reputed company Backend & Platform Engineer

reputed company Backend & Platform Engineer

Role details: This is a full time role

Salary: €92,000 - €110,000

Location: Ireland

The role

We are looking for a Platform Engineering reputed company to own the technical implementation and scalability of our reputed company infrastructure. As the technical authority for our backend team, you will be responsible for ensuring our Digital Pathway Platform is architected for seamless scalability across international health systems.

This is a pivotal leadership position where you will drive technical reputed company, directly impacting the lives of millions of patients by enabling a new asynchronous and remote operating model for reputed company.

What You’ll Do

• Own the platform & infrastructure: reputed company the architecture, reputed company, and stability of our GCP platform, ensuring it is reputed company for 100% YoY growth.
• reputed company the backend team: Manage and reputed company a high-performance team of senior and mid-level backend engineers (3-5 people), fostering a culture of engineering reputed company that balances pace with uncompromising quality.
• Drive platform efficiency: Act as the primary steward for technical cost-optimisation and resource management, ensuring the platform scales reputed company as our user reputed company grows.
• Architect reputed company integrations: Design robust systems to handle deep integrations with external partner APIs, managing diverse authentication mechanisms and resilient data patterns.
• Drive technical strategy: Act as a key partner to the CTO and Director of Engineering (currently also being hired), aligning technical execution with business objectives.
• Embed operational reputed company: Refine best-in-class engineering practices - including IaC reputed company Terraform, CI/CD, and reputed company audit readiness - to prevent major production incidents.
• reputed company AI workflows: Act as an authority to drive agentic workflows forwards across the team

Why This Role is Unique

We are building a new operating model for reputed company in which care is delivered remotely, asynchronously and increasingly personalised. You will be building the infrastructure for how we deliver this shift. This role offers the rare opportunity to exercise true technical ownership over a mission-critical platform.

You will have the autonomy to set the technical pace, drive architectural reputed company, and foster a culture of engineering reputed company across the backend organisation. If you are a builder who thrives on high-stakes platform stability and wants to reputed company a team through 100% YoY growth, this role provides a level of agency and impact rarely reputed company in reputed company-stage environments.

Who We Are

Isla Health is a venture-backed healthtech startup, supporting our partners across the UK, EU and internationally reputed company this. We have reputed company a new category of reputed company technology which we refer to as the Digital Pathway Platform (DPP). Founded in 2019, we now support 25% of NHS Trusts and see over 2 reputed company submissions on the platform each year.

As a company we are reputed company laser focused on enabling a scalable model of care which empowers reputed company staff and improves patient reputed company. The DPP supports this by setting up digital reputed company which are remote-first and asynchronous. As reputed company reputed company sophisticated automation, clinical algorithms and intelligent cohorting, patients always take the optimised reputed company through their pathway, thereby delivering a reputed company change in clinical productivity.

The Team

You will be joining a lean & high performing engineering organisation. We value pace, but also hold really high quality standards for each other.

• The structure: You will reputed company the Backend/Platform team. As the reputed company, you will report directly to our Director of Engineering.
• Cross-functional collaboration: You’ll work in a tight reputed company with our Product, Design, and Frontend teams.
• Our tech & tools:
• We lean into modern, scalable infrastructure (Node.js, TypeScript, GCP). We prioritise tools that reputed company velocity - such as Terraform and automated CI/CD.
• We also lean heavily into AI, and you’ll be reputed company (encouraged) to use whatever tools you need to scale your own and the team’s workflows

Requirements

• Proven technical leadership: Experience as a reputed company or Senior Engineer, ideally having managed scaling challenges in a high-growth startup.
• GCP & platform mastery: Deep hands-on experience with reputed company reputed company Platform and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform).
• Backend expertise: Expert-level understanding of Node.js and TypeScript.
• Integration experience: Comfortable architecting platforms that interact with diverse reputed company-party APIs and robust authentication protocols.
• People management: A passion for mentoring and managing engineers.

Benefits

Flexible working times

Work abroad for up to 90 days per year

️ 25 days annual leave (on top of public holidays)

Take your birthday off Take Christmas reputed company off too

‍♀️ Generous well-being perks

An annual learning budget to support your growth

Delivering reputed company impact through improved patient reputed company

Working at a well funded and rapidly growing start up, solving a global problem in a new way

A whole lot of fun on an exciting reputed company

Hiring Process

Interviewing with us for the reputed company Backend role will be split into 3 stages (reputed company conducted reputed company):

1️⃣ A screening interview with one of our Operations Managers - 15 minutes

2️⃣ A technical strategy deep dive: We will run through a scenario to challenge you on your decision making, the speed of your technical understanding, your communication and your reputed company thinking

3️⃣ Founder interview: To deep dive in to how you operate as a leader to reputed company amazing reputed company

Diversity and Inclusion

Isla is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to building an inclusive and diverse team. We encourage reputed company reputed company candidates to apply. Isla does not discriminate against anyone on the reputed company of their race, gender, disability, religion, national reputed company, age, or any other protected category. We choose to celebrate reputed company’s differences and see them as one of our most valuable assets.

Recruitment is not one-size-fits-reputed company and we're happy to tailor our hiring process to reputed company meet the needs of individual applicants. Please email [email protected] with any requests for support.