Staff Software Engineer

Staff Software Engineers 1 x Core Systems 1 x Product Engineering Location: London (Hybrid, 3 days onsite) Salary: £130,000 - £170,000 + Benefits Want your engineering work to contribute to breakthroughs in cancer research, drug discovery and next-generation healthcare? I'm working with a mission-led technology company building advanced software, AI and automation platforms that help accelerate scientific discovery. This is a genuine tech-for-good opportunity where the systems you build can have a real-world impact beyond traditional software products. We're hiring for multiple Staff Software Engineers across the platform, including opportunities focused on: Core Systems - Distributed systems - Event-driven architecture - Platform engineering - Real-time execution systems - AI and automation platforms Product Engineering / User Experience - TypeScript and React - Product architecture - Complex workflows and visualisation - AI-enabled user experiences - Building software used in highly technical environments This role probably isn't for you if... - You're looking for a pure people-management position and want to move away from hands-on engineering - You prefer straightforward CRUD applications over complex technical and distributed systems challenges - You want highly defined requirements rather than helping shape technical and product direction What you'll be doing - Leading technical direction for a key product area - Designing and building highly scalable software platforms - Influencing architecture and engineering standards - Mentoring senior engineers whilst remaining hands-on - Working across Product, Platform, AI and Design teams - Helping define the future direction of both the technology and engineering culture Tech Environment - Go, Python - TypeScript, React - GraphQL - Kubernetes - gRPC - Event-Driven Architecture - NATS - OpenTelemetry - AI / Agentic Systems We're looking for engineers who - Have experience building complex software products at scale - Possess strong architecture and system design skills - Lead through technical influence rather than pure people management - Enjoy solving difficult engineering challenges Why join? - Work on technology helping accelerate scientific and healthcare breakthroughs - Tackle genuinely difficult engineering challenges involving AI, automation and distributed systems - Join a high-calibre engineering culture with significant autonomy - Shape the architecture of a rapidly evolving platform - Contribute towards technology supporting advances in areas such as cancer research, life sciences and healthcare innovation If you're a Staff Engineer looking to solve meaningful problems, influence the direction of a world-class engineering organisation and build technology that can help drive scientific progress, I'd be keen to speak.