Staff Software Engineer (Backend)

Hey! Thanks for taking the time to read through one of our open roles. We’re looking for an exceptional Staff Software Engineer (Backend) to join our Research & Development team and we hope this could be a match made in heaven. 

Who is Peppy?

Our mission is to fix healthcare & wellbeing. We do this by supporting the employees of our global clients, including JP Morgan, Disney, Meta, Nvidia, Microsoft, Sony, Clifford Chance, Wells Fargo, Bloomberg, and over 200 others.

Having already revolutionised the employee benefits sector with our innovative clinical products – such as the world’s first menopause benefit – we are now building the world’s most advanced benefits management platform. Think of us as a “Deel for Benefits” – a rocket-ship opportunity with a mission that truly matters. The global benefits sector encompasses employer-funded pensions, critical illness insurance, private healthcare insurance, and many other categories. This is a trillion-dollar TAM with weak, incumbent competition and almost no AI-first startups stepping up to the challenge.

We are a Series B company with $56m in funding to date, operationally cashflow positive, and with secure access to additional capital for accelerated growth. Join us for the ride of your life.

What will a day in the life of our Staff Software Engineer (Backend) look like?

Play a critical role in shaping, architecting, and implementing our next generation benefits platform, leveraging personalisation, experimentation, and AI/ML methods, for a business that truly makes a difference in people’s lives Apply your expertise in Python and other backend languages to deliver world-class applications as a leader, contributor, and mentor on an agile, cross-functional team Act as the key bridge between data processing and the backend Contribute effectively across our tech stack (backend, data, ML) to routinely deliver user and business impact  Write clean, performant, and tested code, documented for the benefit of your peers and beyond Participate in peer review and ensure high quality of deliverables via version control and CI/CD Collaborate closely with product and design to define new features, functionality, and requirements by channelling your user empathy and personal experience to help craft a shared vision Embody a growth mindset, working to advance and acquire skills with support from peers and leaders Identify and act on opportunities to improve user happiness, impact the business, and simplify our technical surface area Understand and support business functions beyond engineering, spanning our clinical, service delivery, sales, and marketing teams 

Our dream Staff Software Engineer (Backend) will have:

Experience influencing and building impactful products from scratch, ideally for an early stage startup A history of thriving in the ambiguity and uncertainty of nascent projects, and relishes the opportunity to shape the future Previously operated at Staff Engineer, Principal Engineer or Tech Lead level and loves to mentor and develop other software engineers and lead from a technical perspective 7+ years of professional experience building and architecting customer-facing Web Applications with a combination of Python and other backend languages like Go, C++, Scala Plenty of experience crunching data at scale, with expertise in data processing, data pipelines and data flows Experience with Google Cloud (preferred) or AWS, plus Kubernetes and Kafka ideally Familiarity with data engineering / ETL, machine learning, and AI methods Excellent communicator who can simplify complexity to share your work with the whole team and the wider company First-hand knowledge what scale and quality look like in a larger technology company Proven ability to learn, investigate, experiment, prototype, and iterate A deep understanding of coding best practices and a dedication to creating efficient, scalable, and maintainable code An insatiable desire to quickly release and iterate – you are happiest when the things you build go out in the wild

Still looking for more intel? Here’s some other really cool things about Peppy which might be helpful:

We raised a $45mil Series B fundraise January 2023, led by Albion VC We’re one of Europe’s fastest growing HealthTech scale-ups  We are remote-first, headquartered in the UK with 100+ employees across the UK, USA and Europe We're proudly B-corp certified and mission-led  We are rated one of the Top Startups to work for by LinkedIn, Sifted, Tempo and Flexa

Much like us, we know you’re into perks and benefits, so here’s a list of ours:

Access to Peppy: You can receive free unlimited access to the Peppy app to use our Menopause, Fertility, Baby, Women’s Health or Men’s Health services Health & Wellbeing: You will receive Private Medical Insurance through Vitality, including VitalityGP, optical, dental and hearing coverage Financial Wellness: You have access to your own confidential financial wellbeing coach and resources, through Bippit Parental Leave: We have a generous Enhanced Family Leave policy, whether you or your partner are giving birth, going through surrogacy or adoption Pension: We offer an up to 5% employer pension contribution scheme through Cushon Holidays: Peppy employees in the UK get 25 days holiday per year, plus bank holidays Remote-First: We're a remote-first business, rather than remote-only. So you can choose between working from home, or in our Holborn office Socials: We encourage our employees to join our in-person team events and socials to build stronger connections within your team. If you live outside London, your travel expenses for these events are on us too! Tech: New joiners receive a company MacBook delivered in time for your first day

Package on offer for our Staff Software Engineer (Backend):

Salary of £130,000 to £150,000/annum dependent on your experience Stock options grant to enable you to share in our future collective success

Equality & Diversity:

Peppy's mission is to help people in life's most challenging journeys. We pride ourselves on being an equal opportunity employer, committed to equality and diversity amongst both our employees and prospective applicants. We ensure that all applicants are treated equally and fairly throughout our recruitment process.