Staff Software Engineer, Our Future Health
Genetics
Office located in Holborn, London
Health research programme
Open for applications
Health research programme
201-500 employees
Open for applications
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
- If you're looking for a new challenge, have experience working with genetic data and want to support our goals, than we'd like to see your application
- Though we don't expect you to have experience with each point, to be successful you'll need to have experience working within similar software positions and data
- Highly proficient in cloud engineering (preferably in Azure; AWS and GCP)
- Highly proficient working with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible)
- Demonstrable knowledge and experience in building solutions centred around moving and processing large amounts of data at pace and scale, using cloud-native technologies such as Kubernetes, Helm and Docker. Experience with storing, searching and filtering large scale data
- Experience in operationally managing software components/service once live, including: observability best practises, logging best practises, error reporting, debugging and live incident management. Experience using tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, New Relic etc
- Highly proficient in Python
- Experience in data modelling and design patterns; in-depth knowledge of relational databases (PostgreSQL) and familiarity with data lakehouse formats (storage formats, e.g. Apache Parquet, Delta tables)
- Experience with Spark, Databricks, data lakes/lakehouses
- Experience working with external data suppliers (defining requirements for suppliers, defining Service Level Agreements, attending joint meetings when needed)
- Experience working in an Agile development team following best practices including GitHub, code review, unit tests, TDD and CI/CD
- Experience leading software projects and developing people and teams from a technical perspective
What the job involves
- We are hiring a Staff Software Engineer to join our Data Team. This is a crucial position that will enable us to achieve project deliverables this year
- You'll support our Genetic Data Squad, looking at withdrawals, supporting pipeline development and maintenance to support our imputed releases
- Responsible for several interacting data pipelines/flows, ensuring these meet the user, business and technical requirements that have been prioritised
- Leading hands-on development of new features, including features to support the deployment of data pipelines at scale (setting up access control configurations, deploying new clusters, building and maintaining databases, deploying database replicas and more)
- Be able to create MVP development environments and prototype pipelines that can quickly and effectively demonstrate a potential solution. Where possible these would draw on existing workflows developed in industry and academia
- Anticipate problems that could occur with pipelines and take action to prevent them. Identify and describe problems when they occur and be able to develop solutions that address them for the short and long term
- Provide technical leadership to other engineers, setting standards and helping other people to meet them
- Support effective multidisciplinary working with other teams, helping teams understand the role of software engineering in Our Future Health and how to work effectively together
- Keep abreast of best practice in software engineering across industry, research and Government, and identify opportunities to bring these into Our Future Health
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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