Senior Full Stack Software Engineer

at  Ardens

COMPANY BACKGROUND

Ardens is an exciting and fast-growing health tech company that has a passion for improving patient care through better use of technology. We are a clinically led organisation of over 130 people, including GPs, nurses, clinical pharmacists, developers, account managers, product specialists and customer support.

Our two products, Ardens Clinical and Ardens Manager, are used by 87% of GP Practices across England and provide the following benefits for patients and the NHS:

• Improve patient safety: Ardens can help prevent medication errors, missed diagnoses, drug contraindications and other possible issues via clinical decision support templates, searches, reports and alerts.
• Timely diagnosis: Clinicians can use Ardens alerts, reports and dashboards to assist with the quicker identification of patients who should have a clinically coded diagnosis.
• Save NHS time: Ardens saves time through building and designing resources which provide both best practice and contractual guidance. Commissioners are supported with streamlining the local contract process including contract signing, reporting, data submissions and monitoring payments.
• Improve quality of care: Ardens templates, reports and dashboards follow the same structure and align with national and local guidance. This ensures a high level of care can consistently be delivered to patients across the country.
• Enable data-driven insights: Ardens dashboards provide data trends and analysis which can be monitored at scale (e.g. ICB and national level). This can inform clinical decision making, practice management and quality improvement.
• Provide benchmarking & performance comparison: Practices can identify areas for improvement through Ardens Manager benchmarking functionality. Primary Care Networks (PCNs) or groups of GP practices can also effectively allocate resources and incentivise care.
• Increase contractual income: Ardens assists GP Practices and PCNs with delivering both local and national contract requirements including QOF, NCD (including IIF), SMI Health Checks and NHS Health Checks. Organisations can better manage achievement of incentivised targets resulting in higher income.

OVERVIEW

We are looking for a Senior Full-Stack Engineer to join Ardens Manager and help us change how primary care uses analytics to deliver better patient care. The product deals with complex and large datasets and has hundreds of components and methods in both the front end and back end. It is an exciting and challenging system to work on.
You would ideally have a strong knowledge of PHP and Laravel, with experience delivering complex APIs handling large volumes of data, along with experience in modern front-end development with JavaScript frameworks, as well as working within a modern DevOps environment (GitHub, CI, AWS, etc). Knowledge and experience with large data systems is also useful. In the first year, this role will have a heavier back-end focus than front-end, but both elements will be worked on.
If you are an aspiring, talented, software engineer, and you thrive working in small teams, tackling challenging problems that make a real difference to users, then this role is perfect for you.
This is a full-time role, based at our office in Fordingbridge, Hampshire with the flexibility of some working from home. You will need to be office-based at least two days per week, and more to begin with.

EXPERIENCE

• Laravel/PHP (3+ years)
• Vue.js (1-2+ Years) or another modern JavaScript framework with willingness to cross-train
• MySQL (3+ Years)

SKILLS

• Good time management
• Ability to work as part of a team
• A desire to squeeze as much performance as possible out of the system
• The ability to problem-solve

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop efficient solutions to complex problems
• Investigate and debug issues and implement solutions
• Work with a team to plan and write specifications for new features
• Handle large sets of data in an efficient way
• Aid in the mentoring of more junior members of the team