Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer

at  Yourgene Health

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Job title: Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
Reports to: Bioinformatics & Software Team Leader / Head of Bioinformatics & Software
Location: Manchester (hybrid role)
Contract Type: Full-time, Permanent
Salary & Benefits: Competitive Salary + Benefits Package

OUR CULTURE:

Yourgene is a growing, vibrant and exciting place to work, we are looking for committed driven individuals to be part of our next growth journey. Our culture is described by our employee’s as collegiate, friendly, professional, innovative, open and fast paced. We have nay social and well-being initiatives run by our Social Huddle that keep our sense of community alive during challenging times that the pandemic has thrown our way. At Yourgene we focus on putting values led programmes in place to ensure that we can attract, retain and develop our people. We want our people to have a career with Yourgene and we ensure that they are recognised and rewarded for their achievements and commitment, everyone plays a critical role in our growth journey.

QUALIFICATIONS, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• A degree in Computer Science or similar technical subject, preferably with a strong software development component.
• Extensive knowledge of using at least one cloud computing platform, such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud. Experience with multiple platforms preferred.
• Experience of designing, developing, and managing cloud-based infrastructure and applications.
• Knowledge of cloud security best practices and compliance requirements.
• Excellent software programming skills with experience of full-stack software development, using languages such as C#, Java, Go or Python for back-end development, and experience of multiple UI technologies. Experience with desktop UI technologies such as WPF is also desirable. Experience of relational database design and management systems and SQL is advantageous.
• Experience of configuring CI/CD pipelines and performing devops activities, using infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, Ansible, Puppet and Chef, as well as experience with Unix shell scripting.
• Good knowledge and understanding of the fundamental elements and workflow of software development processes.
• Enthusiasm, drive, thoroughness, diligence and a willingness to take personal responsibility to ensure that projects are successful.
• Excellent organizational skills and enjoys working to tight timelines.
• Experience of working within interdisciplinary (e.g. scientific/engineering/design) teams is advantageous.
• Experience of working in a regulated industry is desirable but not essential.
• Direct experience of working with Next Generation Sequencing data sets is preferable but not essential.

Yourgene Health, part of Novacyt Group are recruiting for a Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer to develop software and configure development and deployment infrastructure, to support the design, development, verification and validation of Yourgene Health products and services with a focus on the development of cloud based solutions. .