Scientific Software Engineer – Biotech Data & Cheminformatics

Nxera Pharma; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

26 days annual leave

Private Medical Insurance for employee

Pension contribution

Dental and optical reimbursement

Gym membership subsidy

Discretionary cash bonuses

Job summary

Nxera Pharma in Cambridge is seeking a Data & Cheminformatics engineer to collaborate with R&D, understand workflows, identify gaps, and design solutions that reduce friction and cycle times.

You will build web-based tools, automate workflows for chemical and biological data, enable data curation, and support decision making. This role combines software with biotech data assets and requires strong communication with stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Degree in computer science, chemistry or biology.
• Experience as full-stack software engineer in a production environment.
• Knowledge of relational databases, data modelling and SQL.
• Experience with software engineering best-practices including version control, CI/CD, testing.
• Experience working with stakeholders across disciplines in life-science settings.

Responsibilities

• Develop web-based tools to handle and track requests/submissions and streamline lab operations.
• Automate workflows to store, transform and visualise chemical, pharmacological, structural, biophysical and ADMET data for project decisions.
• Provide tools to enable curation and annotation of experimental data by lab scientists.
• Automate manual/semi-manual processes to speed up day-to-day tasks for experimentalists and data managers.
• Maintain and develop scientific software and database systems to maximise data value.

Skills

Full-stack engineering

SQL & data modelling

CI/CD

Stakeholder engagement

Biotech domain knowledge

AI/ML tooling familiarity

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Bioinformatics/Chemistry

Tools

RDKit

Prefect

Pipeline Pilot

Knime

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Nxera Pharma in Cambridge is seeking a Data & Cheminformatics engineer to collaborate with R&D, understand workflows, identify gaps, and design solutions that reduce friction and cycle times.

You will build web-based tools, automate workflows for chemical and biological data, enable data curation, and support decision making. This role combines software with biotech data assets and requires strong communication with stakeholders.