Lead Engineer

Lead Engineer

Hybrid working - based in the office 3 days a week (Holborn, London)

About us: Tendable is a venture capital-backed, series A health-tech business providing quality assurance and improvement software to health and care organisations across the globe.

Our mobile app makes auditing easier and more efficient for frontline staff, engaging them in quality improvement whilst also freeing up more of their time for patient care. Our management portal provides leadership and external bodies with assurance over the quality of health and care services and supports over 100 customers across four continents.

With 25+ years of experience in healthcare and health-tech environment, Tendable has a mission to transform quality by equipping health and care professionals with the tools and insights to continuously improve patient care. We embrace the startup and entrepreneurial approach with ambitious growth plans and are looking for like minded driven people who are passionate about making a positive impact and join us on this journey.

Role Overview:

We're hiring a Lead Platform Engineer: a hands-on senior engineer (roughly 80% building, 20% leading) who owns our platform and data foundations and leads our in-house engineering team. Two priorities define the next year: migrating data between our two live production systems, and building the data and analytics foundations behind our quality-risk scoring.

Core Responsibilities

Lead architectural decisions across backend, cloud infrastructure and data systems

Own the data model, semantic layer and cross-customer comparability behind our analytics and scoring

Lead the migration between our two live production systems, ensuring integrity and minimal disruption

Move analytics infrastructure onto a server-side foundation

Contribute hands-on to engineering delivery

Lead the in-house team of three and coordinate outsource delivery partners

Sit on the senior leadership team, representing engineering in management decisions

Join discovery and planning early, surfacing risks and trade-offs

Help scale production systems for significantly larger data volumes

Take a deliberate view on technical debt

Own infrastructure improvements: cloud architecture, reliability, CI/CD

Document system designs clearly for the wider team

What you will need

Strong Node.js experience

8+ years of engineering experience, with a track record of technical leadership

Strong GCP experience, hands-on with Terraform or equivalent

Deep backend and database expertise: relational, warehouse/lake, and non-relational

Strong data modelling skills and experience building data pipelines

Proficiency with SQL and semantic layer tooling (Cube or equivalent)

Experience integrating and reconciling data from multiple sources

Solid understanding of data integrity, security and governance

Experience designing or operating analytics infrastructure at scale

Experience with microservices, including event-driven and pub/sub patterns

Familiarity with monolithic systems and migration strategies

Sound judgement on technical debt and long-term maintainability

Strong communication skills, able to justify architectural decisions

Performance optimisation experience at scale

Nice to have:

Ruby on Rails experience

Full-stack React experience (React Router or Next.js preferred over Angular/Vue)

Healthcare, healthtech or another regulated, data-sensitive domain

Startup or scale-up background, comfortable with ambiguity

Professional Qualities:

Clear communication across technical and non-technical teams

Self-driven with strong initiative

Excellent problem-solving abilities

Team-oriented, confident representing engineering at leadership level

Commitment to code quality and best practices

Adaptable learning approach to new technologies

Your benefits:

Competitive market salary

Pension contribution matched up to 7%

Individual personal development budget plus additional 3 development days per annum

Company share option scheme

25 days annual leave

24/7 employee assistance programme

Casual dress code

Regular team socials and activities

At Tendable, we are proud to have Diversity and Inclusion at the centre of everything we do. We are committed to Equal Employment Opportunity regardless of race, colour, national origin, ethnicity, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or religion.