Senior Software Engineer, Our Future Health
Core Data Services
£85-95k
Office located in Holborn, London
Health research programme
Open for applications
Health research programme
201-500 employees
Open for applications
£85-95k
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
- We’re looking for candidates with strong experience in Python and cloud-native data processing and storage technologies, especially PySpark/Databricks, K8s, Postgres, Dagster, and Azure
- If you have solid experience in similar technologies and are looking to widen your knowledge and experience, we’d also be keen to hear from you
- We’re looking for candidates who are passionate in their work, develop consistently high-quality code, and are adept at identifying, preventing, and troubleshooting problems
- Hands-on experience of working with open source data orchestration systems such as Dagster, Prefect, or Airflow
- Solid understanding of distributed compute engines such as Spark/Databricks
- Confidence using Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm in cloud environments
- Experience building software for public cloud environments (Azure preferred, AWS/GCP considered)
- Proficient with Python package development
- 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)
- Experience with HTTP APIs including scaling and standard auth protocols
- Experience working in an agile development team following best practices like unit testing, code reviews, CI/CD and pairing using tools like Git and GitHub
- Strong experience of working with software engineering best practices including unit testing, CI/CD, code reviews, design documentation, and excellent debugging and troubleshooting skills
- Experience working in an agile development team
- Experience of operationally managing software components once live, including; observability, logging, metrics, error reporting, debugging and live incident management
- Exposure to working with sensitive personal data, GDPR compliance and ISO 27001. / Regulated environments
- Knowledge of Terraform and IaC
What the job involves
- We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join our Core Data Services squad. This small but mighty team owns our shared data release assets and is responsible for building various shared tooling that enables work across the researcher and data platform
- The tooling we build supports critical data processing and storage of high-volume health, NHS, and genetic datasets, as well as release to accredited Trusted Research Environments (TREs)
- Hands-on development of new features, iterating on existing features, addressing product- or tech debt at the right time and contributing to continuously improving the quality of the code base
- Supporting your colleagues with pairing, code reviews, feedback, discussion, and other collaborative activities that help everyone reach high standards and result in the delivery of high-quality software products
- Engage in sessions for refining requirement and formulating architectural proposals in support of upcoming initiatives
- Engage in reflective sessions such as retrospectives to offer suggestions on how we can improve and help to drive change
- Collaborate with internal squads that use shared tooling built by the squad, and other platform squads
- Participating in live operations support, monitoring live systems and quickly and effectively reacting to potential incidents
- Participation and contribution into wider engineering initiatives that look to evolve highly effective ways of working that fit for Our Future Health and work for the benefit of the Our Future Health engineering community
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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