About the Role
You will join the team responsible for our core commerce and clinical journey, including the e-commerce stack, consultation engine, patient and prescription systems, and order generation. This is a critical area where customers discover the company, complete consultations, subscribe, and receive personalized treatments at scale. The role involves working on the Node and React stack, powering storefronts for existing brands and new verticals, with significant greenfield opportunities.
Responsibilities
- Build the services behind the customer journey: APIs, data models, and services powering consultations, prescriptions, and order generation.
- Ship and own backend features from ticket to production, ensuring they remain fast, correct, and healthy.
- Write clean, well-tested, and clear code that is easy for others to understand and build upon.
- Make frontend (React) changes when necessary for feature development.
Requirements
- Solid, recent, hands-on experience building backend services and APIs in Node.js/TypeScript.
- Demonstrate a non-trivial piece of work that can be clearly explained.
- Good fundamentals in data modeling, API design, and testing.
- Ability to build defensively to ensure correctness in critical services.
- Comfortable making React changes when a feature requires it.
- Experience with relational databases (MySQL ideal).
- Some exposure to AWS/Docker is a plus.
- Clear communication skills, particularly in written explanations of decisions.
- Approximately 3-6 years of experience building software in production.
Skills
- Node.js
- TypeScript
- MySQL
- AWS
- Docker
- React
- API design
- Data modeling
- Testing
- Agentic AI tools (e.g., Claude Code, Codex)
Location
- London, UK
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 3-6 years
Benefits
- Competitive base salaries
- Meaningful equity
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Free breakfast and lunch on office days
- Snacks and drinks
- £500 annual personal development budget
- Healthcare cash plan
- Cycle-to-work scheme
- Workplace nursery scheme
- Dog-friendly HQ
- Active Culture Club
- Discounted products for employees and friends/family
About the Company
- Founded in 2018 to simplify skincare navigation by combining dermatology, pharmacy, and technology.
- Offers expert-led care accessible to a wider audience.
- Operates Skin + Me, Hair + Me, and Renew + Me, with plans for further expansion.
- Building a new category in personalized health and beauty.
- Has delivered millions of treatments and is profitable and growing rapidly.
- Expanding the engineering team to support growth.
Equal Opportunity
- Great engineers come from all kinds of backgrounds. If this resonates, even if you don't tick every box, we'd love to hear from you.
