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Software Engineer (we have office locations in Cambridge, Leeds & London)

Genomics England

London

Hybrid

GBP 71,000 - 85,000

Full time

9 days ago

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Job summary

A leading company in genomic healthcare is seeking a Software Engineer to join their team in London. The successful candidate will work on developing scalable backend services in Python, focusing on innovative data processing solutions on AWS. This role not only offers a competitive salary but also the chance to be part of a mission-driven organization aiming to transform genomic research and healthcare.

Benefits

Generous Leave

Flexible working arrangements

Defined contribution pension

Learning budgets

Health & Wellbeing support

Qualifications

Strong Python skills and experience building scalable backend services.
Hands-on experience with AWS and microservice architectures.
Experience working on data-heavy or distributed systems.

Responsibilities

Writing clean, scalable Python code, following engineering best practices.
Developing solutions for processing long read data on AWS.
Designing and maintaining services on AWS with a focus on resilience.

Skills

Python

AWS

Microservices

Distributed Systems

Agile

Education

BSc in Computer Science

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Company Description

Genomics Englandpartners with the NHS to provide whole genome sequencing diagnostics. We also equip researchers to find the causes of disease and develop new treatments – with patients and participants at the heart of it all.

Our mission is to continue refining, scaling, and evolving our ability to enable others to deliver genomic healthcare and conduct genomic research.

We areaccelerating our impactand working with patients, doctors, scientists, government and industry to improve genomic testing, and help researchers access the health data and technology they need to make new medical discoveries and create more effective, targeted medicines for everybody.

Job Description

What you’ll be doing:

Working alongside aSolution Architect to think through, design and enable the future facing research cohorts end to end
Writing clean, scalable Python code, following engineering best practices
Developing working solutions to enable processing of long read data, including future facing solutions in AWS
Designing and maintaining services on AWS, with a focus on resilience and performance
Working on distributed systems that handle big data processing at scale
Building and evolving our test automation frameworks
Troubleshooting issues, working closely with colleagues
Staying up to date with the latest tools, libraries and tech approaches
Using GitLab, Jira, and Confluence to work effectively in a modern agile setup

What you’ll bring:

Strong Python skills and experience building scalable backend services
Hands-on experience with AWS, microservice architectures, and containerised environments
Experience working on data-heavy or distributed systems
Familiarity with agile delivery and test-driven development
Self-sufficiency combined with a collaborative mindset and openness to learning from others

Nice to have:

Experience with big data tools (e.g. Spark, AWS Glue, or similar)
Strong grasp of code review best practices
Some knowledge of JavaScript
Cloud Migration/AWS knowledge
Understanding/experience working with orchestration and data flows
Solution building expertise

Qualifications

BSc in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Additional Information

Salary from:£71,500

Being an integral part of such a meaningful mission is extremely rewarding in itself, but in order to support our people, we’re continually improving our benefits package. We pride ourselves on investing in our people and supporting them to achieve their career goals, as well as offering a benefits package including:

Generous Leave: 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, additional leave for long service, and the option to apply for up to 30 days of remote working abroad annually (approval required).
Family-Friendly: Blended working arrangements, flexible working, enhanced maternity, paternity and shared parental leave benefits.
Pension & Financial: Defined contribution pension (Genomics England double-matches up to 10%, however you can contribute more if you wish), Life Assurance (3x salary), and a Give As You Earn scheme.
Learning & Development: Individual learning budgets, support for training and certifications, and reimbursement for one annual professional subscription (approval required).
Recognition & Rewards: Employee recognition programme and referral scheme.
Health & Wellbeing: Subsidised gym membership, a free Headspace account, and access to an Employee Assistance Programme, eye tests, flu jabs.

Equal opportunities and our commitment to a diverse and inclusive workplace

Genomics England is actively committed to providing and supporting an inclusive environment that promotes equity, diversity and inclusion best practice both within our community and in any other area where we have influence. We are proud of our diverse community where everyone can come to work and feel welcomed and treated with respect regardless of any disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, religion, sexual orientation, or social background.

Genomics England’s policies of non-discrimination and equity and will be applied fairly to all people, regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, being pregnant or recently becoming a parent, race, religion or beliefs, sex or sexual orientation, length of service, whether full or part-time or employed under a permanent or a fixed-term contract or any other relevant factor.

Genomics England does not tolerate any form of discrimination, harassment, victimisation or bullying at work. Such behaviour is contrary toour virtues, undermines our mission and core values and diminishes the dignity, respect and integrity of all parties. Our People policies outline our commitment to inclusivity.

We aim to remove barriers in our recruitment processes and to be flexible with our interview processes. Should you require any adjustments that may help you to fully participate in the recruitment process, we encourage you to discuss this with us.

Blended working model

Genomics England operates a blended working modelas we know our people appreciate the flexibility that hybrid working can bring.We expect most people to come into the office a minimum of 2 times each month.However, this will vary according to role and will be agreed with your team leader. There is no expectation that people will return to the office full time unless they want to, however, some of our roles require full time on site attendancee.g., lab teams, reception team.

Our teams and squads have, and will continue to reflect on what works best for them to work together successfully and have the freedom to design working patterns to suit, beyond the minimum.Our office locations are: Canary Wharf, Cambridge and Leeds.

Onboarding background checks

As part of our recruitment process, all successful candidates are subject to a Standard Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. We therefore require applicants to disclose any previous offences at point of application, as some unspent convictions may mean we are unable to proceed with your application due to the nature of our work in healthcare.

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