Backend Engineer, Sano Genetics
Python
£60-90k
+ Equity
More information about location
Personalised health research
Job no longer available
Personalised health research
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
£60-90k
+ Equity
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
To accelerate the future of personalised medicine.
Role
Who you are
- Have production experience of designing and implementing REST APIs, ideally using Python
- Have experience designing and implementing database schemas using ORMs
- Have a quality mindset and are passionate about testing (both unit and integration testing)
- Are happy to quickly learn new technologies as and when it’s needed - we believe in choosing the right technology for the job!
- Are a self-driven and proactive engineer who can unblock themselves by asking questions and collaborating with others
- Are happy working in cross-functional teams alongside front end engineers, bioinformaticians, product designers and product managers
- Are okay with uncertainty - you will be tackling problems that don’t always have a well-defined solution
What the job involves
- Collaborate with Product Managers, Tech Leads and other engineers to define and shape the scope of the work
- Implement and test new API endpoints using Python to support product features across two customer-facing products
- Make pragmatic decisions about implementations, making trade-offs between in-house vs off-the-shelf solutions for our technical problems
- Design and implement database model changes using SQLAlchemy, and write database schema migrations as needed
- Maintain the quality of our codebase by paying attention to consistency and refactoring parts of the code as needed
- For larger pieces of work, produce lightweight documentation (we use Notion and Miro) to communicate technical designs and get feedback from the rest of the team
- Participate in code reviews with the rest of the team
Our take
Unlocking the potential of personalised medicine would lead to tremendous progress in treating many diseases. Sano Genetics is working towards making this a reality through a user-centric genetic data marketplace that connects individuals directly to medical research institutions, acting as ethical brokers to facilitate a direct connection between individuals and research institutions.
This provides access to dynamic health and genetic data for genomics research to accelerate the pace of precision medicine, whilst promoting transparency and data privacy for participants. Anyone can sign up for the platform for free and participants gain access to cutting-edge medical reports on conditions relevant to them receive personalised genetic reports, and have the option to participate in research studies and clinical trials. Sano offers participants full transparency and control over how their data is used.
The company's current focus is on neurological and immune conditions - Parkinson’s Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, and Long COVID, amongst others. Sano expanded its product to be a 'patient portal' for national-scale precision medicine initiatives, such as Genomics England, with the potential to impact millions of people. In 2024, its funding raise of $11.4 million is being channelled into scaling its product to meet demand globally and developing AI integrations.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jan 2024
$11.9m
EARLY VC
Aug 2023
$0.5m
GRANT
Total funding: $27.7m
Company benefits
- 📈 Stock Options
- 🎓 £1,000 Learning Budget (annual)
- 💻 Apple Mac book
- 💺 £600 New Joiner WFH Allowance (one off)
- 💺 £300 WFH Budget (annual)
- 🎒 Flexible Remote Working
- 🏝️ 25 Days + Bank Holidays 🌴 Up to 5 more holiday days with tenure
- 🛩️ Up to 40 Days holiday through buy-back
- 🗺️ Up to 45 days Work From Anywhere
- 🍼 16 Weeks full pay Parental Leave
- 💆 £600 Wellbeing Budget (annual)
- 🧠 Online therapy (Spill)
- 🏢 16 Tally Co-working Credits (monthly)
- 🏦 Up to 5% matched Pension contribution (Royal London)
- 🏥 Private Medical Insurance (Bupa)
- 🩺 Healthcare Cash Plan (Health Shield - Level 3)
- 🛡️ Life Insurance (Canada Life)
- 🛟 Income Protection Insurance (Canada Life)
- 🚴 Cycle to Work Scheme
Leadership
Patrick Short
(Co-Founder & CEO)Experience in genomics and rare genetic disorders research at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the University of Cambridge.
Charlotte Guzo
(Co-Founder & COO)Previous Risk Analyst at JP Morgan. PhD at University of Cambridge.
William Jones
(CTO )Computer scientist previously working on deep learning and genetics at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the University of Cambridge.
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