Senior Staff Full-Stack Engineer

Healf was founded by two brothers - Max and Lestat - with a relentless drive to reshape health and wellness.

Their journey has been fuelled by hard work, intensity, and a commitment to build something transformative.

Like all of us, they’re here to make a lasting impact.

Build the Future of Wellbeing

Do Your Life’s Best Work

If modern wellbeing were redesigned from scratch, it wouldn’t live in a GP’s office or a cluttered supplement aisle. It would be digital-first, beautifully curated, and powered by data that actually helps you feel your best.

That’s what we’re building at Healf. An ecommerce platform at the intersection of personalised health and curated wellbeing. We connect customers with the world’s most effective products across EAT, MOVE, MIND, and SLEEP, and we’re just getting started.

We combine culture-shaping storytelling, cutting-edge health tech (like our new blood testing platform, Healf Zone), and a best-in-class product experience to help people build rituals that work.

Backed by investors behind Soho House, Alo Yoga, Cult Beauty, and Innocent, we’re scaling fast, and redefining how the world shops and lives well.

About Us

At Healf, we’re not just a company, we’re a movement. Founded by two brothers whose own wellbeing journeys inspired our mission to empower others, Healf is built on grit, determination, and a shared understanding of the power of wellbeing.

Our culture is grounded in The Healf Standard—five principles that define how we work and win :

• We Work Harder Than Anyone Else : Building something that improves lives takes long hours, grit, and sacrifice, but we thrive on it. We all feel energised by what we’re building.
• Never Settle : We challenge the status quo and push ourselves to be better every day. We never settle for mediocrity or the idea that something can’t be done.
• Obsession Over Talent : Talent alone isn’t enough—relentless curiosity and a drive to grow set us apart.
• The Healf Lifestyle : We live what we preach—our personal commitment to wellbeing fuels our professional productivity.
• Stronger Together : Everyone owns their lane, but we run as a unit.

With Healf Zone on the horizon, we’re entering the next phase of our journey : closing the loop on health with personalised, preventative care that unlocks longevity and optimised wellbeing. This is your chance to help build something that’s not only extraordinary, but a first of its kind.

The Role

Healf is growing rapidly across Web, Frontend, Backend and AI. As we scale our multibrand wellbeing platform toward becoming a full health-tech company, we’re looking for a hands-on Senior / Staff Engineer who wants to play a foundational role in shaping our engineering culture, systems, and product experience.

This is a rare opportunity to join an early-stage engineering team where your work will have immediate, visible impact. You’ll build core systems, influence architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and set the standard for how we ship high-quality products at speed.

Important : This role is not for someone who wants to step away from coding and only manage engineers.

It’s for someone who loves being hands-on, enjoys leading through technical direction, and wants to coach and uplift developing engineers as the business continues to unlock growth.

You’ll partner closely with our Head of Engineering to define engineering strategy, while also shipping production code and guiding the wider team.

📍Location : Open to candidates based anywhere in the UK.

Where You'll Make Impact

Technical Leadership & Architecture

Shape system architecture, service boundaries, data flows, API contracts, ADRs, UI composition, and BFF patterns.

Define engineering standards and patterns alongside the Head of Engineering.

Evolve our API and event-driven designs to support scale, reliability, and future product lines.

Break down complex problems and drive clear technical direction across the team.

Hands-On Engineering

Ship Python / FastAPI microservices and TypeScript / React (ideally Next.js) frontends.

Build robust backend services, scalable APIs, and asynchronous workflows (Kafka, SNS / SQS, EventBridge).

Use Node.js (Express / Fastify / NestJS) for BFFs or edge services where appropriate.

Back systems with PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch / OpenSearch, ensuring performance and resilience.

Contribute directly to AWS infrastructure through IaC (Pulumi / Terraform).

Team Leadership Through Mentorship

Mentor junior and mid-level engineers — helping them grow quickly through pairing, reviews, and design guidance.

Lead by example with strong engineering habits, clarity, and thoughtful trade-offs.

Play a key role in fostering a high-performing, ambitious engineering culture.

Execution & Delivery

Own major product features and technical initiatives end-to-end.

Work with Product & Design to shape scope, surface trade-offs early, and maintain momentum.

Unblock engineers quickly and drive aligned, steady progress across squads.

Communicate clearly with technical and non-technical audiences.

Reliability, Observability & Governance

Implement SLIs / SLOs and strengthen reliability practices.

Integrate logs, metrics, tracing (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus / Grafana, Datadog, Sentry).

Add frontend observability (RUM, error tracking, Core Web Vitals).

Champion AWS Well-Architected principles, least-privilege IAM, secure SDLC, and OWASP-aware web security.

Support data privacy and governance requirements (e.g., GDPR).

Greenfield & Modernisation

Build out new product domains (e.g. mobile backend, new wellbeing verticals, health-tech features).

Modernise our existing systems (e.g. migration to Next.js App Router, typed APIs, performance optimisation).

Ensure architecture scales with business ambitions.

What You'll Bring

Backend Depth

Expert Python 3.x (FastAPI / Flask).

Strong SQL fundamentals and Postgres optimisation.

Experience with distributed patterns : sagas / outbox, idempotency, retries, circuit breakers.

Strong testing discipline (pytest, integration tests, property-based testing).

Frontend Capability

Strong TypeScript & React fundamentals.

Experience with Next.js, component architecture, state / data fetching (TanStack Query).

Good UI sensibility and Figma-friendly workflows.

Solid understanding of performance (Lighthouse, Web Vitals) and SSR / SSG / ISR.

Node.js Experience

Building BFFs / edge APIs with Express / Fastify / NestJS.

API design (REST / JSON; GraphQL / gRPC / tRPC is a plus).

Cloud & Infrastructure

Strong AWS knowledge (networking, compute, storage, IAM).

Pulumi / Terraform, Docker, ECS / EKS or serverless where it fits.

Understanding of observability systems and deployment pipelines (GitHub Actions / ArgoCD).

Leadership Through Craft

You’ve led engineers before through technical authority, not by title.

You enjoy mentoring and coaching developing engineers.

You communicate clearly and make reasoned decisions.

You bring calm, clarity, and direction during complexity.

Bias for Delivery

You break down complexity and ship.

You unblock others quickly and raise the team’s velocity.

Bonus Points If You Have

Tailwind, design systems (Storybook), React Hook Form / Zod

GraphQL, tRPC, Prisma / SQLAlchemy

Elasticsearch / OpenSearch, vector search, ML-adjacent tooling

WebSockets / WebRTC, background workers / cron orchestration

Cost optimisation and performance profiling

Experience with LangChain / AI agents

Why Join Healf