Product Engineer (Senior)
Accurx · London (Shoreditch) · GB
Software Engineering
Hybrid
physician
Demand74
Career growth76
Healthcare fit28
Remote potential55
5-year outlook
Senior product engineers in UK health tech typically command competitive senior-level compensation with a path toward staff or principal engineer roles. Growth depends on continued NHS digital investment and Accurx's product expansion; exact figures vary by location and negotiation.
Clinical license
Not required
Applicant reach
narrow
Seniority
senior
Employment type
full-time
Date found
2026-09-28
Intelligence details
Flexible work details
- Engagement type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full-time
- Eligible countries
- United Kingdom
- Profession fit
- physician
Eligibility, licensing, and location restrictions can change. Always confirm details on the source posting before applying.
Why this is worth applying to
Only worth applying if you are a clinician who is also an experienced production software engineer — the role demands full-stack depth, system design judgment, and end-to-end ownership. For clinicians without a serious engineering track record, this is not a realistic transition target.
Who should apply
Clinician-engineers (doctors, nurses, pharmacists) with computer science training and proven production software experience; health informatics professionals with strong full-stack coding skills; clinical data scientists comfortable moving into product engineering; IMG or healthcare graduates with a prior software engineering career.
CV angle
Lead with engineering impact — shipped features, architecture decisions, system reliability, and stack depth (C#, TypeScript/React, Azure, Python). Then layer in genuine clinical domain knowledge: experience working with NHS/GP workflows, understanding of triage, appointment booking, and clinical documentation, and evidence of collaborating with clinicians on product decisions. Frame any clinical background as user empathy and domain insight, not as a substitute for engineering experience.
Skills to highlight
- Full-stack development (C#, TypeScript, React)
- System and API architecture design
- End-to-end feature ownership from problem definition to rollout
- Working directly with clinicians and end users in research sessions
- Managing technical debt and codebase sustainability
- Critical evaluation of AI-generated output
- Clinical safety and reliability thinking in regulated healthcare contexts
- Cross-functional collaboration with Product, Design, and Clinical teams
Role summary
A senior product engineer at Accurx, a UK health tech company whose platform is used by 98% of GP practices. The role owns features end-to-end — from problem definition with clinicians through architecture, implementation, and long-term evolution — across a C#/TypeScript/React/Azure stack with Python for ML/AI work, including an AI-powered medical scribe.
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