Oxford Nanopore Technologies
Software Engineer
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About Us
Oxford Nanopore Technologies is headquartered at the Oxford Science Park outside Oxford, UK, with satellite offices and commercial presence in many global locations across the US, APAC, and Europe. Oxford Nanopore employs experts from multiple subject areas including nanopore science, molecular biology and applications, informatics, engineering, electronics, manufacturing, and commercialisation. The management team, led by CEO Francis Van Parys, 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 (for rapid insights), 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. We offer real-time nanopore-based DNA/RNA sequencing technology: accessible, easy to use, and fully scalable for any requirement.
Summary
- Design, build, test, and maintain reliable software across our customer platform ecosystem.
- Develop and maintain APIs, integrations, and services connecting customer-facing applications with platforms such as Salesforce and Dynamics 365.
- Help modernise legacy applications and progressively reduce technical debt and unnecessary complexity.
- Build secure, scalable, and maintainable solutions using appropriate engineering patterns and standards.
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Key Responsibilities
- Work closely with Product Owners, UX, architects, and other engineers to turn customer and business needs into working software.
- Contribute to technical design and architecture discussions, challenging solutions constructively where there is a better approach.
- Improve automated testing, deployment, monitoring, and observability.
- Diagnose and resolve production issues, identifying root causes rather than simply treating symptoms.
- Participate in code reviews and help maintain high engineering standards across the team.
- Contribute to continuous improvement in our development practices, tooling, and ways of working.
- Share knowledge and support other engineers across the team.
Qualifications/Experience
- Strong commercial software development experience using Python.
- Experience building modern web applications, backend services, and/or APIs.
- Good understanding of software engineering principles, design patterns, and maintainable code.
- Experience working with REST APIs and integrating multiple systems.
- Experience with relational databases and SQL.
- Familiarity with cloud-based application architectures.
- Experience with automated testing and CI/CD.
- Understanding of application security, performance, and observability.
- Experience working with Git and modern development workflows.
- Confidence working in an environment containing both modern and legacy technologies.
- A pragmatic approach to balancing technical quality, customer value, and delivery.
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Nice to Have
Experience in any of the following would be useful, but isn’t essential:
- Ruby / Ruby on Rails
- JavaScript / TypeScript and modern frontend frameworks
- AWS
- Salesforce integrations
- Microsoft Dynamics 365 integrations
- Identity, authentication, and customer account platforms
- Integration platforms and event-driven architectures
- Ecommerce or complex transactional platforms
- Modernising or decomposing legacy applications
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.
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