Senior Engineer

1 month ago


Glasgow, United Kingdom Amici Procurement Solutions Ltd Full time

Technology underpins everything we do at Amici, enabling our amazing team of purchasing and supply chain specialists to support some of the most exciting and important work in the biotech and life science industry.

Customers come to Amici to source products for their laboratory. Our MyAmici platform allows scientists to purchase lab consumables, chemicals, biologicals and capital equipment.

It’s Amici’s Innovation team that works diligently to ensure that the MyAmici platform and online purchasing experience is easy and seamless, so that our customers can focus on making life changing discoveries.

About the Role

As Amici continues to grow, we’re seeking a talented Senior Engineer with strong expertise in software development, ideally in Java with exposure to Python, to join our team and contribute to our exciting projects.

You will be a key member of our Product Data and Search team, responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining a robust data platform and search solution which underpins Amici’s MyAmici platform. Your technical ability, problem-solving skills, and innovative mindset will drive the success of the platform and contribute to the growth of Amici through continual optimisation of the service.

With ‘Search’ being a core part of the next generation of our platform, this is an exciting area to be working in with the opportunity to work on cutting-edge solutions including vector search and machine learning.

This is a permanent and full-time role. This role is Hybrid, working 1 day a week in our Glasgow office (Tuesday) and 4 days a week from home (Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday). For the first few weeks of employment, we may require more time in the office for onboarding and training.

What will you be doing?

Engineering and Delivery

  • Deliver high-quality code using Agile and Test Driven Development methodologies and practices.
  • Develop and then maintain domain knowledge based on customer use-cases, industry good practice, and relevant regulations.
  • Turn functional and non-functional requirements into well-structured software that meets the needs of the business.
  • Participate in requirements review sessions (“Three Amigos”) with Business Analysts and QA Engineers.
  • Develop features in a full-stack manner across our React/Typescript front-end through to our Java based search service.
  • Work with our Data Engineers to design, develop and integrate data pipelines that feed the solution with the data required to power our offering.
  • Develop complex database queries, views, triggers and functions.
  • Develop solutions using Azure cloud services including Data Factory, Batch Services and Azure SQL.
  • Conduct code reviews and participate in pair programming sessions.
  • Able to assess the impact of changes on our systems and infrastructure.
  • Document your code both technically and to support operational maintenance.

Operational Support

  • Support the smooth transition of software into production.
  • Provide third-level support for production software during business hours.
What are we looking for?
  • Experience in professional development, ideally in Java, in a software-powered business or consulting setting.
  • Professional experience working with largescale data processing workflows to feed search or data related services in Java or Python.
  • Experience working with Apache Lucene or a derivative solution such as Apache Solr, ElasticSearch, etc, or a willingness to learn.
  • Experience working in an Agile development environment using modern DevOps practices.
  • Computer Science degree, Software Engineering degree, or evidence of equivalent industry experience.
  • Experience with writing automated tests (e.g. JUnit, Jest, etc).
  • Experience working with databases, both relational (e.g SQLServer, Postgres, MySQL, etc ) and non-relational (e.g. MongoDB, CosmoDB, etc).
What is in it for you?

We offer an intrapreneurial environment where people are supported to do their best work, and everyone has the opportunity to make a difference. As a company, we never stop investing in our culture. We appreciate empowering, motivating and developing employees to offer a challenging and rewarding experience at Amici.
Further information on our benefits can be found here .

About Amici

Amici was founded in 2005 by Caroline Briggs, who is still our CEO today. We provide a purchasing and inventory management service, allowing biotech organisations to focus on discovering transformative innovations.

Our procurement consultancy service, along with in-house cloud-based software, allows scientists to focus on discovering life changing cures, while we manage their laboratory purchasing and supply chain needs.

We take extreme pride in delivering solutions of the highest standard and are honoured that we can help our customers on their way to success. Our customers are loyal and enthusiastic about us and so are our people.

Amici is an equal opportunity employer. Everyone is welcome regardless of your appearance, where you’re from, or anything else that makes you, you.

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