LIMS & API Developer — Modernise Lab Software

Phenna Group; Cardiff; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Cansford Laboratories, Cardiff, is seeking an IT Software Developer to maintain and modernise the LIMS and related systems. You will focus on resilience, maintenance and API integrations, working alongside the IT Technical Lead and reporting to the Head of Laboratory Operations.

You’ll design, code, test and deploy changes through change-control processes, decouple legacy components, improve resilience, and ensure alignment with security and integration standards.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable software development experience maintaining and improving business-critical applications and integrations.
• Practical experience with a LIMS or comparable operational system.
• Strong engineering fundamentals: requirements, coding, testing, debugging, version control, documentation and deployment.
• The ability to build and support APIs and integrations, and to decouple legacy functionality safely.
• A constructive, solution-focused approach, disciplined about testing and documentation.

Responsibilities

• Maintain the reliability of our LIMS and other applications, resolving defects and delivering controlled maintenance.
• Deliver approved software development, APIs, integrations and automation to clear requirements.
• Work with users and business owners to understand the problem and agree acceptance criteria before building.
• Design, code, test, document and deploy changes through proper change-control and release processes.
• Simplify and decouple legacy components and integrate fit-for-purpose systems with the LIMS.
• Improve resilience through maintainable code, documentation and reduced key-person dependency.
• Provide application-level continuity and recovery support for the LIMS.
• Align development with architecture, security and integration standards alongside the IT Technical Lead.

Skills

Software development

LIMS experience

Engineering fundamentals

APIs & integrations

Testing & documentation

Tools

LIMS

API technologies

Microsoft Access/VBA

C++

Job description

Cansford Laboratories, Cardiff, is seeking an IT Software Developer to maintain and modernise the LIMS and related systems. You will focus on resilience, maintenance and API integrations, working alongside the IT Technical Lead and reporting to the Head of Laboratory Operations.

You’ll design, code, test and deploy changes through change-control processes, decouple legacy components, improve resilience, and ensure alignment with security and integration standards.