Software Engineer (we have office locations in Cambridge, Leeds & London)

Company Description

Genomics England partners with the NHS to provide whole genome sequencing diagnostics. We also equip researchers to find the causes of disease and develop new treatments – with patients and participants at the heart of it all.

Our mission is to continue refining, scaling, and evolving our ability to enable others to deliver genomic healthcare and conduct genomic research.

We are accelerating our impact and working with patients, doctors, scientists, government and industry to improve genomic testing, and help researchers access the health data and technology they need to make new medical discoveries and create more effective, targeted medicines for everybody.

Job Description

What you’ll be doing: 

Working alongside a Solution Architect to think through, design and enable the future facing research cohorts end to end 
Writing clean, scalable Python code, following engineering best practices 
Developing working solutions to enable processing of long read data, including future facing solutions in AWS  
Designing and maintaining services on AWS, with a focus on resilience and performance 
Working on distributed systems that handle big data processing at scale 
Building and evolving our test automation frameworks 
Troubleshooting issues, working closely with colleagues 
Staying up to date with the latest tools, libraries and tech approaches 
Using GitLab, Jira, and Confluence to work effectively in a modern agile setup What you’ll bring: 

Strong Python skills and experience building scalable backend services 
Hands-on experience with AWS, microservice architectures, and containerised environments 
Experience working on data-heavy or distributed systems 
Familiarity with agile delivery and test-driven development 
Self-sufficiency combined with a collaborative mindset and openness to learning from others Nice to have: 

Experience with big data tools (e.g. Spark, AWS Glue, or similar) 
Strong grasp of code review best practices 
Some knowledge of JavaScript 
Cloud Migration/AWS knowledge 
Understanding/experience working with orchestration and data flows 
Solution building expertise 

Qualifications

BSc in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Additional Information

Salary from: £71,500

Being an integral part of such a meaningful mission is extremely rewarding in itself, but in order to support our people, we’re continually improving our benefits package. We pride ourselves on investing in our people and supporting them to achieve their career goals, as well as offering a benefits package including: 

Generous Leave: 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, additional leave for long service, and the option to apply for up to 30 days of remote working abroad annually (approval required).
Family-Friendly: Blended working arrangements, flexible working, enhanced maternity, paternity and shared parental leave benefits.
Pension & Financial: Defined contribution pension (Genomics England double-matches up to 10%, however you can contribute more if you wish), Life Assurance (3x salary), and a Give As You Earn scheme.
Learning & Development: Individual learning budgets, support for training and certifications, and reimbursement for one annual professional subscription (approval required).
Recognition & Rewards: Employee recognition programme and referral scheme.
Health & Wellbeing: Subsidised gym membership, a free Headspace account, and access to an Employee Assistance Programme, eye tests, flu jabs.Equal opportunities and our commitment to a diverse and inclusive workplace 

Genomics England is actively committed to providing and supporting an inclusive environment that promotes equity, diversity and inclusion best practice both within our community and in any other area where we have influence. We are proud of our diverse community where everyone can come to work and feel welcomed and treated with respect regardless of any disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, religion, sexual orientation, or social background. 

Genomics England’s policies of non-discrimination and equity and will be applied fairly to all people, regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, being pregnant or recently becoming a parent, race, religion or beliefs, sex or sexual orientation, length of service, whether full or part-time or employed under a permanent or a fixed-term contract or any other relevant factor.  

Genomics England does not tolerate any form of discrimination, harassment, victimisation or bullying at work. Such behaviour is contrary to