Surghive
Contract Lead Full-Stack Developer — HealthTech MVP
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Surghive | Contract / Freelance | UK | September 2026 – March 2027
Surghive is looking for an experienced Lead Full-Stack Developer to take the technical lead on the development of our new web and mobile MVP.
Surghive is an AI-enabled professional learning, training-intelligence, and collaboration platform for surgeons and surgical care practitioners. We are building a platform that brings together professional profiles, personalised education and CPD, clinical content, training-gap intelligence, courses, community, and AI-supported recommendations.
We are looking for a strong developer who can help us turn our product direction and Figma concepts into a functional, deployable product.
The role
You will take primary responsibility for the technical delivery of the MVP, working closely with Surghive's clinical, product, and technical team.
This is not a project where we intend to hand over a finished technical specification and disappear. We have defined the product direction, key functionality, and UI, but expect the successful developer to help us refine detailed requirements during an initial discovery/mobilisation phase and then work iteratively with us through the build.
You will lead areas including:
- Technical architecture, database and API design
- Repositories, environments, and CI/CD
- Authentication, permissions, and security
- Core web application, backend, and database development
- AI/LLM-enabled functionality and semantic search
- Clinical content ingestion and personalisation
- Training Gap Intelligence using surgical curriculum and eLogbook data
- Integration of third-party services
- Coordination with the Full-Stack / Mobile Developer
- Automated testing, deployment, and technical documentation
- Beta support, defect resolution, and final technical handover
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The MVP includes:
- Professional user accounts and verified surgical profiles
- Professional community/feed functionality
- Personalised clinical content
- Courses, webinars, and CPD pathways
- Adaptive Course Discovery
- Training Gap Intelligence based initially on the JCST General Surgery curriculum
- AI-enabled recommendations and semantic retrieval
- A catalogue of Surghive VR training
- Administration functionality
- Web, iOS, and Android experiences
This is an MVP/beta build, not a finished commercial-scale platform. The priority is to create a strong, maintainable technical foundation with the key user journeys working end-to-end.
Who we're looking for
You should have strong experience delivering modern full-stack applications and be comfortable taking genuine technical ownership of a product build.
We are particularly interested in experience across:
- Modern full-stack web application development
- API and database architecture
- Cross-platform mobile development
- Authentication and permissions
- Secure handling of user data
- Cloud deployment
- Git-based development and CI/CD
- Automated testing
- AI/LLM integrations, semantic search, embeddings, or related technologies
Experience in HealthTech, MedTech, regulated environments, professional learning, SaaS, or AI-enabled products would be particularly valuable, but is not essential.
Our current working technology proposal includes Next.js, TypeScript, React Native/Expo, Node.js, PostgreSQL, AWS, and modern AI/semantic-search technologies. We are not wedded to this stack and welcome technically justified alternatives.
We are also AI-positive but do not prescribe how you develop. Use of AI coding tools is not a requirement.
How we work
We're a small, hands-on team and are looking for someone who enjoys working collaboratively rather than disappearing with a specification for six weeks.
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We expect frequent communication during active development, working versions shared regularly for feedback, and a pragmatic approach to the inevitable decisions and trade-offs involved in an MVP build.
The successful developer will work alongside a second Full-Stack / Mobile Developer and Surghive's product, clinical, design, and technical contributors.
Contract
- Contract / freelance engagement
- Approximately 34 targeted Lead Developer days
- Work distributed across the project rather than a continuous full-time engagement
- Mobilisation expected from 2 September 2026
- Final completion and handover: 5 March 2027
- Fixed-price milestone proposal requested, supported by underlying day assumptions
- Applicants should also provide a day rate for agreed additional/change-control work
- UK-based or able to provide services compliantly to a UK company
- There may be an opportunity to continue working with Surghive beyond the funded MVP phase, subject to performance, funding, and mutual agreement.
How to apply
Please send a concise application covering:
- Relevant experience and examples of products you have personally built
- Your role/contribution to those products
- Your proposed technical approach
- Availability between September 2026 and March 2027
- Your assessment of whether the MVP can realistically be delivered within the anticipated resource envelope
- Your proposed commercial approach
- Key assumptions or delivery risks
- Relevant references, where available
Shortlisted applicants will receive further product information and may be invited to discuss the architecture, key workflows, and proposed delivery approach.
Application deadline: 5pm, 28 August 2026.
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