Technology at Elder

Products & Technology at Elder

New innovations, cutting-edge solutions and incredible talent keep us right where we want to be – at the forefront.

We tailor for success

Elder’s tailored and intuitive technology grows with our customers and carers – delivering more choice and more control throughout the care experience.

We design and develop all our systems in-house, so when you join our team, you can execute with ease and speed. New innovations, cutting-edge solutions and incredible talent keep us right where we want to be – at the forefront.

We love to develop - not only code but as individuals

We’re continuously raising the bar and breaking the mold - challenging ourselves to be more efficient and find better solutions for our business. Sharing our knowledge and learning from one another is a core aspect of our tech department, and ensures we can tackle complex and challenging tasks. We enable this through organising events that bring our teams together, because together, we make everything possible.

Building for the future

Tech is at the core of our business. We design and develop almost all of our systems in-house. These range from the customer and carer apps, the elder website, our internal careOS app, and more. This enables us to control and tailor-make our systems to fit our needs, and especially the needs of our customers and carers.

We foster a strong innovation culture that empowers our people to come up with solutions, rather than being given fully-defined tasks to implement.

Want to join us in developing the next great health and social care solutions?

Our tech stack

At Elder, our Front End team plays a crucial role in providing seamless user experiences for both our internal and external customers. We specialize in utilizing popular technologies, including React, Next JS, React-query and TypeScript, to maintain and develop a variety of customer-facing and internal tools. We take pride in our ability to expertly blend popular libraries such as MUI with our own custom components to deliver an unparalleled user experience. Our team is engaged and dedicated to staying at the forefront of technology, continuously learning and pushing the boundaries of what's possible.
All our systems are deployed in the Google Cloud Platform using Kubernetes, and CircleCI for continuous integration.

Most of our systems are written in Kotlin using Spring Boot or Jooby. We have an event driven architecture based on CQRS. For the data layer we have a mix of MySQL, ElasticSearch, EventStore. We try to be pragmatic and pick the technology that suits us best for the specific task, be it integrating with a new payments provider, using automation to improve the productivity of our front-line teams, or matching our customers with the best possible carers.
We don’t plan releases. We use continuous delivery, empowering engineers to deploy their own tasks as soon as they are reviewed, tested and merged.

Meet some of our Elders

Andy Britcliffe - CPTO

The mission we have at Elder is clear, with an ageing population it is more important than ever that we reinvent what it means to age and put the control in our customers and carers hands to create quality of life and peace of mind. The Product & Technology team at Elder are motivated by this mission everyday.

The healthcare space is a deep and complex space but also represents a huge opportunity to use technology to make things simpler and faster to ensure the focus is on the care.

I very much operate off the idea of servant leadership so I am here to enable my team to be the best version of themselves which added together matches the definition of high performance. It’s centred around autonomy and accountability.

The team has the autonomy to go and try and solve the big problems and be accountable for this. Along the way, they will be fully supported and guided where they need it.

The best people, I believe, thrive in this environment, if that resonates with you, get in touch today.