Software Engineer, 9 month FTC

<p style="min-height:1.5em"><em><strong>Location:</strong> UK Based, Remote-first (with monthly travel to London)</em></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">At Unmind, we're here to create <strong>better mental health.</strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">We believe mental health should be a source of strength, not struggle – for people, teams, and entire organisations.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">We combine science, technology, and human care to help companies like Uber, Disney, Major League Baseball, and the NHS improve mental health and drive performance.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Now we’re looking for more brilliant people to help us do it.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>🚀 Our Values</strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">We’re building a company where ambition and empathy go hand in hand.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Outpace the rest</strong> – <em>Move fast. Deliver excellence.</em></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Stronger together</strong> – <em>We go further, faster, together.</em></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Client first</strong> – <em>We win, when our clients win.</em></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>🌈 Inclusion &amp; Belonging</strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">We’re building a place where everyone feels seen, heard, and supported – and where difference is celebrated.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">If you need adjustments during the process, tell us when you apply or email <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" ---------- style="min-height:1.5em">Learn more about how we hire and our commitment to equity in our <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://unmind.notion.site/Unmind-Candidate-FAQs-b2f30c27bc57453b8edaee099aad4596"><strong>Candidate FAQ →</strong></a></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2><strong>🎯 The Role — Software Engineer (Full Stack)</strong></h2><p style="min-height:1.5em"><em>We're looking for a Software Engineer to join us on a 9-month parental leave cover. You'll ship features that directly help the employees of our enterprise clients find the right support at the right time.</em></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><em>We're using Claude Code throughout the SDLC, exploring how we evolve our development practices to leverage AI where it meaningfully helps. This is a great opportunity for someone who wants to deepen AI-assisted development skills in a team that's investing in them.</em></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"><strong>You'll ship features end-to-end.</strong> Break initiatives into deliverable slices, design solutions, write the code, and see them through testing, deployment and monitoring in production.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>You'll own the design for what you deliver.</strong> Choose pragmatic approaches that fit our existing architecture, write RFCs where appropriate, and make sensible trade-offs without needing extensive guidance.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>You'll keep things reliable.</strong> Respond to incidents and bugs in your team’s domain, improve observability where it's lacking, and uphold the security and performance commitments we make to clients.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>You'll improve what you touch.</strong> Tackle tech debt, refactor and upgrade dependencies where it unblocks delivery or reduces risk.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>You'll embed AI into how you deliver.</strong> Use Claude Code throughout your workflow - scoping, designing, coding, reviewing, documenting - and contribute to our collective learning by sharing what's working back to the team.</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2>🌟 <strong>About You</strong></h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">In the spirit of equity and continuous growth, we invite you to remove education from your CV. Qualifications are not a factor in our decision-making. However, some experience in the following is important for this position:</p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>You're ready to get a lot done.</strong> You’re a backend leaning Engineer, but comfortable moving across the full stack which includes TypeScript, React, GraphQL, Node.js, Python, Golang and SQL. You don't need hands-on experience with every tool; we're more interested in strong software engineering fundamentals and curiosity to learn. You enjoy problem solving from first principles, pick up new context fast, and ship impactful changes to customers regularly.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>You know what good looks like.</strong> You understand what it takes to build reliable products for clients. You build with performance, security and observability at the forefront rather than as follow-ups, and your code is simple, well-tested and easy for others to change.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>You're comfortable with ambiguity.</strong> You're happy tackling problems without a clear definition or obvious solution, and find the leanest viable path forward.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>You make deliberate trade-offs.</strong> You understand the impact of trade-off decisions made today. You choose lean over perfect when it's the right call, and you're explicit about what's being deferred and why.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>You’re comfortable with AI-assisted development practices.</strong> You use Claude Code (or similar tools) as a core part of how you develop features - applying curiosity and judgement to know where it accelerates and where it doesn't.</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em">Tip for candidates: If you’re unsure whether to apply – do. We know great people don't always tick every box.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2>💚 <strong>Life at Unmind</strong></h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">We believe wellbeing and performance go hand-in-hand – and we build our environment to support both.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">A few highlights:</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">✅ Private medical for you &amp; your family</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">✅ Equity in Unmind</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">✅ Generous gender-neutral parental leave</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">✅ 25 days holiday + birthday + celebration days</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">✅ Revive &amp; Thrive Days – company-wide Friday off monthly</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">✅ Flexible working + early Friday summers</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">✅ Remote-first within the UK, with monthly in-person meet-ups and access to a London co-working space</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">✅ Annual learning budget + learning leave</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">✅ Free weekly therapy or coaching sessions</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">✅ Wellbeing support via WellHub &amp; Bippit</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">See all benefits on our <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://unmind.com/unmind-careers"><strong>Careers Page →</strong></a></p><hr><p>Compensation: £70K – £87.5K</p><ul><li> • £70K – £87.5K</li></ul><p>Find more <a href="https://www.arbeitnow.co.uk/english-speaking-jobs">English Speaking Jobs in United Kingdom</a> on Arbeitnow</a>