Senior Python Cloud Developer

About Oxford Nanopore Technologies

Oxford Nanopore Technologies is headquartered at the Oxford Science Park outside Oxford, UK, with satellite offices and a commercial presence in many global locations across the US, APAC and Europe.

Oxford Nanopore employs from multiple subject areas including nanopore science, molecular biology and applications, informatics, engineering, electronics, manufacturing and commercialisation. The management team, led by CEO Dr Gordon Sanghera, has a track record of delivering disruptive technologies to the market.

Oxford Nanopore’s sequencing platform is the only technology that offers real-time analysis, in fully scalable formats from pocket to population scale, that can analyse native DNA or RNA and sequence any length of fragment to achieve short to ultra-long read lengths. Our goal is to enable the analysis of any living thing, by anyone, anywhere!

About the Role

We are looking for a highly motivated individual to join the Customer Workflows as a Senior Python Cloud Developer. This exciting and challenging role is responsible for developing a globally available cloud-based data-analysis application for large and small external customers.

The Details...

Reporting to the Associate Director of Web Development, the successful candidate will extend and improve our data analysis platform to enable the scaling and delivery of the EPI2ME cloud bioinformatics platform.

If successful, you'll be working in a team of developers, bioinformatics scientists, and operations engineers to provide customer data analysis web systems including data management, analysis pipelines, telemetry processing, web application design and administrative dashboards. You'll use agile methods to develop new features and build resilient systems in the cloud and on sequencing devices. In addition, you'll maintain and develop systems that manage 100s of Terabytes of raw sequencing data and data analysis results from sequencing experiments.

Key Responsibilities Include…

• Develop and maintain core backend services including python web applications and API services for both external and internal customers.
• Relational and non-relational database implementation within web applications.
• Improving the reliability, scalability and maintainability of the service.
• Building observability into services through metrics and dashboards.
• Improve team documentation, processes, and working practices to raise delivery standards.
• Contribute to the long-term evolution of the product and future feature development

What We're Looking For...

We'll expect you to have a strong work ethic, positive attitude and good attention to detail. You'll also have good communication skills to enable you to engage with stakeholders as well as developers. You'll hold a degree in a numerate discipline and have proven experience of developing Python web applications and maintaining them in an operational cloud environment.

• Experience using one or more of the frameworks FastAPI, Django, Flask, Litestar, etc
• Data modelling for relational and NoSQL type database and using database backends in web applications (DynamoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL)
• Experience with containers and related tooling
• Some experience with AWS is essential; such as DynamoDB, RDS, Batch, ECS, and Fargate
• Experience with continuous integration and deployment systems (notably Gitlab and/or AWS CodeDeploy)
• Clear communication and documentation skills to enable you to engage with stakeholders as well as developers.

“Nice to Have” Skills and Experience

• Experience of developing software in a scientific environment, particularly bioinformatics
• Front End Experience (We work primarily in react other experience like Vue, Next.js is valuable)
• Typescript, node, HTML, CSS (to contribute to internal support web interfaces and other internal tooling)

Working at Oxford Nanopore

We offer outstanding benefits to include an attractive bonus, generous pension contributions, private healthcare and an excellent starting salary. Based within beautiful, landscaped surroundings with tree-lined walks, water features and a lake, all of which make for a wonderful working environment.

If you are looking to utilise your skills to really make a difference to humankind, then consider joining our team and apply today!

Please note that no terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of a person's gender, marital status, race, religion, colour, age, disability or sexual orientation. Every candidate will be assessed only in accordance with their merits, qualifications and abilities to perform the duties of the job.