHS and local authorities, and the company’s technology is used by 2,000+ businesses nationwide. Its technology predicts health deteriorations in patients 30-fold faster than traditional care companies, with its Professional Carers and Nurses responding to over 5,000 ‘high risk’ alerts each day.
Since the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Cera has delivered 10 million healthcare visits in people’s homes, created 10,000 jobs, and licensed its recruitment technology to the UK Government Department of Health to recruit 50,000+ people into healthcare careers.
About the role:
An exciting opportunity to join one of Europe's fastest growing health tech companies as a Software Engineering Lead.
Cera’s vision is to empower people to live their best lives, in their own home, through the use of technology, professional care and support. Joining Cera, you are contributing to making this vision a reality. The work you do promotes the dignity, respect, independence and choice of our service users, enabling you to make a real difference. We are changing the way people receive care by empowering our professional carers with insight and improved decision making. We believe technology can enable carers to do what they do best, care.
You will be leading a team of developers that develop innovative solutions that help push the boundaries of technology in the healthcare space. You will leverage the latest technologies overcoming a variety of data and engineering challenges to allow our carers to administer care that is vitally important. This role is an excellent opportunity for a candidate seeking the opportunity to drive themselves with their own enthusiasm in a startup environment and make a difference.
You'll have exposure to some of the latest tech available, developing solutions through the entire lifecycle, from ideation and hypothesis to seeing your solution in production.
What we're looking for:
The role will involve leading a cross functional team in an agile environment. You will be responsible for raising the quality of our code base, maintaining and delivering against an existing .net platform whilst contributing to the roadmap for our move to a more SOA approach.
Working closely with the product owner you will share ownership of your product area, where you will engage with stakeholders at all levels to ensure that the solution identified is fully understood and aligned to the business needs. Ensure that you identify and raise risks as soon as possible and be transparent with the team about challenges, failures and successes. The ability to document solutions in a clear and logical manner including translating business requirements into technical requirements documentation.
You will be responsible for the quality of the product and contributing to the company's development process and best practices. You will also have line management responsibility, coach and mentor the team to help with their growth and development.
The successful candidate will be a tech and data evangelist, preferably with a background in computer science or equivalent experience. Strong C# .Net development skills, ideally including .Net Core, Entity Framework Good, experience with SQL including the ability to design relational databases and tune queries. Collaborative with good communication skills, keen to learn and share knowledge.
Key Skills
? MVC, .Net Core 3.1+, C#
? Cloud Technologies eg AWS or Azure Web API
? SOLID Principles and Design Patterns
? Experience with AWS infrastructure, dockerized environments
? TDD, BDD
? Azure DevOps, Git
? Proficient working with relational and non-relational data sources eg Microsoft SQL Server
? HTML, JavaScript, JSON, REST,react.js
? To be a self-starter, bringing your own creativity, enthusiasm and real world problem-solving to a highly motivated team
- Line management, Mentor and Coaching
- Stakeholder management
- Presentation skills
- Promote best practice by leading by example
- Represent the engineering team across the business
- 1-1s
- Participate in the recruitment process
What we offer
- We offer flexible working hours and remote working arrangements
- 25 days holiday + your birthday off on top of bank holidays
- Mobile phone, laptop and full remote IT package setup to work remotely
- Company pension scheme
- Training and development for your role and future career development
- Competitive salary, discretionary bonus and long term employee schemes
- Lifeworks discount platform and Employee Assistance Programme
- Refer a Friend scheme
- Service and Recognition awards
Life at Cera
We champion diversity, inclusion and well-being to create a workplace where you value yourself and feel proud of who you are. We believe in a world where you have the freedom to explore and express yourself without judgment, no matter who you are or where you’re from. Where individuality is a source of confidence, because difference makes the world a better place. People from cultural or gender diverse backgrounds, women and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply.
Our team is made up of academics, innovators, start-up accelerators and care experts, all connected by a vision to build a better future for care through the combination of best-in-class carers, empowered by technology.
The COVID-19 pandemic has seen everybody at Cera shift to remote working. We are currently introducing a hybrid working model for specific roles. This is something we will continually review in conjunction with the changing restrictions in each of our locations. Ultimately we trust our colleagues to get the work done wherever suits them best, let us know your preferred way of working.