Location: Copenhagen
Reports to: Engineering Manager
The Opportunity
Dawn Health is a leading digital health company enabling Life Science partners to build beautifully designed, high-reliability digital products at speed and in compliance with the highest quality standards.
We are looking for a new .NET developer to join our team. You will play a key role in building solutions that improve patients’ lives and help shape the future of digital health. In this role, you will work closely with talented colleagues across disciplines – including software engineering, design, regulatory and client facing teams and collaborate with some of the world’s leading pharma companies.
Role Overview and Responsibilities
As a .NET developer (with Full-stack potential) your main responsibilities will include:
- Build and evolve modern REST APIs as part of regulated digital health products.
- Collaborate closely with Product Designers, Product Managers, and Engineers to deliver intuitive, reliable, and scalable solutions.
- Contribute technical insight into planning, estimations, and architectural decisions.
- Work in agile teams with a strong focus on quality, usability, and maintainability.
- Engage in continuous delivery of workflows and fast feedback cycles.
- Help develop state-of-the-art Backend solutions using a modern tech stack.
- Translate designs and product requirements into robust, high-quality functionality.
- Write clean, readable, and well-structured code with clear architecture and documentation.
Collaboration & Delivery
- Work closely with cross-functional teams across design, engineering, regulatory, and operations.
- Support project planning with technical input and realistic estimations.
- Participate in code reviews and knowledge sharing across the mobile team.
Quality & Craft
- Balance quality and pragmatism to ensure the best outcome for each product.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of development practices, tooling, and workflows.
- Take part in continuous delivery and rapid iteration cycles.
Your Mindset
- You are driven by purpose and want to contribute to improving the lives of patients around the world.
- You have a positive and curious mindset and see interesting challenges where others might see constraints and barriers.
- You bring an AI mindset to your work. You are eager to adopt and experiment with AI tools to write better code, work more efficiently, and solve problems in new ways.
- You can create visually clean code with logical architecture and strong documentation that is easy to read and collaborate on.
- You have solid experience turning designs into requirements, think logically about the functionality to be built, and ensure a high-quality end-product.
- You understand how to balance quality and pragmatism to ensure the best possible outcome for a given project.
- You are happy to provide valuable feedback, coach, and inspire others on the team.
- You are looking for a fun, friendly, and tolerant working environment in a purpose-driven company where your opinion matters.
What Success Looks Like (6-12 Months)
- You are a trusted Backend contributor to one or more digital health products.
- You are also a dedicated contributor to our Web projects and help the team navigate the JavaScript ecosystem.
- You deliver stable, maintainable, and well-designed backend and web solutions.
- You collaborate seamlessly with designers, backend engineers, and product teams.
- You actively contribute to code quality, architecture discussions, and team learning.
- Your work directly supports products that improve patients’ lives globally.
About You
Backend Development
- Experience working within the .NET ecosystem and C# in production environments
- Experience with ASP.NET Core, including:
- HTTP pipeline & middleware
- Dependency Injection & service lifetimes
- Experience with Entity Framework Core and SQL Server
- Understanding of SOLID principles and common design patterns (e.g. Clean Architecture and Repository pattern)
- Knowledge of API documentation using Swagger / OpenAPI
Web / Frontend Development
- Experience in Modern JavaScript (ES6+) and TypeScript
- Experience with React, including:
- SSR/SSG/ISR and choosing the right rendering strategy
- Next.js routing, API routes, and server-side logic
- Understanding of performance, SEO, and production optimization
- Knowledge of HTML5 semantics and accessibility (WCAG)
- Knowledge of CSS3 with responsive, mobile-first design
- Knowledge integrating and consuming RESTful APIs
- Knowledge writing automated tests:
- Unit, integration, and UI (Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress/Playwright)
Nice-to-haves / Bonus Points
- Frontend code quality analysis with SonarQube
- Frontend monitoring with Sentry
- Knowledge with Umbraco CMS
- Knowledge integrating telemetry & analytics tools such as Mixpanel
- Knowledge with Auth0 or Microsoft Entra External ID
- Knowledge with Azure DevOps, including:
- Source control
- CI/CD pipelines
- Work item tracking, user stories & estimations
- Knowledge in QMS-driven environments with strong documentation discipline
What We Offer
- A portfolio of meaningful products that impact patients' lives on scale.
- Autonomy, trust, and support to do the best work of your career.
- An open, collaborative environment with talented peers across engineering, design, clinical, and regulatory.
- Career growth in one of the leading digital health scale-ups, alongside world-class pharma partners.
- An array of benefits within the areas of culture, professional development, and a competitive health package.
- A social culture with running, book, winter bathing, knitting, and crossfit clubs to join
- Aaaand, probably the best lunch in Copenhagen, and the office view to go with it ☕
About Dawn Health
Dawn Health is a digital health company specializing in developing Software such as Medical Device (SaMD) and other regulated healthcare solutions. We deliver strategic consulting and development of innovative digital therapies targeting patients on a global scale.
Working at Dawn Health is more than just a job. We are not just looking for new employees. We are looking for deeply passionate souls, gifted minds, innovators, team players, entrepreneurs, and people who believe they can change the world.
We love to build things, change the status quo, and drive a new digital health agenda that will impact 1 million patients by 2030. Our passion not only includes the urge to make a difference and Code to Save Lives — we're also very focused on our people. You’ll find warm, helpful, and friendly colleagues who care about each other and the mission we’re on.
