Principal Platform Engineer at Neko Health (London, United Kingdom)
Neko Health· London, United Kingdom·
Role details
Neko Health at a glance
Preventive full-body health scanning built on proprietary in-house hardware and AI, co-founded by Spotify's Daniel Ek.
Neko Health runs a roughly one-hour, non-invasive full-body health scan that captures skin, cardiovascular, and blood data using hardware it designs and builds in-house, then has a doctor review the results with the member on the spot, aiming to catch disease early in people who feel healthy.
~$325M raised · latest: Series B ($260M, January 2025, at a $1.8B valuation) · backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, General Catalyst, Atomico, Lakestar
Summary
This role involves building and rolling out Neko's internal AI developer platform, focusing on architecting agentic workflows and tooling. The candidate will drive technical leadership, ensuring the platform becomes a core part of engineering operations with measurable improvements in developer speed and autonomy.
Job description
MISSION
Neko is redefining what prevention means, from treating illness when it arrives, to sustaining health before it's ever at risk. Our mission: make data-driven, preventative care accessible to more people, before symptoms appear.
In a single, non-invasive visit under an hour, proprietary technology and direct clinical care combine to deliver personalised, actionable insights. It's a team that thinks in 10x, not 10%. Every role here plays a part in building a world where prevention is the norm, and where your work genuinely helps people live longer, healthier lives.
THE ROLE
This is a 0→1 build. You'll own the architecture, build and rollout of Neko's internal AI developer platform, shaping how our engineers design, ship and operate software through agentic, AI-assisted workflows.
It's a hands-on technical leadership role. You'll be the person setting long-term direction for AI agents, tooling and the systems underneath them, while also doing the work. The expectation is that what you build gets used across teams and meaningfully changes how engineering happens here.
What You'll Deliver
In the first 6 months
- A clear architectural direction for the platform
- Initial components shipped and adopted by early teams
- Measurable improvements to developer speed, reliability and autonomy
- Genuine organic adoption across engineering, driven by value not mandate
By month 12
- A substantive shift toward agentic, engineer-led development workflows
- Platform scaled beyond pilot groups to multiple teams
- Clear ownership models for agents, tooling and supporting systems
- Long-term architecture defined and moving toward maturity
What We're Looking For
Must-haves
- Proven experience building and shipping an internal developer platform, hands-on, not advisory
- A strong track record leading agentic or AI-assisted development work that engineers actually use day-to-day
- Real backend engineering depth with production systems, recent Java or C# strongly preferred
- Experience rolling out platform tooling to 20-30+ developers with meaningful adoption
- Expertise with workflow engines such as AWS Step Functions, Azure Durable Functions, Temporal, Conductor or Dagster
- The ability to drive change through influence and credibility, not positional authority
- 10-15+ years of engineering experience with substantial platform ownership
Nice to have
- Full-stack exposure, though backend depth is the priority
- Background in product-led SaaS or organisations with strong internal developer tooling culture
Why work at Neko Health
- Mission-Driven: The company was founded to solve the fundamental problem of late-stage diagnosis by focusing on prevention. The work is presented as having a direct, positive impact on human longevity.
- Culture & Engineering: The company actively showcases a deep engineering culture where “clinical insight can become a hardware iteration overnight.” Clinicians and engineers share the same floor, fostering rapid iteration and innovation.
- Compensation & Benefits: Salaries are benchmarked via market research. Benefits include comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance, 401K, Paid Time Off, Life Insurance, Disability Insurance, CME Days, and Commuter Benefits.
- Work Model: Roles are on-site at specific clinic locations. Training for medical roles is fully paid. The interview process is designed to give candidates a feel for the culture and mission.
- Growth Trajectory: With 80+ active job postings and triple-digit growth in hiring, the company is in a high-growth phase, offering significant career development opportunities.