Senior Full-stack Engineer

Danaher; Woking; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A global life sciences company is looking for a Senior Software Engineer in Woking. You will lead software development efforts, applying your expertise in UI frameworks and backend technologies. The role requires strong problem-solving skills and the ability to mentor junior team members. The position offers comprehensive benefits and a collaborative work culture.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits programs

Paid time off

Qualifications

• Mandatory hands-on experience with modern UI technologies.
• Intermediate experience in backend programming.
• Familiarity with containerization concepts.

Responsibilities

• Improve products and collaborate across the team.
• Participate in design and delivery of software functionality.
• Contribute to architectural and design work.

Skills

Hands-on experience with modern UI technologies and frameworks

Intermediate backend programming (Java, NodeJS)

AWS services and IaC technologies

Containerization and microservices using Kubernetes

Familiarity with SQL and NoSQL databases

Tools

React

Angular

Spring

Terraform

Jenkins

Job description

Bring more to life. Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences, diagnostics and biotechnology? At IDBS, one of Danaher's 15+ operating companies, our work saves lives—and we're all united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact.

You'll thrive in a culture of belonging where you and your unique viewpoint matter. By harnessing Danaher's system of continuous improvement, you help turn ideas into impact—innovating at the speed of life.

At IDBS, we provide cutting-edge software solutions that empower scientists and researchers to accelerate their discoveries. We enable them to design, execute, and orchestrate processes, manage, contextualize, and structure their data, and gain valuable insights throughout the drug lifecycle, from R&D through manufacturing. We work with 80% of the top 20 global BioPharma companies.* Our customers engage in groundbreaking work, from pioneering biological research to developing new therapies and medicines. Join us at IDBS to continuously grow and make a real impact, working alongside passionate colleagues who care deeply about our mission and each other.

*Source: Exploring the top 20 biopharma companies Q1 2024 market cap growths | TechTarget

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Role Overview

The Senior Software Engineer is responsible for improving our products and sharing and applying their knowledge across the team to build our future capabilities. They own, design and deliver software functionality and contribute to architectural, technical approach, and implementation mechanisms adopted by the team.

This position reports to the Engineering Manager and is part of the Core Capabilities Value Stream located in Woking and will be an on-site role.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• Participate in understanding and elaborating customer needs and requirements within the design and delivery process, breaking down work and providing estimates as needed.
• Contribute to architectural and design work and validation process, considering aspects including security, performance, availability, ease of deployment and any architectural guidelines, assisting with documentation as required.
• Contribute to research and assessment of new technologies. Suggest technologies, approaches, tools and alternative methodologies to your team and advocate the use of good design practices within the team.
• Develop and maintain high quality software through application of good practice, including code review, test automation, managing and reducing technical debt, collaboration with testers and other stakeholders, fixing and learning from defects.
• Leverage your expertise and specialist areas of functionality to identify and solve existing and future potential issues. Escalate as necessary and mentor junior team members in solving problems.

Essential requirements of the job include

• Mandatory hands‑on experience of programming in modern UI technologies and frameworks such as React, Angular, etc. with strong foundation in modern JavaScript and understanding of responsive design, accessibility, and cross-browser compatibility.
• Intermediate level but hands‑on experience in backend technologies like Java, NodeJS and related frameworks like Spring etc.
• Intermediate level exposure to AWS services, IaC technologies like Terraform and CloudFormation and deployment automation using Jenkins.
• Familiarity with containerization concepts and microservices using Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with SQL and NoSQL databases preferably Oracle, DynamoDB and MongoDB.

It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in:

• Exposure to relatively old technologies specifically JQuery, GWT, Angular.
• Practice of using Extreme Programming practices regularly like TDD, Pair Programming, Trunk Based Development, etc.

Benefits

IDBS, a Danaher operating company, offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether it's a health care program or paid time off, our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Check out our benefits at Danaher Benefits Info.

Join Us

Join our winning team today. Together, we'll accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow's science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life. For more information, visit www.danaher.com.