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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 five and coordinate outsource delivery partners
Sit on the senior leadership team, representing engineering in management decisions
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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
Private UK health-tech company providing digital quality-audit software to health and social care organizations.
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