Senior Software Engineer (FullStack)

🐦 About Birdie

At Birdie, we’re reimagining care for older adults. We’re building the technology that powers the future of home healthcare, empowering care teams with tools to deliver better, more dignified care, and enabling older people to thrive in their own homes for longer. Our all-in-one solution powers millions of care visits every month, equipping care providers with the tools they need to deliver exceptional, efficient care.

We’re not here to tinker at the edges. We’re here to radically transform a broken system.

That’s why we’ve built an all-in-one platform that supported over 60 million care visits and enabled care for 116,000 individuals in 2025, and we continue to grow our impact. We’re scaling fast, but staying true to our purpose. That’s why we’re proud to be a B Corp, using business as a force for good.

Founded in 2017, Birdie is backed by world-class investors like Index Ventures, Sofina and Omers. In 2023, we ranked #6 in the Deloitte Fast 50, making us one of the fastest-growing tech companies in the UK. You can check out more about our impact and recognition here.

But speed isn’t the point. Impact is.

⚡️ Your mission

Rostering is one of the most complex and consequential parts of what we build at Birdie. It's the system that decides how thousands of care workers spend every minute of their day, which means when it works it powers safe, on-time care for older adults receiving support at home. When it doesn't, people miss visits. We've grown beyond what our first version can support, and we're rebuilding it as Rostering V2: the operational backbone we want our partners to depend on for the next ten years.

As a Senior Full Stack Engineer, your mission is to own and ship Rostering V2 features end-to-end. You'll work alongside a Staff IC and four senior engineers, writing TypeScript and React on the frontend, Node.js (and Go as you ramp) on the backend, partnering with Product to translate care-management requirements into reliable software.

Beyond your immediate delivery, you'll have room to shape Rostering V2's architectural direction and raise the engineering quality bar within the squad. You'll carry your share of the out-of-hours support rota, because the systems we build run twenty-four hours a day for the partners who depend on them.

Six months in, here's what good looks like: You've shipped meaningful Rostering V2 features end-to-end. You're carrying the on-call rota with confidence. The codebase looks better because of your work: cleaner standards and sharper tests. The squad trusts your judgement on architectural decisions, and so do you.

🦸‍♀️ How you will contribute

Own full-stack feature delivery for Rostering V2

You'll take features from technical design through to production, shipping work that holds up under the volume and complexity of real care delivery, independently and with minimal oversight.

Partner with Product to shape what gets built

Rostering epics are complex, full of edge cases and trade-offs. You'll work closely with Product to break them down, surface what's hard, and influence what we build and in what order, not just how. The partnership is real, not procedural.

Contribute to engineering quality and architectural direction

Through code reviews, TDD practice, technical design input, and setting standards within the squad. You'll have a voice in how Rostering V2 evolves and what good looks like for the engineers who follow you. As you build domain expertise in Rostering, you'll lift the engineers around you.

Ramp on the Rostering domain quickly

Healthcare and care operations have their own logic and constraints. You don't need a background in either, but you do need to ramp fast. Most engineers are shipping real work within their first 30 days.

Carry the out-of-hours rota

You'll shadow incidents alongside experienced engineers first, so you're never on call before you're ready. By 90 days you'll be on the rota, handling incidents and bugs with confidence. The systems we run touch live care delivery, so we take reliability and incident response seriously.

🤩 You'll thrive here if...

You bring strong full-stack TypeScript and React experience and have built and operated scalable Node.js APIs. You're confident across the full stack, from database schema to frontend component.

You write tests first. TDD is a default part of how you work, not an afterthought, and you can articulate why it matters.

You take loosely defined requirements and drive features to stable production deployment without constant oversight. You unblock yourself, flag risks early, and follow through. You work closely with Product and communicate technical trade-offs clearly to non-engineers, shaping direction rather than just implementing it.

You enjoy working in older codebases as much as building new ones. Rostering V2 isn't a clean greenfield rebuild. You'll spend real time understanding V1, deciding what to carry forward, and refactoring as you go.

Go experience is a strong plus. If you haven't used it yet, you're keen to learn it, and you have a track record of picking up new technologies quickly.

🧠 Imposter syndrome is real, and we don't expect you to tick every box. If you're excited about our mission and think you could make a difference here, we want to hear from you.

🌈 What you’ll get from us

We believe people do their best work when they’re supported, trusted and inspired. Here’s how we build a world-class employee experience:

💸 Compensation

• Competitive base salary, reviewed against benchmarks annually

• Generous stock options - because we’re building this together

• Bi-annual performance cycles with individual compensation reviews

🧠 Learning & Growth

• Annual personal learning budget and access to training, coaching and mentorship

• Time and space for growth - you set your development goals, we back them

🏡 Flexible Working

• Hybrid working. Preferably London-based with 1 day per week in our London HQ (UK-remote considered for exceptional candidates).

• Budget to set up your home workspace

• Regular in-person meetups, socials and offsites

🏖 Time Off

• 33 days holiday (25 days + public holidays)

• Extra day off on your birthday (use it whenever you like!)

• Company shutdown between Christmas and New Year

• 2 volunteering days each year to give back to causes that matter

👶 Family-first Policies

• Industry leading paid primary and secondary caregiver leave

• 5 paid days for fertility treatments for those who need it

• Private health insurance with AXA

• Wellbeing perks via Happl (gym discounts, mental health support, and more)

🚲 Other Perks

• Cycle to work scheme

• 4% employer pension contribution when you contribute 5% (UK)

• A deeply human, radically transparent culture

❓Why Birdie?

Because you want to do meaningful work that improves lives - and grow at speed while doing it. We’re building more than a product - we’re building a movement. A movement to show that tech, when built with empathy and integrity, can change lives.

We’re a team of entrepreneurs, dreamers, and doers. Join us to shape the future of care, work alongside ambitious, kind people, and help reimagine how society cares for its older adults. We dream big, act fast, and work collaboratively with one goal in mind: to create a world where we all age with confidence.