Job Code PG1 – Senior Programmer – NOW FILLED

BUGS Bioscience Ltd; Indiana (PA); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

BUGS Bioscience Ltd is seeking an experienced programmer to join the founding engineering team and drive the first release. You’ll flesh out a skeleton built with ClojureScript, React, Docker, and Elastic Beanstalk to deliver a scalable serotype surveillance platform.

You will work with scientists to expand data management and visualization capabilities, emphasizing robust code, automated testing, and elegant UX.

Qualifications

• 5+ years commercial software experience and agile development
• Interest or experience with Clojure as central to the product roadmap
• Experience with building scalable software and automated testing

Responsibilities

• Translate bare-bones prototype into a full platform with data management and visualization features
• Collaborate with scientific teams to deliver a robust, scalable solution
• Lead the development effort and contribute to architectural decisions

Skills

5+ years experience

Agile development

Automated testing

Tools

Docker

Elastic Beanstalk

React

Ruby on Rails

Java

Scala

Clojure

Node.js

Job description

We are looking for an experienced, world-class, programmer to join our founding engineering team and take a leading role in the delivery of our first release.

You’ll be joining at a time when we have just completed a walking skeleton which combines, ClojureScript, React, Docker, and Elastic Beanstalk to deliver a preliminary implementation of our serotype surveillance pipeline.

It will be your job to put flesh on these bare bones and, through discussion with our scientific collaborators, build out the new platform to include advanced data management and visualisation facilities underpinned by robust, efficient and scalable software.

You will probably have 5+ years commercial software experience and a deep knowledge of agile software development combined with a passion for automated testing. You’ll be excited by software that is elegant and good looking and you’ll want your users to feel the same way.

Knowledge of more than one software stack (Ruby on Rails, Java, Scala, Clojure, Node.js,) would be ideal. In particular experience with Clojure, or a very strong desire to move into it, is critical as this will be central to our first solution to support trials in Australia and South Africa later this year.

Our team is split between Tooting, SW17 and Cambridge. Home working is a possibility however close proximity to these locations is desirable in order to enable regular meetings and rapid communication as the business evolves.

In return we will offer a competitive salary, but more importantly the opportunity for you to apply your experience and enthusiasm to create a software platform that breaks new ground, both in terms of technology but also in its contribution to global health.