Assistant Research Software Engineer

UCL Eastman Dental Institute; City Of London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading dental research institution in London is seeking a Software Engineer to design and maintain scientific software. Candidates should have experience in web application development, particularly with React or Java, and a strong desire to learn. This role offers extensive training and benefits, including 41 days of annual leave and participation in the USS pension scheme.

Benefits

41 Days holiday

USS Pension Scheme

Life insurance (3x salary)

Cycle to work scheme

On-site nursery

On-site gym

Qualifications

• Essential to have a suitable degree or equivalent professional experience.
• Experience in web application development (using React or Java) is preferred.
• Enthusiasm to learn new technologies is essential.

Responsibilities

• Design, extend, refactor, and maintain scientific software.
• Provide expert software engineering collaboration services.
• Train researchers in programming best practices.

Skills

Web application development

React

Java

Education

Suitable degree or equivalent professional experience

Job description

About the role

Would you like to construct, improve, and maintain code used, analysis, synthesis, simulation and more?

You will design, extend, refactor, and maintain scientific software in all subject areas, providing expert software engineering collaboration services to world-leading research teams, training researchers in programming best practices, and working with scientists and scholars to build software to meet new research challenges. With such a varied job we don’t expect our candidates to know it all from the start.

It is an excellent opportunity to develop new skills, spending time to study both the research areas we support and the specialist technologies applied.

About you

For all roles it is essential that you have either a suitable degree or equivalent professional experience, according to seniority.

We are particularly looking for candidates with web application development experience ( using React) and / or Java (for our healthcare projects), but will consider any candidate with an enthusiasm to learn.

What we offer

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents we also offer some great benefits some of which are below :

• 41 Days holiday (including 27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)
• This post is eligible for USS Pension Scheme defined benefit scheme
• Staff contribute and UCL will contribute
• Life insurance is included (3x salary)
• Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
• On-Site nursery
• On-site gym
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
• Employee assistance programme
• Discounted medical insurance