Senior Backend Developer - Cambridge, United Kingdom - Wellcome Sanger Institute

Wellcome Sanger Institute

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Cambridge, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Do you want to help us improve human health and understand life on Earth? Make your mark by shaping the future to enable or deliver life-changing science to solve some of humanity's greatest challenges.

About the Role:

We are seeking to recruit a passionate Senior Backend Developer/Senior Web Developer to join our team in developing the best of modern websites and supporting our infrastructure.

You will support the world's key cancer genomics resource, COSMIC (Catalogue of Somatic Mutations of Cancer). This position is for a permanent contract.

This role has great scope for expanding your skills, knowledge, and interests as a Senior Backend Developer.

You will join a multidisciplinary, committed, and supportive team with the opportunity to work on innovative products that make a real difference to patients around the world.

About Us:

COSMIC is the key information source in global human cancer research and is growing rapidly in content, scope, and value.

This role is due to the evolution and expansion of our web services and products to enable this growth. We make a real difference to scientific research and to cancer patients around the world.

COSMIC data is gathered from a variety of sources, from manual curation to structured repositories into our databases. This position will help provide new websites, generate interactive visualisations of curation data.

You will be responsible for:

You will hold a transformational role within COSMIC that will collaborate with the Software Development Leads (web and data), Product Management.

You will help to co-design a completely new suite of bespoke enterprise-level systems to support COSMIC's future innovation of products to promote commercial success.

Additionally, you will be responsible for maintaining the existing legacy systems. You will co-design and implement high quality, readable and clean APIs and web services using Python, Django. Furthermore, you will assume responsibility for deployment, testing, security, monitoring, and maintenance of COSMIC's products.

About You:

You must be a skilled and passionate Senior Backend Developer. You will care about writing clean, high quality, readable and maintainable code to support our growing suite of products.

You must be a good communicator and be able to understand the goals and aims of the collaborative COSMIC team and its customers of researchers, scientists, and clinicians, globally.

Essential Skills:

In depth expertise of Python with familiarity of JavaScript
Expertise in web frameworks
Django, Django-RestFramework, and/or NodeJS
Understanding clean code principles and thoughtful use of design patterns
Experience using containers (Docker), working in a Cloud environment
Knowledge of writing and consuming RESTful APIs
Knowledge of building web services that depend on complex Database relationships
Ability to work within a goaloriented team environment
Demonstrable aptitude for logical problem solving and a positive and proactive attitude to learning and development
Has initiative but listens to instructions and willing to seek clarification when required
Enthusiastic approach to web development
Ability to prioritise, manage own workload, and deliver agreed activities consistently on time
Ability to understand issues within a code base and take guidance from Senior Developers to assist in the resolution

Desirable Skills:

Experience with API driven headless CMS technologies preferred Wagtail-CMS
Experience in DevOps and CICD (preferably Gitlab)
Experience working in an Agile scrum team
Understanding security and how to protect public web services against attacks
Ability to quickly understand scientific, technical and process

Other information:

Salary per annum:
£47,643-£56,600

Application Process:

Applications will be considered on an ongoing basis and the role may close early when a successful appointment has been made.

Closing Date: 30th June 2023

Working at Wellcome Sanger:

Our flexible-hybrid working environment is designed to support a healthy work-life balance.

This means you can work flexibly with a combination of working from home, and working from our Campus to allow you to focus on being productive and part of the team while enjoying the benefits of working flexibly.

We aim to attract, recruit, retain and develop talent from the widest possible talent pool, thereby gaining insight and access to different markets to generate a greater impact on the world.

We have a supportive culture with the following staff networks, LGBTQ+, Parents and Carers and Race Equity to bring people together to share experiences, offer specific support and development opportunities and raise awareness.

The networks are also a place for allies to provide support to others.

We want our people to be whoever they want to be because we believe people who bring their best selves to work, do their best work.

That's why we're committed to creating a truly inclusive culture at Sanger Institute.

We will consider all individuals without discrimination and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees, where everyone can thrive.

Our Benefits:

We are proud to deliver an awarding campus-wide employee wellbeing strategy and programme.

The importance of good health and adopting a healthier lifestyle and the commitment to reduce work-related stress is strongly acknowledged and recognised at Sanger Institute.