Lead Software Engineer — AI for Protein Annotation

EMBL EBI; Hartford; On-site; GBP 73,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading biological science data resource is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to enhance and maintain its computational annotation systems. In this role, you will design scalable solutions, improve the annotation process, and build AI-driven applications. Successful candidates will have at least 3 years of software engineering experience, proficiency in Java and Python, and familiarity with modern technologies like Kubernetes and CI/CD pipelines. The position offers a competitive salary and is based in the UK.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Proficiency in Java (including Spring Framework) and Python.
• Solid understanding of software development processes and design principles.
• Strong knowledge of relational databases and search engines.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain new solutions for annotation systems.
• Enhance pipelines by migrating to scalable workflow systems.
• Contribute to infrastructure modernization with containerised deployments.
• Develop LLM-based applications such as text summarisation.
• Work closely with scientific biocurators to ensure accurate results.

Skills

Java

Python

Software development processes

Relational databases

Microservices architecture

RESTful APIs

Asynchronous messaging systems

Unix commands

Version control (Git)

CI/CD pipelines

Containerisation (Docker)

Kubernetes deployment

Communication skills

Tools

Apache Spark

MongoDB

Nextflow

High-performance computing (HPC)

Job description

A leading biological science data resource is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to enhance and maintain its computational annotation systems. In this role, you will design scalable solutions, improve the annotation process, and build AI-driven applications. Successful candidates will have at least 3 years of software engineering experience, proficiency in Java and Python, and familiarity with modern technologies like Kubernetes and CI/CD pipelines. The position offers a competitive salary and is based in the UK.