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Led by a world-class faculty of scientists, technologists, policy makers, economists and entrepreneurs, the Ellison Institute of Technology aims to develop and deploy commercially sustainable solutions to solve some of humanity's most enduring challenges. Our work is guided by four Humane Endeavours: Health, Medical Science & Generative Biology, Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture, Climate Change & Managing Atmospheric CO2 and Artificial Intelligence & Robotics.
Set for completion in 2027, the EIT Campus in Littlemore will include more than 300,000 sq ft of research laboratories, educational and gathering spaces. Fuelled by growing ambition and the strength of Oxford's science ecosystem, EIT is now expanding its footprint to a 2 million sq ft Campus across the western part of The Oxford Science Park. Designed by Foster + Partners led by Lord Norman Foster, this will become a transformative workplace for up to 7,000 people, with autonomous laboratories, purpose-built laboratories including a plant sciences building and dynamic spaces to spark interdisciplinary collaboration.
The Pathogen Mission highlights EIT's transformative approach, using Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) and Oracle's cloud technology to create a global pathogen metagenomics system. This initiative aims to improve diagnostics, provide early epidemic warnings, and guide treatments by profiling antimicrobial resistance. The goal is to deliver certified diagnostic tools for widespread use in labs, hospitals, and public health.
EIT Oxford fosters a culture of collaboration, innovation, and resilience, valuing diverse expertise to drive sustainable solutions to humanity's enduring challenges.
We are seeking to recruit a Full Stack Software Engineer to help design, build, and maintain user facing components of our scalable, high-performance data platform supporting our bio-informaticians and science teams.
You'll collaborate closely as part of a cross functional team working with architects, platform and data engineers to deliver platform tools to help manage the full data lifecycle in the platform, monitor sequencing device telemetry and provide the tooling our science teams need to discover and use the data.
Key Responsibilities
Design, develop, and support web applications deployed to support the data platform
Own the full stack development for tools that support data management across the full lifecycle, including ingest monitoring, curation, managing releases, monitoring data quality, and user access control management
Build and support components to help manage ingest from and monitor distributed next-generation sequencing devices, including device telemetry (Kafka, MQTT streaming from Oxford Nanopore NGS devices)
Design, develop, and maintain platform tools to support our bioinformaticians and science teams in discovering, understanding, and accessing data (Pathogen data catalogue, Quality dashboards, Management information reporting)
Support innovation efforts to explore the application of new technologies such as vector databases to support search and AI use cases
Design, develop, and maintain highly performant, scalable, and secure backend APIs using appropriate technologies to support the full stack platform tools (Python, NodeJS)
Implement and manage data storage solutions, including data lakes, data warehouses, and databases that underpin the platform tooling (e.g., object storage, Oracle Autonomous Database, PostgreSQL)
Work with backend engineers to ensure data services and associated APIs meet the needs of the platform tools
Collaborate with product managers to capture requirements, wireframe solutions, and design the user experience
Work with big data technologies such as Kafka, Iceberg, and Parquet, and managed database technologies such as PostgreSQL and Oracle vector databases
Ensure applications are secure
Operate, monitor, and maintain the associated Oracle Cloud infrastructure to ensure the platform tools are highly available, scalable, and secure
Work with DevSecOps engineers to ensure that all deployments are automated and adopt best-practice CI/CD
Ensure solutions are documented and assured through defined architecture governance processes
Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to maintain the health and performance of the data platform
Requirements
Essential Knowledge, Skills and Experience
Proven experience as a full stack engineer
Proficiency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and front-end frameworks such as React, Angular, Vue.js
Experience with backend languages and frameworks such as Python/NodeJS and frameworks like Next.js, Django, Spring Boot, etc
Expertise with at least one cloud platform and its related managed services
Knowledge of database systems, both relational (SQL) and NoSQL
Skills in UX design (Figma)
Knowledge of containerization using Kubernetes and Docker
Experience working with streaming technologies (Kafka)
Proven experience developing scalable architectures using both containeri
About the Company
Led by a world-class faculty of scientists, technologists, policy makers, economists and entrepreneurs, the Ellison Institute of Technology aims to develop and deploy commercially sustainable solutions to solve some of humanity’s most enduring challenges.
By breaking down the silos between science, research, industry and policy, we are reimagining the path from scientific discovery to applied solutions for the benefit of society.
Set for completion in 2027, the new EIT Oxford campus will incorporate more than 30,000m2 of r...
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