Software Engineer

<p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Software Engineer</strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>The Role</strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">We’re hiring a Software Engineer to maintain and grow the platform that clinicians rely on every day. You’ll work across the whole stack and in both of our main repositories: the SvelteKit front end and the Python services that power document generation with large language models. You’ll take features from idea to production, keep the platform fast, reliable and cost-effective, and work closely with our Product Engineer and engineering leadership to turn the roadmap into shippable work. You’ll also help set the engineering standard for the team through thoughtful code review and sound technical judgement.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">This role suits a broad, highly capable engineer who enjoys owning problems end to end rather than staying in one layer. You’ll be comfortable moving from a Svelte component to a FastAPI service to a database migration in a single afternoon, and you’ll enjoy the detective work of tracing a slow request or getting to the root cause of a production incident. You’ll lead in some areas and learn from teammates in others, and you’ll care as much about quality, safety and maintainability as you do about shipping.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>About Us</strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Lyrebird Health is transforming the quality and accessibility of healthcare by automating clinicians’ most time-consuming tasks.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Thousands of clinicians across multiple disciplines use Lyrebird every day in environments where accuracy, safety, and time matter deeply. Everything we build is grounded in earning trust, reducing cognitive load, and delivering meaningful impact at scale.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>What you’ll do</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Deliver features end to end, from Postgres, to API services, through UI optimisations, and user experiences.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Build new clinical document types, from writing and evaluating the prompt to building the editor view and releasing it safely behind a feature flag</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Improve the speed and cost of document generation by tracing requests, finding bottlenecks, and tuning models, prompts and retry policies without compromising quality</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Build integrations with practice management systems such as Best Practice and EMIS, and with healthcare standards like FHIR and HL7</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Investigate production incidents using Sentry, CloudWatch, and Langfuse, and then identify and fix the root cause rather than just the symptoms</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Independently break down feature work into clear, shippable steps</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Review your teammates’ code and help keep our engineering standard high</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>What you’ll bring</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Strong, production-level TypeScript and modern front-end framework ex