Senior Software Engineering Lead for Europe PMC

European Bioinformatics Institute | EMBL-EBI; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 52,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working patterns

Private medical insurance

30 days annual leave

Relocation package

Campus life

Job summary

EMBL-EBI, based on the Wellcome Genome Campus near Cambridge, is seeking a Software Development Project Lead to guide the Europe PMC engineering team. You will shape the next generation of literature discovery and AI-powered services, leading backend and database developers in a fast-growing biomedical data platform.

You will work with product, ML and data science leads, ensuring scalable architecture, high availability and innovative capabilities for researchers worldwide.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience.
• Experience managing technical delivery in Agile environments (Scrum/Kanban).
• Experience designing, building and operating large-scale, high-availability systems handling substantial data volumes and user traffic.
• Experience managing software engineering projects from planning through delivery.
• Experience recruiting, mentoring and supporting software engineers.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with technical and non-technical collaborators.
• Excellent communication and collaborative leadership style.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical development and long-term architecture of Europe PMC and associated services.
• Define technical roadmaps to scale platform data volumes, AI capabilities and user demand.
• Lead, mentor and develop a team of software engineers across delivery and career development.
• Collaborate with product, software engineering and data science teams to deliver new features and AI-enabled services.
• Prioritise development work using Agile methodologies balancing functionality, stability and technical debt.
• Oversee large-scale data ingestion and processing pipelines from multiple international providers.
• Ensure reliability, performance and availability of production services.
• Contribute to engineering best practices, architecture and delivery processes.

Skills

Leadership

Agile delivery

Software architecture

Team mentoring

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Java

Spring

SQL

NoSQL

Solr/Lucene

REST/SOAP

UNIX/Linux

GitLab

JIRA

Job description

EMBL-EBI, based on the Wellcome Genome Campus near Cambridge, is seeking a Software Development Project Lead to guide the Europe PMC engineering team. You will shape the next generation of literature discovery and AI-powered services, leading backend and database developers in a fast-growing biomedical data platform.

You will work with product, ML and data science leads, ensuring scalable architecture, high availability and innovative capabilities for researchers worldwide.