About this Software Engineer role at Scarlet
We pull medical technology from the future to solve human health.
Scarlet is authorised to assess and certify medical devices. We combine clinical, technical and regulatory expertise with AI agents and software so rigorous certification can keep pace with product development at the world’s most ambitious technology companies, without lowering the safety bar.
Our customers have cut a year or more from their certification timelines for new AI-enabled medical devices and shortened product-update cycles from months to weeks. You’ll join a team building the infrastructure that makes these outcomes repeatable at scale.
About the role
As a Software Engineer at Scarlet you will build software that streamlines and accelerates complex regulatory processes without sacrificing quality. Our engineering problems are plenty, and we have chosen Clojure as the tool to solve them. We aspire to shape and nurture an engineering team where every team member:
Really cares about our customers.
Works cross-functionally with engineers, product managers, designers, regulatory experts and other stakeholders.
Collaborates on solving hard, important, real-world problems.
Helps bring out the best in each other and support each other’s growth.
Brings a diverse set of experiences, backgrounds and perspectives.
Feels that what we do day-to-day is deeply meaningful.
We all have our fair share of experience working with startups, open source and various problem spaces. We wish to expand the team with team members who can balance our strengths and weaknesses and help Scarlet build fantastic products Our ways of working are guided by a desire to perform at the highest level and do great work.
Low/no scheduled meetings: Keep meetings to a minimum - no daily stand-ups or agile ceremonies.
Asynchronous collaboration: Have rich async discussions and flexible 1:1s as needed.
High trust and autonomy: Everyone solves problems, we are responsible for our choices and communicating them with our teammates.
Getting together: We meet a minimum of twice a year for a week at our offices in London.
Pick your tools: We believe in engineering excellence and trust you to use the tool set you feel most productive with.
Responsibilities
Build products and services that our users love.
Streamline and accelerate complex regulatory processes without sacrificing quality to enable excellent safety assessments of our customers' products.
Continuously ship great functionality at a high cadence - and have fun while doing it.
Build and maintain a tech stack that embraces the complex domain in which we work.
Required qualifications
3+ years of professional programming experience
Professional full-stack web development experience.
Superb written and verbal communication.
Evidence that you think independently, creatively and from first principles.
Evidence that you are driven to understand why things are the way they are.
Excited to travel to the London office for one week twice a year and for your first week of onboarding.
Preferred qualifications
Professional Clojure experience.
Previous experience in the health-tech or regulatory space.
Live within +/- 2h of the UK’s timezone.
The interview process
Intro chat with Niclas - 45 mins
Technical knowledge chat with an engineer - 60 mins
Coding session with Niclas - 60 mins
Product chat with Johnny - 30 mins
Culture fit chats with our co-founders Jamie and James - 30 mins each
Referencing & offer
We want your experience with Scarlet to be a good one and we do our utmost to ensure that you feel welcomed throughout the interview process.
