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Anna Freud

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201 - 500 employees

🤲 Charity

🏥 Healthcare

📚 Education

Charity • Healthcare • Education

Anna Freud is a pioneering mental health charity focused on improving the wellbeing of children and young people through research, clinical services, training, and policy work. For more than 70 years it has combined science, collaboration and clinical innovation to deliver services including school and college mental health support, bespoke clinical programmes, training for mental health professionals, and large-scale projects such as the Child Outcomes Research Consortium, the UK Trauma Council, and Autism Central. It also provides direct-access support like the Anna Freud Crisis Messenger and partners with UCL on postgraduate study and research initiatives.

📋 Description

• Design and build scalable backend services used by hundreds of thousands of businesses. • Develop customer-facing product features across ANNA's financial platform. • Use AI-assisted development tools to accelerate software delivery while maintaining engineering quality. • Build intelligent workflows, automations and AI-native product experiences. • Reverse engineer existing systems and understand complex technical dependencies. • Validate, review and improve AI-generated code before it reaches production. • Contribute to architectural decisions across our platform. • Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code. • Improve system performance, reliability and scalability. • Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Designers, Data Scientists and fellow Engineers. • Take ownership of your work from idea through to production. • Continuously improve developer experience, tooling and engineering standards.

🎯 Requirements

• Significant commercial experience developing software in Python, Java, C# or Go. • Strong backend engineering experience. • Experience designing and building scalable distributed systems. • Strong understanding of software architecture and engineering best practices. • Excellent debugging and problem-solving skills. • Experience writing clean, maintainable and well-tested code. • Comfortable working in cross-functional product teams. • Excellent communication skills. • A product mindset with genuine curiosity about solving customer problems. • Experience with any of the following would be beneficial: Python asynchronous frameworks (aiohttp, FastAPI etc.), Docker, Kubernetes or Helm, PostgreSQL or MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Flutter / Dart, AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, Cursor or GitHub Copilot, LLM APIs, AI agents or agentic workflows, Prompt engineering or intelligent automation. • Previous commercial AI experience isn't essential. Curiosity and a willingness to embrace modern engineering practices are.

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible working — focused on trust, autonomy and outcomes • Hybrid or Remote working, depending on role • Work from anywhere for up to 3 months • Support towards home working equipment • Flexible hours for caregiving responsibilities • Temporary reduced hours / phased returns when life needs it • Time off for your child’s first day of school (non-negotiable 🥹) • Employee Growth Share options — because when ANNA grows, you grow too • Wellbeing (because you’re a human first) • Trained Mental Health First Aiders • Perkbox EAP + counselling support • Online GP access & prescription service • Bupa private medical insurance • On-demand wellness content • Menopause support (policy + practical adjustments that actually help) • Financial Wellbeing (money matters — we’re ANNA after all) • Salary sacrifice pension contributions • Workplace nursery salary sacrifice • Perkbox discounts & reward points • Cycle to Work scheme • Salary sacrifice for Home & Tech • Growth & Self-Direction (invest in you) • £1k annual personal travel allowance • £1k annual personal learning allowance (including non-work learning — yes, really) • Time Off & Life Moments (the important stuff) • Enhanced parental leave • Adoption leave • Pregnancy loss & compassionate family leave • Emergency dependent leave • Belonging & Connection (we actually like each other) • Monthly team brunches • Regular team-building events • Free drinks & snacks in the office