Senior Backend Engineer, Bactobio

£80-100k

React

CSS

TypeScript

Python

MySQL

Celery

FastAPI

Mid and Senior level

London

4-5 days a week in office (Durham St, London)

Uncovering solutions from biological dark matter

Job no longer available

Uncovering solutions from biological dark matter

21-100 employees

BiologyScienceBiotechnology

Job no longer available

£80-100k

React

CSS

TypeScript

Python

MySQL

Celery

FastAPI

Mid and Senior level

London

4-5 days a week in office (Durham St, London)

21-100 employees

BiologyScienceBiotechnology

Company mission

To create a safer and greener world by harvesting valuable metabolites from biological dark matter.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

We're looking for an experienced Senior Backend Engineer with a solid technical background, a passion for real-world problem solving, and a commitment to creating world-class, reliable and scalable systems to help build out our software
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

What the job involves

You'll join our 3-person software team, collaborating closely with 8 bioinformaticians, data scientists & robot automation engineers, to help create and shape our backend systems
You will improve the design of our SQLAlchemy-based data model, expose it through our REST APIs and help to build out the infrastructure to run our application and scientific pipelines
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

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.

Bactobio 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, Bactobio is expanding its business operations team and used 2022 funding to advance its discovery pipeline. 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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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

57% female employees

Glassdoor (3.9)

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 HQ

Vauxhall, London, UK

Leadership

Dr Daniel Hansen

(CEO & Co-Founder)

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

(CSO & Co-Founder)

Mark joined Bactobio in 2020 and oversees scientific projects from microbial generation through to compound discovery.

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