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title: 'Software Engineer at Scarlet'
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# Software Engineer at Scarlet

- **Company:** Scarlet
- **Location:** Remote
- **Compensation:** €100k–€175k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-14
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/scarlet/e62ddb46-0fa6-4050-baa5-fa1860ef898c

## Job description

We pull medical technology from the future to solve human health.

Scarlet is authorised to assess and certify medical devices. We combine clinical, technical and regulatory expertise with AI agents and software so rigorous certification can keep pace with product development at the world’s most ambitious technology companies, without lowering the safety bar. Our customers have cut a year or more from their certification timelines for new AI-enabled medical devices and shortened product-update cycles from months to weeks. You’ll join a team building the infrastructure that makes these outcomes repeatable at scale.

## About the role

As a Software Engineer at Scarlet you will build software that streamlines and accelerates complex regulatory processes without sacrificing quality. Our engineering problems are plenty, and we have chosen Clojure as the tool to solve them. We aspire to shape and nurture an engineering team where every team member:

- Really cares about our customers.
- Works cross-functionally with engineers, product managers, designers, regulatory experts and other stakeholders.
- Collaborates on solving hard, important, real-world problems.
- Helps bring out the best in each other and support each other’s growth.
- Brings a diverse set of experiences, backgrounds and perspectives.
- Feels that what we do day-to-day is deeply meaningful.

We all have our fair share of experience working with startups, open source and various problem spaces. We wish to expand the team with team members who can balance our strengths and weaknesses and help Scarlet build fantastic products Our ways of working are guided by a desire to perform at the highest level and do great work.

- Low/no scheduled meetings: Keep meetings to a minimum - no daily stand-ups or agile ceremonies.
- Asynchronous collaboration: Have rich async discussions and flexible 1:1s as needed.
- High trust and autonomy: Everyone solves problems, we are responsible for our choices and communicating them with our teammates.
- Getting together: We meet a minimum of twice a year for a week at our offices in London.
- Pick your tools: We believe in engineering excellence and trust you to use the tool set you feel most productive with.

## Responsibilities

- Build products and services that our users love.
- Streamline and accelerate complex regulatory processes without sacrificing quality to enable excellent safety assessments of our customers' products.
- Continuously ship great functionality at a high cadence - and have fun while doing it.
- Build and maintain a tech stack that embraces the complex domain in which we work.

Required qualifications

- 3+ years of professional programming experience
- Professional full-stack web development experience.
- Superb written and verbal communication.
- Evidence that you think independently, creatively and from first principles.
- Evidence that you are driven to understand why things are the way they are.
- Excited to travel to the London office for one week twice a year and for your first week of onboarding.

## Preferred qualifications

- Professional Clojure experience.
- Previous experience in the health-tech or regulatory space.
- Live within +/- 2h of the UK’s timezone.

The interview process

- Intro chat with [Niclas](https://www.linkedin.com/in/niclaslovenilsson/) - 45 mins
- Technical knowledge chat with an engineer - 60 mins
- Coding session with [Niclas](https://www.linkedin.com/in/niclaslovenilsson/) - 60 mins
- Product chat with [Johnny](https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnnytreasure/) - 30 mins
- Culture fit chats with our co-founders [Jamie](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamie-cox-01458b3a/) and [James](https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-dewar-78758992/) - 30 mins each
- Referencing & offer

We want your experience with Scarlet to be a good one and we do our utmost to ensure that you feel welcomed throughout the interview process.

## About Scarlet

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Scarlet is the only Notified Body specialised in certifying AI-powered software as a medical device (SaMD) for the EU and UK markets.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A, July 2024)
- **Headquarters**: London, United Kingdom, with a second office in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: James Dewar (Co-founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Healthcare IT, Medical Device Certification, Regulatory Compliance
- **Target Customers**: B2B (Healthtech and MedTech companies building AI and SaMD solutions)
- **Mission Statement**: To hasten the transition to universally accessible healthcare by enabling customers to get their life-changing technology to the people who need it.

## Products & Services
- **EU & UK Medical Device Certification**: Acts as a Notified Body (under EU MDR 2017/745) and an UK Approved Body to certify AI medical devices and SaMD. [scarlet.cc](https://www.scarlet.cc/)
- **ISO 13485 Certification**: Accredited to issue ISO 13485 certificates for quality management systems in medical devices.
- **Continuous Iteration Support**: Provides a regulatory pathway that allows for the frequent, iterative product releases required for modern AI products, a key differentiator from traditional Notified Bodies.
- **Certificate Transfer Service**: Facilitates the transfer of existing medical device certifications to Scarlet in as little as 4 weeks. [scarlet.cc](https://www.scarlet.cc/)

## Market Standing
- **Total Funding**: USD $26.6M across three rounds (Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A).
- **Key Metric - Total Funding**: $26.6M. Key Metric - Headcount: ~57 employees as of mid-2025, with 50% year-over-year growth.
- **Notable Investors**: Atomico (led the $17.5M Series A in July 2024), Creandum (led the $7M Seed round).
- **Growth Signals**: Rapid headcount growth (+50% YoY). A surge in active job postings (up 500% year-over-year). LinkedIn follower growth of +126% year-over-year. Operates across 9 countries, indicating strong remote-first hiring capacity.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unique Market Position**: The only Notified Body in Europe purpose-built and specialised for AI and SaMD, giving it a unique regulatory and technical moat.
- **High Regulatory Trust**: Led by a board and panel of former global regulators, including the ex-Director of Medical Devices at the UK’s MHRA and the ex-CEO of BSI. This grants unparalleled credibility and deep insights into regulatory requirements. [scarlet.cc](https://www.scarlet.cc/company)
- **Impartiality Panel & Advisors**: Includes former heads of the UK’s MHRA and EU regulatory experts, ensuring adherence to the highest standards. [scarlet.cc](https://www.scarlet.cc/company)
- **Process Speed**: Claims to be significantly more efficient and faster than traditional Notified Bodies, which is critical for the fast-paced AI industry.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling Certification Capability**: Expanding its team to handle a growing pipeline of AI device submissions across the EU and UK.
- **Deep Specialisation in AI**: Continues to build expertise in niche areas like radiology, clinical decision support, and cybersecurity for medical AI.
- **Global Expansion**: Growing its influence as a key regulator for the next generation of software-based healthcare technology.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven**: The company has a strong, clear vision of transforming global healthcare, which is a powerful motivator for employees in technical and operational roles.
- **High-Growth Environment**: With 18 active job postings and a 500% increase in openings year-over-year, this is a company in a rapid scale-up phase, offering significant career growth opportunities.
- **Distributed & International Team**: With offices in London and Amsterdam and staff spread across 9 countries, Scarlet supports a hybrid/remote-friendly work culture.
- **Senior Leadership Access**: The small but rapidly growing team (57 people) means employees have direct access to top-tier leadership and can have an outsized impact.
- **Engineering Culture**: Actively hiring for technical roles (Head of Engineering, Platform team), with a focus on "problem-centricity" and high performance, indicating a mature, outcome-focused engineering culture. [scarlet.cc](https://www.scarlet.cc/careers)

## Sources
1. [scarlet.cc](https://www.scarlet.cc/)
2. [scarlet.cc](https://www.scarlet.cc/company)
3. [scarlet.cc](https://www.scarlet.cc/careers)
4. [LinkedIn - Scarlet](https://uk.linkedin.com/company/scarlet-comply)
5. [Ashby - Scarlet Careers](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/scarlet/4a2e45c2-54f3-4a7a-bee1-b71e34ec7db9)

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