Full Stack Software Engineer, Francis Crick
£50k
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Biomedical research institute
Open for applications
Biomedical research institute
1001+ employees
Open for applications
£50k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To discover without boundaries.
Role
Who you are
- Strong, demonstrable experience as a Python software engineer, writing production-quality code that is maintained and used by others*
- Demonstrable experience writing and maintaining automated unit tests, with an understanding of how testing supports software correctness, refactoring, and long-term maintainability in production systems
- Experience developing and supporting applications in Linux/Unix environments, including confident use of the command line
- Experience working with containerised environments (e.g. Docker and/or Singularity) for development and deployment*
- Experience maintaining or supporting deployed services or internal platforms, including troubleshooting and operational support
- Evidence of understanding good software engineering practice, including OOP, version control (GIT), unit testing, documentation and release/deployment processes (CI & CD) and a commitment to web standards*
- Experience with other technologies/languages, front end development and workflow orchestration or scheduling systems (desirable)
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a hands‑on Full Stack Software/Python Engineer to play a key role in developing and supporting software that underpins scientific research and operational systems across the Francis Crick Institute
- You’ll work closely with two principal software engineers to design, build and maintain production‑grade tools used daily by scientists and operations teams
- Operating at the intersection of science, engineering and operations, you’ll collaborate with stakeholders to shape requirements and deliver scalable, practical solutions
- Your work will include developing reporting tools, dashboards, APIs and shared Python libraries that support institute‑wide workflows
- In this thriving, multidisciplinary team,you will contribute to software and AI driven tools that accelerate scientific discovery, while working closely with research groups, technology platforms and the enterprise IT organisation
- Design and develop high-quality, maintainable software to meet project needs and deadlines
- Support operations across the Crick by developing and maintaining supporting software such as libraries and APIs
- Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders to define project requirements and technical specifications
- Peer review and testing – by working closely with colleagues to maintain quality standards and provide code reviews
- Ensure the security of software and applications - by developing in accordance with established security principles
- Ensure ease of maintenance and sustainability - by developing, testing, releasing and documenting software using agreed best practices
Application process
- Application closing date: 1st of March 2026 at 23.59pm
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The Francis Crick Institute was founded in 2015 through the merger of the MRC's National Institute for Medical Research and CRUK's London Research Institute. Its mission is to push the boundaries of our understanding of how life works, and it is the largest single-site biomedical research institute in Europe.
One of the Institute's strengths is its ability to collaborate extensively with external research groups, boasting partnerships in more than 90 countries. These collaborations, however, pose data protection challenges due to the need to transfer vast amounts of sensitive information across borders. The Institute has addressed this by developing its own Trusted Research Environment toolkit, which allows remote teams to share data securely and compliantly in the cloud.
The institute secured £1 billion in funding back in 2022, and is maximising its effectiveness through the BRIDGE network and investments in AI and machine learning. A notable example is Google’s subsidiary DeepMind establishing a research lab within the institute to enhance biology and genomics research.
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Insights
10% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Jul 2022
$1.3bn
GRANT
Total funding: $1.3bn
Company benefits
- 28 days of holiday each year, plus three additional days (usually taken over Christmas) and bank holidays
- Defined contribution pension scheme, with the Crick contributing between 3% - 16% of salary
- Life assurance
- Season ticket/car parking loan
- Annual leave purchase
- Childcare support allowance
- Back-up dependent care
- Discounted annual gym membership
- Bike to Work scheme
- Payroll giving
- Shopping discounts
Company HQ
Somers Town, London, UK
Leadership
Paul Nurse
(CEO)The first Director and Chief Executive of the Francis Crick Institute. Was previously President of Rockefeller University in New York. In 2001 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine as part of a team that discovered the role of protein molecules that control the duplication of cells.
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