Staff Engineer, Our Future Health
Research Enablement
Office located in Holborn, London
Health research programme
Be an early applicant
Health research programme
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
Office located in Holborn, London
201-500 employees
Company mission
To create an incredibly detailed picture of the UK population’s health, by recruiting up to five million adult volunteers from across the UK.
Role
Who you are
- You have led the architectural design of systems
- Knowledge and experience of building cloud-hosted consumer web applications and backend services using open source technologies such as Node.js, Ruby on Rails, Python in a start-up or scale-up environment
- Knowledge and experience of building backend systems for data movement, processing and storage and provision of services for allowing access to data by non-technical users
- Prior experience with Azure (ideally), AWS or GCP
- Comfortable working with Infrastructure as Code, ideally with knowledge of Terraform
- Knowledge of good data modelling and design patterns; in-depth knowledge of relational databases (e.g. PostgreSQL) and familiarity other types of data store (blob, document, graph)
- Expertise in modern, agile development practices like code review, TDD, CI/CD and pairing using tools like Git and GitHub
- Experience of operationally managing software components once live, including; observability, logging, metrics, error reporting, debugging and live incident management
- Experience of working with sensitive personal data
- Strong experience working and collaborating with vendors/partners
- Experience working in/with cross-functional teams consisting of engineers, product, UX and non-technical stakeholders
- Proven ability to communicate with stakeholders and audiences at different levels
- Understanding of the importance of operational, security and legal factors when designing solutions, with the ability to articulate trade-offs and make informed decisions around design and technology choices
- Experience working in small, growing organisations with a high degree of ambiguity, where flexibility is valued
- Strong understanding of software quality principles and practices
- Experience in mentoring and coaching less experienced engineers
- Comfortable in facilitating technical discussions, encouraging collaboration and providing direction
What the job involves
- We are hiring a Staff Engineer to act as a Tech Lead in our new Research Enablement squad
- This squad has been set up to further empower researchers to uncover novel and impactful health insights using the Our Future Health resource through the provisioning of tooling and resources necessary for efficient health research
- Our Future Health has a unique dataset - we have to ensure it can be used!
- This squad works closely with our partner DNAnexus who provides the core of our “Trusted Research Environment” (the web-based application through which approved researches access the Our Future Health dataset)
- As the Tech Lead you will play a key role in the collaboration on work with the DNAnexus team
- You'll lead the development/integration of products and services built internally
Application process
- We advise not delaying your application, as this advert may close early if a high number of applications are received
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Millions of people spend too much of their life with poor health, with medical professionals only able to treat diseases when symptoms start to present. But what if later-life diseases could be prevented earlier through a better understanding of public health? Our Future Health is a ground-breaking new study, aiming to collect a blood sample and a short questionnaire from 5 million members of the British public.
One of the two major strands of genomic study in the UK (the other is the Newborn Genomes Program which will be running in parallel), Our Future Health is set to become the largest health research program in the world. With funding from government and the private sector (with particular interest from pharmaceutical investors) it will cement Britain's reputation as a world leader in genomics, and is expected to lead to major advances in the fight against obesity, diabetes, heart disease and other causes of poor health.
Aside from looking for volunteers for the study, Our Future Health is also seeking engineering talent to help build the infrastructure that will gather, analyse and protect the research data. It will be exciting to see how this charity develops and what discoveries emerge from its data in the future.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
131% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Generous company pension package with employer contributions of up to 12%
- 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
- We have a lovely new office in Holborn, Central London and we offer flexible and remote working arrangements.
- We offer all employees a life assurance policy.
- Training support to help you achieve your potential.
- All employees are covered by a group income protection scheme to support them in the event of long term sickness.
Company HQ
Holborn, London, UK
Leadership
Andrew Roddam
(CEO, not founder)Was VP Data Strategy and Global Head of Epidemiology for GSK. Before that was the International Head for Amgen's Centre for Observational Research.
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