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Lead Full-stack Engineer

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About FundamentalXR

FundamentalXR is the global leader in immersive surgical training. We build a high-fidelity "flight simulator for surgery" that combines VR, haptics (touch), and AI to help surgeons rehearse complex procedures in a safe, digital environment.

Our platform is used by major healthcare institutions and medical device companies worldwide. To support this, we need a robust, scalable backend and a developer experience that allows our engineering teams to move fast without breaking things.

The Role

We are seeking a highly experienced, hands-on Lead Engineer to drive the technical direction, development, and scalability of our core product platform. This role is a strategic blend of application engineering and platform enablement, ensuring our systems are robust, secure, and designed to maximise developer velocity.

You will be instrumental in elevating the day-to-day operations of our diverse technology stack and spearheading strategic initiatives like data-driven continuous delivery and operational excellence.

This position reports directly to the CPTO and leads a small team of full-stack and cloud engineers.

Key Responsibilities

Full-Stack & Application Leadership

  • Hands-on Engineering: Act as the primary hands-on engineer and team lead, being hands-on while providing technical leadership across our full-stack codebase and developer platform.

  • Architecture Ownership: Own the technical direction and service design patterns for our entire API and Cloud (AWS) platforms.

  • Cross-Functional Delivery: Contribute directly to key product features and initiatives, including full-stack development backend services (TypeScript / NodeJS / Python), and frontend applications (React and Electron apps).

Platform Engineering & Developer Experience (DevEx)

  • Developer Experience (DevEx): Continuously improve the developer experience by simplifying local setup and workflows for developers. Build tooling and templates that streamline building, testing, and deployment.

  • Continuous Delivery and Automation: Design, implement, and maintain robust CI/CD workflows (e.g., GitHub Actions) for all applications (NodeJS, React, Unity, and Electron), ensuring fast, reliable pipelines and evolving release strategies as the product grows. Develop automation to enable self-service tools for engineering teams.

  • Strategic Roadmapping: Act as the main bridge between the platform team and leadership, providing recommendations into the infrastructure/platform roadmap and communicating risks, technical debt, and opportunities for improvement.

Reliability, Security, and Operations

  • Observability & Operations: Serve as the go-to expert for operational tooling and observability (system logging, monitoring, alerting, error & performance monitoring). Lead the evolution of our monitoring, introduce tracing, and use incident learnings to drive systematic improvements.

  • Security & Compliance: Take technical ownership of security concerns on the backend, implementing security requirements (e.g., ISO27001-related work) and designing secure IAM policies, secrets handling, and access control in AWS.

  • Incident Response & Reliability: Drive and participate in incident response, helping to diagnose and resolve production issues, capturing learnings, and automating follow-up work (runbooks, hardening).

Required Skills and Experience

Full-Stack and Application Engineering

  • Advanced experience with backend web services (TypeScript / NodeJS), with a proven ability to integrate and support frontend applications (React and Electron apps).

  • Strong experience with SQL and NoSQL databases and document storage (e.g., PostgreSQL, DynamoDB).

  • Confidence in leveraging agentic AI tooling (e.g., Codex, Claude Code to accelerate development and administrative work, with a focus on validating output.

Platform & Cloud Expertise

  • Deep expertise in AWS infrastructure (including networking, IAM, security, and cost management) and significant experience with Serverless Framework.

  • Proven ability to manage and maintain infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaaC) principles.

  • Extensive knowledge of DevOps principles and hands-on experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions).

Leadership and Strategic Impact

  • Technical Leadership: Proven ability to lead design discussions, conduct code reviews, and mentor/support other engineers.

  • Service Mindset: Experience conducting user research, defining roadmaps, and tracking metrics (e.g., onboarding time, adoption rates) to treat the platform as an internal product.

  • Strong focus on security, performance, scalability, and reliability, with a commitment to upholding and promoting industry best practices.

Benefits

  • Private Healthcare for you and your dependants

  • Flexible Hybrid working

  • 25 days holiday that increases up to 30 days

  • £250pa work from home allowance to upgrade your set up

  • Get hands on with the latest immersive tech