Little Journey
Leeds, Yorkshire
We're an exciting stage in our growth as a digital HealthTech company, with increasing traction across clinical trials and life sciences. Over the past year, we've invested significantly in our application and data and infrastructure to support a scalable, reliable, and secure platform for the next phase of growth. We're now looking for someone to take ownership of that platform, continuing to scale the capabilities and operational maturity in a health tech environment. About the role We're looking for a Senior Infrastructure and Data Platform Engineer to own and evolve the core infrastructure & data platform, and operational reliability of our health tech product. This is a high ownership role at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, data systems, DevOps, and operational resilience. You'll be the person responsible for making sure our platform supports a great DevX experience, is secure, observable, recoverable, and audit ready, without slowing teams down. You'll have significant influence over how the platform is designed and operated. You'll work closely with backend engineers, product squads, and leadership to design systems that scale safely, support regulated requirements, and are resilient in real world operation. Our tech stack and tooling include GCP, Vercel, GitHub, Bugsnag, Sanity CMS. You will report to the VP Engineering and will be part of our broader engineering team of about 10. This is a full time role, either hybrid (Leeds) or fully remote in the UK. We cannot sponsor visas to work in the UK. What you'll do Infrastructure & Cloud (GCP) Own and operate our GCP environment (networking, IAM, compute, storage, managed services) Design and maintain infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform) Ensure environments are secure, well structured, and cost aware Act as a technical expert on cloud architecture decisions Data & Platform Own and evolve the data technology stack (data stores, pipelines, access patterns) Ensure data systems are reliable, observable, and fit for analytics and product use Define standards for data integrity, retention, access, and backup Reliability, DevOps & Observability Own CI/CD pipelines and release safety practices Design and maintain observability (metrics, logs, tracing, alerts) Coordinate incident response, post incident reviews, and remediation Ensure teams can safely deploy and operate what they build Security, Risk & Assurance Own infrastructure level security posture (IAM, secrets, network controls) Coordinate and support audits, penetration tests, and risk reviews Design and run backup and disaster recovery testing (regular, proven recovery) Proactively identify risks and lead mitigation planning Ways of working Produce clear documentation for architecture, runbooks, and operational processes Partner with engineers to embed reliability and security into everyday delivery Act as an escalation point for complex operational and infrastructure issues This role is suited to someone who can do the infrastructure technical work as well as manage the infrastructure operationally. Required Strong hands on experience running production infrastructure on GCP Experience designing and operating data platforms in production Deep understanding of cloud security, IAM, and network controls Practical experience with incident response, on call, and post mortems Experience planning and executing backup, recovery, and resilience testing Experience contributing to audits, managing penetration testing Confidence writing and maintaining infrastructure as code Confidence managing DevX tools e.g. CI/CD Desirable Experience in health tech or regulated domains is a plus, but not required if you bring strong fundamentals. Understand how to make a top class developer experience that enables high velocity with control. Have worked in regulated environments Behaviours we're looking for A strong sense of ownership: you care about developer experience, reliability, security whilst maintaining a high delivery cadence; you care about responsible data handling. Ability to manage multiple workstreams and stakeholders. Data driven: you use data and evidence to justify your decisions, thinking about now and next. Pragmatism: you design guardrails, not bureaucracy. Clear communication with both technical and non technical stakeholders. A mindset of continuous improvement and risk awareness. Strong emphasis on clear documentation and runbooks. Benefits Gross salary: £75 82K per year 28 days annual leave per year (plus public holidays) £500 annual training budget £200 home working budget (one off) Up to 6% pension match (salary sacrifice) EMI share options Flexible working with core hours Enhanced (family & parental) leave policies About Little Journey Little Journey was founded by Dr Chris Evans, a paediatric anaesthetist and researcher who witnessed first hand the impact that procedural anxiety, poor preparation, and inconsistent communication can have on patient experience, engagement, and clinical outcomes. Partnering with Sophie Copley, an expert in human centred product design, the healthcare platform was developed and demonstrated significant benefits in improving care efficiency, compliance and patient experience. It was rapidly adopted across the NHS supporting children undergoing surgery, before being expanded to support a wide variety of common procedures. Building on this initial success, Little Journey expanded into clinical trials, applying the same principles of personalised education, emotional support and engagement to research settings. Our Life Science platform, Trial Flow, supports trial participants and their families across therapeutic areas, to alleviate the burdens they face as they navigate participating in a clinical trial. The platform is now a global solution, and we work with major pharmaceutical companies. Little Journey is a Series A HealthTech start up, and we are a highly collaborative, mission driven organisation with a team of about 30 (including Product & Tech, Sales & Marketing, Operations & Delivery). We aim to change the future of personalised paediatric care, one empowered family at a time. We value honesty and integrity, trust and accountability, reflection and learning, proactive thinking, and a deep commitment to helping others. Diversity & Inclusion We encourage people from all walks of life to apply and strive to eliminate unconscious bias in our recruitment process. We do not discriminate on ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran or parental status or disability. We encourage candidates from under represented groups to apply. If you need adjustments made to our application process, to help accommodate any disabilities, please let us know at .
We're an exciting stage in our growth as a digital HealthTech company, with increasing traction across clinical trials and life sciences. Over the past year, we've invested significantly in our application and data and infrastructure to support a scalable, reliable, and secure platform for the next phase of growth. We're now looking for someone to take ownership of that platform, continuing to scale the capabilities and operational maturity in a health tech environment. About the role We're looking for a Senior Infrastructure and Data Platform Engineer to own and evolve the core infrastructure & data platform, and operational reliability of our health tech product. This is a high ownership role at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, data systems, DevOps, and operational resilience. You'll be the person responsible for making sure our platform supports a great DevX experience, is secure, observable, recoverable, and audit ready, without slowing teams down. You'll have significant influence over how the platform is designed and operated. You'll work closely with backend engineers, product squads, and leadership to design systems that scale safely, support regulated requirements, and are resilient in real world operation. Our tech stack and tooling include GCP, Vercel, GitHub, Bugsnag, Sanity CMS. You will report to the VP Engineering and will be part of our broader engineering team of about 10. This is a full time role, either hybrid (Leeds) or fully remote in the UK. We cannot sponsor visas to work in the UK. What you'll do Infrastructure & Cloud (GCP) Own and operate our GCP environment (networking, IAM, compute, storage, managed services) Design and maintain infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform) Ensure environments are secure, well structured, and cost aware Act as a technical expert on cloud architecture decisions Data & Platform Own and evolve the data technology stack (data stores, pipelines, access patterns) Ensure data systems are reliable, observable, and fit for analytics and product use Define standards for data integrity, retention, access, and backup Reliability, DevOps & Observability Own CI/CD pipelines and release safety practices Design and maintain observability (metrics, logs, tracing, alerts) Coordinate incident response, post incident reviews, and remediation Ensure teams can safely deploy and operate what they build Security, Risk & Assurance Own infrastructure level security posture (IAM, secrets, network controls) Coordinate and support audits, penetration tests, and risk reviews Design and run backup and disaster recovery testing (regular, proven recovery) Proactively identify risks and lead mitigation planning Ways of working Produce clear documentation for architecture, runbooks, and operational processes Partner with engineers to embed reliability and security into everyday delivery Act as an escalation point for complex operational and infrastructure issues This role is suited to someone who can do the infrastructure technical work as well as manage the infrastructure operationally. Required Strong hands on experience running production infrastructure on GCP Experience designing and operating data platforms in production Deep understanding of cloud security, IAM, and network controls Practical experience with incident response, on call, and post mortems Experience planning and executing backup, recovery, and resilience testing Experience contributing to audits, managing penetration testing Confidence writing and maintaining infrastructure as code Confidence managing DevX tools e.g. CI/CD Desirable Experience in health tech or regulated domains is a plus, but not required if you bring strong fundamentals. Understand how to make a top class developer experience that enables high velocity with control. Have worked in regulated environments Behaviours we're looking for A strong sense of ownership: you care about developer experience, reliability, security whilst maintaining a high delivery cadence; you care about responsible data handling. Ability to manage multiple workstreams and stakeholders. Data driven: you use data and evidence to justify your decisions, thinking about now and next. Pragmatism: you design guardrails, not bureaucracy. Clear communication with both technical and non technical stakeholders. A mindset of continuous improvement and risk awareness. Strong emphasis on clear documentation and runbooks. Benefits Gross salary: £75 82K per year 28 days annual leave per year (plus public holidays) £500 annual training budget £200 home working budget (one off) Up to 6% pension match (salary sacrifice) EMI share options Flexible working with core hours Enhanced (family & parental) leave policies About Little Journey Little Journey was founded by Dr Chris Evans, a paediatric anaesthetist and researcher who witnessed first hand the impact that procedural anxiety, poor preparation, and inconsistent communication can have on patient experience, engagement, and clinical outcomes. Partnering with Sophie Copley, an expert in human centred product design, the healthcare platform was developed and demonstrated significant benefits in improving care efficiency, compliance and patient experience. It was rapidly adopted across the NHS supporting children undergoing surgery, before being expanded to support a wide variety of common procedures. Building on this initial success, Little Journey expanded into clinical trials, applying the same principles of personalised education, emotional support and engagement to research settings. Our Life Science platform, Trial Flow, supports trial participants and their families across therapeutic areas, to alleviate the burdens they face as they navigate participating in a clinical trial. The platform is now a global solution, and we work with major pharmaceutical companies. Little Journey is a Series A HealthTech start up, and we are a highly collaborative, mission driven organisation with a team of about 30 (including Product & Tech, Sales & Marketing, Operations & Delivery). We aim to change the future of personalised paediatric care, one empowered family at a time. We value honesty and integrity, trust and accountability, reflection and learning, proactive thinking, and a deep commitment to helping others. Diversity & Inclusion We encourage people from all walks of life to apply and strive to eliminate unconscious bias in our recruitment process. We do not discriminate on ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran or parental status or disability. We encourage candidates from under represented groups to apply. If you need adjustments made to our application process, to help accommodate any disabilities, please let us know at .
Little Journey
Leeds, Yorkshire
About the role We're looking for a Mid/SeniorFullstackEngineer to join our ProductEngineering team and help build reliable, scalable products and services that power our health-tech platform. You'll work in a cross-functional and autonomous squad that owns meaningful product areas end-to-end, from understanding user and business problems, exploring solution options, shaping technical approaches with Product and Design, through delivery, to operating what you build in production. This role is not just about implementation. We're looking for an engineer who can contribute meaningfully during the definition phase: clarifying requirements, identifying risks, modelling systems, making trade-offs, and designing practical solutions before work is broken down into stories or code is written. This role is suited to someone who enjoys building product experiences across the stack with a thoughtful approach to usability, reliability, maintainability, and operational quality. We do not expect equal strength across frontend, backend, mobile, and platform engineering. We're more interested in strong fundamentals, good judgement, collaboration, and product thinking. Our technology stack and tooling include: React, Capacitor, NodeJS, GCP, TypeScript, Docker, BigQuery, Sanity CMS, GitHub, Vercel, and Bugsnag. You will report to the Engineering Manager within your product squad and be part of our broader engineering team of about 10. This is a full-time role, either hybrid (Leeds) or fully remote in the UK. We cannot sponsor visas to work in the UK. Whatyou'lldo Deliver features end-to-end: definition, implementation, testing, deployment, and monitoring Work closely with Product and Design during the definition phase to shape problems, explore options, and design practical solutions before implementation with clear documentation for technical design & decisions Break down ambiguous product problems into clear technical approaches, risks, assumptions, and implementation paths Contribute to technical discovery, product lightweight architecture/design documents, and story shaping before delivery begins Refine stories collaboratively with the squad, helping break work down into clear deliverable subtasks and technical milestones Build and maintain backend services and APIs that support core product workflows, scalable APIs and data access patterns for mobile and web applications Implement and maintain automated testing including acceptance tests, unit tests, and integration tests Ensure applications and services are observable, maintainable, and safe to operate in production Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, release processes, and operational improvements Participate in code reviews, incident learning, agile ceremonies, and continuous improvement Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code aligned to engineering standards Required Strong experience building production software systems in modern JavaScript/TypeScript environments Experience in: frontend/mobile engineering using React and related technologies backend/platform engineering building APIs and services in production environments Ability to reason through system design, trade-offs, data flows, APIs, user journeys, and operational considerations Experience contributing to technical discovery, solution design, and story shaping with Product and Design Ability to communicate proposed solutions clearly in working sessions, written design notes, or lightweight technical documentation Strong understanding of API design, frontend/backend integration, and scalable application architecture Experience working in agile product teams with collaborative story refinement and iterative delivery Experience implementing automated testing strategies including unit, integration, and acceptance testing Confidence debugging production issues and learning from incidents Experience writing clean, maintainable, and testable code Good communication skills and ability to work collaboratively within cross-functional teams RequiredTechnical Skills Experience with the following technologies: React TypeScript NodeJS API and database schema design CI/CD tooling and GitHub workflows Automated testing frameworks Desirable Experience with healthcare technology or regulated environments Experience with Sanity.io (or other headless CMS platforms) Experience with mobile app release and operational processes Technical skills: Docker, GCP serverless environments, Capacitor (or similar mobile frameworks) Behaviourswe'relooking for: Ownership and accountability: you care about product quality, real world reliability, developer experience, and responsible data handling Product and system thinking: you care about understanding the problem and designing the right solution before writing code Structured thinking: you can navigate ambiguity, assess trade-offs, and develop clear technical approaches Collaboration and communication: you work effectively across Product, Design and Engineering and communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders A mindset of continuous improvement, curiosity and risk awareness Benefits Gross salary: £75-82K per year 28 days annual leave per year (plus public holidays) £500 annual training budget £200 home working budget (one-off) Up to 6% pension match (salary sacrifice) EMI share options Flexible working with core hours Enhanced (family & parental) leave policies About Little Journey Little Journey was founded by Dr Chris Evans, a paediatric anaesthetist and researcher who witnessed first-hand the impact that procedural anxiety, poor preparation, and inconsistent communication can have on patient experience, engagement and clinical outcomes. Partnering with Sophie Copley, an expert in human-centred product design, the healthcare platform was developed and demonstrated significant benefits in improving care efficiency, compliance and patient experience. It was rapidly adopted across the NHS supporting children undergoing surgery, before being expanded to support a wide variety of common procedures. Building on this initial success, Little Journey expanded into clinical trials, applying the same principles of personalised education, emotional support, and engagement to research settings. Our Life Science platform, Trial Flow, supports trial participants and their families across therapeutic areas to alleviate the burdens they face as they navigate participating in a clinical trial. The platform is now a global solution, and we work with major pharmaceutical companies. Little Journey is a Series A HealthTech start up, and we are a highly collaborative, mission driven organisation with a team of about 30 (including Product & Tech, Sales & Marketing, Operations & Delivery). We aim to change the future of personalised paediatric care, one empowered family at a time. We value honesty and integrity, trust and accountability, reflection and learning, proactive thinking, and a deep commitment to helping others. Diversity & Inclusion We encourage people from all walks of life to apply and strive to eliminate unconscious bias in our recruitment process. We do not discriminate on ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran or parental status or disability. We encourage candidates from underrepresented groups to apply. If you need adjustments made to our application process, to help accommodate any disabilities, please let us know on .
About the role We're looking for a Mid/SeniorFullstackEngineer to join our ProductEngineering team and help build reliable, scalable products and services that power our health-tech platform. You'll work in a cross-functional and autonomous squad that owns meaningful product areas end-to-end, from understanding user and business problems, exploring solution options, shaping technical approaches with Product and Design, through delivery, to operating what you build in production. This role is not just about implementation. We're looking for an engineer who can contribute meaningfully during the definition phase: clarifying requirements, identifying risks, modelling systems, making trade-offs, and designing practical solutions before work is broken down into stories or code is written. This role is suited to someone who enjoys building product experiences across the stack with a thoughtful approach to usability, reliability, maintainability, and operational quality. We do not expect equal strength across frontend, backend, mobile, and platform engineering. We're more interested in strong fundamentals, good judgement, collaboration, and product thinking. Our technology stack and tooling include: React, Capacitor, NodeJS, GCP, TypeScript, Docker, BigQuery, Sanity CMS, GitHub, Vercel, and Bugsnag. You will report to the Engineering Manager within your product squad and be part of our broader engineering team of about 10. This is a full-time role, either hybrid (Leeds) or fully remote in the UK. We cannot sponsor visas to work in the UK. Whatyou'lldo Deliver features end-to-end: definition, implementation, testing, deployment, and monitoring Work closely with Product and Design during the definition phase to shape problems, explore options, and design practical solutions before implementation with clear documentation for technical design & decisions Break down ambiguous product problems into clear technical approaches, risks, assumptions, and implementation paths Contribute to technical discovery, product lightweight architecture/design documents, and story shaping before delivery begins Refine stories collaboratively with the squad, helping break work down into clear deliverable subtasks and technical milestones Build and maintain backend services and APIs that support core product workflows, scalable APIs and data access patterns for mobile and web applications Implement and maintain automated testing including acceptance tests, unit tests, and integration tests Ensure applications and services are observable, maintainable, and safe to operate in production Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, release processes, and operational improvements Participate in code reviews, incident learning, agile ceremonies, and continuous improvement Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code aligned to engineering standards Required Strong experience building production software systems in modern JavaScript/TypeScript environments Experience in: frontend/mobile engineering using React and related technologies backend/platform engineering building APIs and services in production environments Ability to reason through system design, trade-offs, data flows, APIs, user journeys, and operational considerations Experience contributing to technical discovery, solution design, and story shaping with Product and Design Ability to communicate proposed solutions clearly in working sessions, written design notes, or lightweight technical documentation Strong understanding of API design, frontend/backend integration, and scalable application architecture Experience working in agile product teams with collaborative story refinement and iterative delivery Experience implementing automated testing strategies including unit, integration, and acceptance testing Confidence debugging production issues and learning from incidents Experience writing clean, maintainable, and testable code Good communication skills and ability to work collaboratively within cross-functional teams RequiredTechnical Skills Experience with the following technologies: React TypeScript NodeJS API and database schema design CI/CD tooling and GitHub workflows Automated testing frameworks Desirable Experience with healthcare technology or regulated environments Experience with Sanity.io (or other headless CMS platforms) Experience with mobile app release and operational processes Technical skills: Docker, GCP serverless environments, Capacitor (or similar mobile frameworks) Behaviourswe'relooking for: Ownership and accountability: you care about product quality, real world reliability, developer experience, and responsible data handling Product and system thinking: you care about understanding the problem and designing the right solution before writing code Structured thinking: you can navigate ambiguity, assess trade-offs, and develop clear technical approaches Collaboration and communication: you work effectively across Product, Design and Engineering and communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders A mindset of continuous improvement, curiosity and risk awareness Benefits Gross salary: £75-82K per year 28 days annual leave per year (plus public holidays) £500 annual training budget £200 home working budget (one-off) Up to 6% pension match (salary sacrifice) EMI share options Flexible working with core hours Enhanced (family & parental) leave policies About Little Journey Little Journey was founded by Dr Chris Evans, a paediatric anaesthetist and researcher who witnessed first-hand the impact that procedural anxiety, poor preparation, and inconsistent communication can have on patient experience, engagement and clinical outcomes. Partnering with Sophie Copley, an expert in human-centred product design, the healthcare platform was developed and demonstrated significant benefits in improving care efficiency, compliance and patient experience. It was rapidly adopted across the NHS supporting children undergoing surgery, before being expanded to support a wide variety of common procedures. Building on this initial success, Little Journey expanded into clinical trials, applying the same principles of personalised education, emotional support, and engagement to research settings. Our Life Science platform, Trial Flow, supports trial participants and their families across therapeutic areas to alleviate the burdens they face as they navigate participating in a clinical trial. The platform is now a global solution, and we work with major pharmaceutical companies. Little Journey is a Series A HealthTech start up, and we are a highly collaborative, mission driven organisation with a team of about 30 (including Product & Tech, Sales & Marketing, Operations & Delivery). We aim to change the future of personalised paediatric care, one empowered family at a time. We value honesty and integrity, trust and accountability, reflection and learning, proactive thinking, and a deep commitment to helping others. Diversity & Inclusion We encourage people from all walks of life to apply and strive to eliminate unconscious bias in our recruitment process. We do not discriminate on ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran or parental status or disability. We encourage candidates from underrepresented groups to apply. If you need adjustments made to our application process, to help accommodate any disabilities, please let us know on .