Backend Engineer (d/f/m)

At Heartbeat we are helping hospitals to measure the most important data point in healthcare, quality of life.
Our product helps doctors in over 200 medical centers and registries across Europe, deliver the best possible care to their patients. With Heartbeat, hospitals can easily and effectively record patient reported outcomes.

“Every physician-patient consultation and every morning team meeting starts with discussion of the patient-reported outcomes in Heartbeat”
PD Dr. med. Aldemar Andres Hegewald, Head of Spine Surgery, Ostseeklinik Damp

If helping patients, solving hard problems and working alongside a team of talented people sounds like you, then come join us and help us make a difference to the quality of life of patients.

Life as a backend engineer at Heartbeat

• As a backend engineer you will work as part of the product team. Your work will involve close collaboration with the chief product officer, chief technology officer, product designers and engineers.
• Also as an engineer you will work closely with junior engineers helping them to develop. You will review code changes and collaborate with other engineers to ensure we have a high code quality.
• We normally work in 2 week cycles (sprints) but occasionally we also work in a more flexible Kanban format.
• Testing plays an important part of our product. As a medical product it’s important our product is safe. You will ensure our product is safe, through a mix of unit and integration testing.

Tech stack

We are using a combination of containerised TypeScript and node.js or Golang applications. This is hosted either in our datacenter or, for some of our customers, on premise. Additionally we use the standard software to help us plan and deploy our product: Gitlab, Jira, and Confluence.

• You can demonstrate your backend engineering capabilities working with TypeScript and node.js or Golang and you are comfortable using either
• You can demonstrate your ability in leading the development and deployment of containerised applications
• Experience working with relational databases (we use Postgres) and GraphQL
• Experience working with gRPC and protocol buffers is a plus
• You are comfortable writing testable software
• You are an effective communicator in English
• You are excited by change and the idea of working in a fast paced environment

What you can expect from the product team

• We don’t build products alone. When you are here, you are part of the team. We will support you and challenge you.
• Someone to pair with. We love pair programming.
• Difficult and interesting problems. Building software for healthcare is hard, you can expect plenty of amazing problems to work on.
• Ample opportunity for growth, monthly company reviews, 6-month performance reviews and bi-weekly 1-1s with your manager.

What you can expect from Heartbeat

• An attractive and fair package: time off to recharge, 30 days vacation a year & public holidays, attractive compensation, remote first from within Germany or work from one of our offices in Berlin or Cologne.
• Permanent contract. Flexible and family-friendly working hours.
• A growing company! It’s an exciting time and we are looking for more fantastic people to help us expand our product.
• Plenty of opportunities to get to know the rest of the team. We know it’s hard to join a company remotely, we make extra effort to get to know each other.
• Collaborative growth: You will work in a creative work environment with short decision-making paths and a high degree of autonomy to develop your own ideas. A personal as well as team budget can be used to support your personal and professional development.
• Backing from top European venture capital: Whether it's HV Capital, btov or HTGF - we are proud to have some of the most renowned European VC funds on board.

Apply now, we are looking forwards to meeting you!

What counts for us is that you fit into the heartbeat family and that you help to improve product. We are a diverse team and we are looking forward to meeting diverse applicants during the recruiting process, for that reason we encourage all genders to apply for this role. To keep the focus on the interesting facts we appreciate application data without photos, information about marital status, pedigree or other for us irrelevant aspects.

Still not sure? Read more about us here https://heartbeat-med.com/en/about-us

Since our founding in 2014, heartbeat has become the leading German provider for the digital capture, management and analysis of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs). We currently work with nearly 230+ medical centers, research projects and registries and have already digitally supported over 270,000+ treatments.

With offices in Berlin (HQ), Cologne and London, the combined passion and power of over 50 passionate team members, we work every day to improve the quality of life of patients.