Senior Software Engineer

2 weeks ago

Manchester, United Kingdom Yourgene Health Full time

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


About Yourgene Health:

Yourgene Health is a leading integrated technologies and services business, enabling the delivery of genomic medicine. The group works in partnership with global leaders in DNA technology to advance diagnostic science.


Yourgene primarily develops, manufactures, and commercialises simple and accurate molecular diagnostic solutions, for reproductive health, precision medicine and infectious diseases. The Group's flagship in vitro diagnostic products include non -invasive prenatal tests (NIPT) for Down's Syndrome and other genetic disorders, Cystic Fibrosis screening tests, invasive rapid aneuploidy tests and DPYD genotyping.


Yourgene has a range of innovative DNA sample preparation platforms, powered by Ranger® Technology, the Yourgene LightBench® and Yourgene QS250, ideal for cell free DNA applications in NIPT and oncology including liquid biopsy.


Yourgene also has a global laboratory service network equipped to be a full life-cycle partner for clinical, research and pharmaceutical organisations to support partners at the preclinical, clinical, and post market stage to develop, manufacture, obtain regulatory approval and commercialise new products and services. In addition, Yourgene offers and NIPT and high throughput Covid testing service.


Yourgene Health is headquartered in Manchester, UK with facilities in Taipei, Singapore, the US and Canada.


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.


Description of role:

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. .


Overall responsibility:

The Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer will provide software development expertise in the design, development and maintenance of software for use in molecular diagnostic and screening products and services. Provide recommendations for best practice methodologies for operation of cloud-based infrastructure. Liaise internally to help ensure technologies and methods used in system development will meet user needs and product requirements.


Key areas of responsibility:

  • Provide software development expertise and input to development projects.
  • Develop and maintain software components of a sample-to-answer data analysis medical device.
  • Contribute to the migration of existing products and tools to a cloud-based infrastructure.
  • Provide recommendations for secure and cost-efficient techniques to leverage cloud services as alternatives to extending the existing on-premise infrastructure.
  • Automate build system and continuous integration processes, applying best practice infrastructure-as-code techniques.
  • Produce and maintain comprehensive and accurate design documentation and verification protocols.
  • Work collaboratively with development scientists, supporting them with bioinformatics analysis capabilities to create products, services and processes meeting the User Needs of Yourgene Health’s customers.
  • Contribute to support, maintenance and improvement of software products, services, and in-house computing resources and associated documentation.
  • As required, support any interfaces with external development contractors to help ensure that implementations of computational algorithms and processes are optimised for Yourgene Health products and services.
  • Support and provide guidance to junior staff.


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.


Closing Date:

Sunday 15th December, 2024


Yourgene Health is committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion among our workforce. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best.

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