Senior Backend Engineer, Bactobio
£85-100k
4-5 days a week in office (Central London)
Uncovering solutions from biological dark matter
Open for applications
Uncovering solutions from biological dark matter
21-100 employees
Open for applications
£85-100k
4-5 days a week in office (Central London)
21-100 employees
Company mission
To create a safer and greener world by harvesting valuable metabolites from biological dark matter.
Role
Who you are
- We would love you to have experience with some of the tools we use, but it's not a requirement
- Instead, we're eager for you to have the desire to learn and develop yourself
- So at a minimum, we would be looking for you to demonstrate proven experience in working in a modern tech stack using Python and, ideally, SQLAlchemy or Django
- If you are passionate about delivering code, and you love solving complex problems and working in a team with a strong sense of mission is something you crave, then we would love to talk to you
What the job involves
- Software is critical to our scientific endeavours. You’ll join the growing software team that builds and enhances the application and infrastructure used by our scientists to accelerate their search for novel compounds
- The application gives the lab scientists a holistic view of the scientific pipeline, ensuring that data is captured, processed and visualized in a way that optimises the flow of scientific samples from team to team
- Work closely with dozens of world-class lab scientists, bioinformaticians, data scientists, and robot automation engineers, turning their requirements for research functionality into user-friendly features
- Our stack is Python 3, SQLAlchemy, FastAPI, RQ, MySQL with a frontend in Remix, React, TypeScript, CSS Modules with OpenAPI-based API client generation for TypeScript
- We emphasize code quality, employing reviews on top of static analysis tools (pyright, ruff, ruff format) with plenty of tests in place to maintain a high-quality codebase
- Delivering reliable, tested, typed, clean Python code to improve our application
- Modelling our scientific domain in code
- Working alongside subject-matter experts and quickly absorbing their knowledge of our scientific pipeline
- Optimising the infrastructure that we run our application & scientific pipelines on
- Communicating well in cross-functional teams alongside bioinformaticians and data scientists to ensure that our backend aligns with business priorities
- Having a very user-focused way of approaching problems
- Thinking about how the backend work impacts our users on the frontend and evaluating different approaches based on what’s best for the user
- Giving input on the architecture of new and existing projects
- Advising on current trends and best practices in backend architecture (performance, accessibility, security and usability)
- Shipping work at a fast pace, where you can make change happen in days, not months
- Flexible start and finish times within the company’s core hours to fit your preferences (within core hours 10am -4pm)
Salary benchmarks
Our take
With the highest genetic diversity of any organisms on earth, bacteria hold tremendous potential for novel treatments, gene therapy, and commercial applications. But to this day, under 1% of all bacteria have been cultured in labs for chemical discovery.
Baccuico is a biotechnology company helping realise the full potential locked in bacteria, by harvesting bacterial metabolites from biological dark matter. Its Bacterial Community Cultivation platform enables new bacteria to be cultured, and screened for novel applications.
In order to make more ground-breaking discoveries, Baccuico is expanding its business operations team. By seeking to strengthen brand awareness and market analysis, as well as guide the core direction of the company, it is setting out to help define the future of biotechnology.
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57% female employees
Company
Company benefits
- New lab and office space in central London
- Learning and development opportunities
- Bike2work scheme
- Enhanced Sick Pay
- Weekly team activities including board games, sports activities, and socials on Fridays
- Complimentary snacks, fruits, tea, coffee, soft drinks...
- Flexible start and finish times within the company’s core hours
- Diverse team of colleagues (check out our website to meet us)
- 25 days holiday
- Pension plan
Company values
- Impact
- Empowerment
- Collaboration
Company HQ
Vauxhall, London, UK
Leadership
Dr Daniel Hansen
(Co-Founder & CEO)Having worked for 2 years at Barclays, Daniel took a PhD at Imperial and became a LMU Munich Exist Fellow, before co-founding Bactobio in July 2019.
Dr Mark Wilkinson
(Co-founder & CSO)Mark joined Bactobio in 2020 and oversees scientific projects from microbial generation through to compound discovery.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Bactobio
Magdalena Kowalczyk (People Ops Lead)
- We empower women in STEM through inclusive recruitment and raising awareness of DEI benefits for the business
- We build international teams through visa sponsorship and global recruitment strategies. We are proud that our team comes from over 15 nationalities across 6 continents!
- We carefully consider our recruitment practices ensuring a diverse candidate representation, crafting inclusive job descriptions, providing awareness training for hiring managers, setting shortlist targets, and removing unnecessary application information that may lead to unconscious recruitment bias
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