Asssociate Software Engineer

United by our vision. Leading with empathy. Pioneers in curiosity.

Healios exists to bring exceptional healthcare to anyone, anytime, anywhere. By digitising entire clinical pathways, we enable children, adults and their family members to receive and seamlessly transition between clinical services from the comfort of their home.

Innovation is at the heart of what we do as we strive to be the leading provider of neurodevelopmental and associated mental health services. We are a remote-first organisation that embraces diversity in all its forms and offers flexibility for our people. You can find out more about us by clicking here!

“Great minds don’t think alike” 

From our talented tech teams to our standout clinical expertise, we bring great minds together to build more accessible services. Our software supports clinicians, young people and families through some of the most important moments of their lives, so it needs to be reliable, secure and built with care.

Our values

Our values shape how we build, collaborate and care for everyone we support. We look for people whose own values align with them:

• Do the right thing
• Act with integrity
• Be a great listener
• Deliver your best work
• Be truly courageous

About the role

As an Associate Software Engineer at Healios, you’ll join a mission-led, collaborative team that values clarity and simplicity. You’ll contribute to real product features from your first weeks, with the support, mentorship and space you need to deepen your craft and grow into ownership.

Your work will contribute to one of our three strategic areas: improving the experience of the clinicians who use our platform, making client operations sustainable as we grow, or giving our partners the confidence to expand their work with us.

You’ll work closely with experienced engineers, analysts and tech associates, who are colleagues from across clinical, operations and commercial, on problems that improve the lives of young people and families. We’ll support you to write maintainable code, understand the full lifecycle of software, and make thoughtful decisions as part of a cross-functional team.

What you’ll do

• Build and improve real, user-facing features alongside senior engineers and tech associates
• Write clean, readable, well-tested code, learning our standards and patterns as you go
• Take small tasks and slices of work from start to finish, raising blockers early
• Take part in code reviews and pairing, giving and receiving feedback openly
• Grow your understanding of our architecture, asking good questions about how things fit together
• Share progress clearly and often in a remote, asynchronous team

Our stack

We build primarily in Ruby on Rails, but we hire for the engineer rather than the framework. Strong full-stack fundamentals matter more to us than years on any one tool.

• The app: Ruby on Rails modular monolith, ViewComponents, Turbo
• Testing: RSpec
• Database: PostgreSQL
• Hosting and infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes, Docker
• Background jobs: Sidekiq
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions
• Monitoring: Grafana, Sentry

Need to have

• Some experience, up to ~2 years building and maintaining web applications (commercial, internship, bootcamp or substantial personal and open-source work all count)
• Comfortable working full-stack in a modern web framework. Ruby on Rails ideally, though strong fundamentals in a similar stack are welcome and capability to learn
• A working grasp of MVC, automated testing, version control (Git) and the basics of web security
• Clear, thoughtful written communication and a real appetite to learn by doing
• A product mindset, with curiosity about how your work affects real users
• A commitment to safeguarding and ethical practice, as we build for children, young people and families

Desirable

• Hands-on experience with parts of our stack, especially Ruby on Rails, Hotwire, Turbo and Tailwind
• Early exposure to cloud, infrastructure or DevOps-adjacent work (AWS, Docker, CI/CD, observability), which you’ll have room to grow here
• Curiosity about using AI tools to produce better work, not only faster work
• A history of seeing tasks through to completion and contributing through prototyping

If you don’t meet every point above, please apply anyway. We are more interested in how you think and learn than in a perfect checklist, and we would be glad to consider your application.

What’s in it for you 

• 33 days holiday (including Bank Holidays)
• Paid Christmas closure (between Christmas and New Year)
• Birthday Leave - paid day off on your birthday
• "Life Leave" - 2 days of extra leave to take when things you can't plan for happen
• Enhanced family friendly policies including a phased return to work and receive full pay
• Paid company sick pay scheme
• Contributory Pension Scheme (6% matched)
• Employee Discount to access a private assessment (for ADHD, Autism or a combined assessment) through our service for your child
• Fully personalised flexible benefits package including; Health Cash Plan, Life Assurance, EAP Service, Will Writing, Critical Illness Cover, employee discount and savings portal, Cycle to Work Scheme, Tech Scheme and Wine Club!
• Work from anywhere for up to 6 months per year policy
• Free access to co-working spaces
• CPD/Growth day per year, plus personal development allowance to invest in your growth Bespoke Healios Training and on demand learning including schedule of monthly CPD for clinicians

A note on your application

We use AI at Healios and we’re glad you might too. But please apply as you: we read every application, and a personal one, written in your own words and about your own experience, will stand out more than something clearly generated against this advert. Tell us who you are and why Healios, because that is what we are looking for.

How to apply

Apply through the link on this page with your CV and a short note about why this role and Healios appeal to you. A formal cover letter is not needed.

What to expect: an initial conversation with someone from the team, a practical stage that reflects the kind of work you would actually do rather than abstract puzzles, and a final conversation with the people you would be working alongside. We aim to keep this to 2 stages over around 2 weeks, and we will let you know where you stand at each step. A real person reads every application.

Accommodations

If you need any adjustments to take part fully, let us know. We are glad to make them for the application, interviews and onboarding, and we are always learning about different accessibility needs so we can adapt. Healios is a Disability Confident Committed Employer, committed to inclusivity and equality for people with different needs in the workplace.

Healios is a Disability Confident Committed Employer and  we are committed to inclusivity and equality for people with different needs in the workplace.

DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION

“Do the right thing” is one of our core Healios values. And building a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels supported is absolutely the right thing to do. Whether we’re developing a new service line or enhancing one of our products, we need people with different skills, backgrounds, identities and perspectives to ensure our innovations will work for the children and young people we are here to serve. By embracing diversity, we can deliver better care experiences and outcomes, while tackling the inequalities in healthcare provision that exist today.

SAFER RECRUITMENT & PRE- EMPLOYMENT CHECKS 

Healios ensures that supporting people to be safe is at the heart of our work and a key priority across all areas of the organisation, We will do our absolute best to keep the people that we support, safe from harm. This starts with our recruitment processes.

As part of our pre-employment checks, all employees of Healios will be asked to have a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. Dependent on your role within the business, this will either be an Enhanced or Basic. A Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) check will be required. You will also be asked to provide two professional references as a minimum.