Full Stack Engineer

Looking for an exciting opportunity to be part of a team that is revolutionising the medical industry? Look no further than FundamentalVR! As a global pioneer in immersive VR surgical skills training and performance data, we are changing the way surgeons are trained and lowering the surgical risk to patients with our patented HapticVRTM technology.

With our unique hardware-agnostic platform, surgeons can be trained in any setting, at any time, anywhere in the world, without the need for costly and resource-intensive wet labs, animal testing, or cadavers. Join us at FundamentalVR and be part of the future of medical training and patient care!

About The Role

We are looking for a full stack developer to join our team, building applications that go towards creating our innovative surgical training platform. These range from creating new websites and features to support our operational and client needs, through building visualisations of the data we capture in our simulations, to building and maintaining our product delivery systems.

What You Will Do

• Leverage front end and back end technologies to create meaningful portals and tools
• Develop new APIs to support and enrich the features of our simulations
• Work closely with engineers, designers and other disciplines in the development team
• Participate in agile development and SCRUM
• Engage in collective responsibility for maintaining a high-quality product

What We Are Looking For

• 5+ years professional experience with strong programming fundamentals and the ability to produce high quality code
• Team leadership experience
• Interest in management and mentorship
• Experience with AWS essential (we use Cognito, Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB and EC2)
• Experience with serverless development essential
• Experience with JS Frameworks, ideally React JS
• Experience with Node.js and microservices
• Working knowledge of CI/CD 
• Understanding of NoSQL databases and document storage (DynamoDB, MongoDB)
• Knowledge of and enthusiasm for industry best practices

Good to Have:

• Familiarity with ML/AI techniques and tools, as well as proficiency in analysing and interpreting data, would be advantageous for this role
• Experience with Electron would be beneficial

Who You Are

• You understand what it means to work in a startup, this excites and motivates you
• You like to do everything to a high standard but know when to be pragmatic
• You are highly collaborative and an excellent communicator
• You proactively flag issues as they occur and openly discuss them with your manager to address problems promptly and utilise them as learning opportunities to improve and grow together as a team

• Private Healthcare
• Death in service insurance
• Enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Paternity Leave
• Perks: Access to hundreds of vouchers and discounts
• 25 days of holidays per year (which includes 3 days between Christmas and new year) + bank holidays + one extra day per year, up to a maximum of 28 days.
• Opportunity to participate in and become a key player in a fast-paced start-up environment with lots of exciting growth opportunities
• Opportunity to work with VR plus haptics, the next frontier of simulation and virtual reality

Fundamental VR operates a hybrid working model - with a need to come into the office circa 4 days a month

Diversity Is Our Strength

Fundamental VR is an equal opportunity employer. We recruit, employ, train, compensate and promote regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, disability or age.

At Fundamental VR, we have a clear vision: to be the place where a diverse mix of talented people want to come, stay and do their best work. We pride ourselves on bringing the best medical training experiences to our clients around the world, and we know our company runs on the hard work and dedication of our passionate and creative employees.

You must be a UK or EU national or have a valid visa, unfortunately we’re not able to offer visa sponsorship at this time.