Senior Scientific Programmer

7 days ago


Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom Tagomics Full time £7
About Tagomics

Tagomics is a pioneering company that has developed a groundbreaking multiomic biomarker discovery platform. Our technology combines genomics, epigenetics, and fragmentomics to offer a step change in genomics-based disease profiling and diagnosis.

Job Description

We are seeking a highly skilled Scientific Programmer / Bioinformatics Engineer to join our multidisciplinary team. As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for designing and maintaining robust, scalable, and cost-effective cloud infrastructure to support our first product.

Main Responsibilities
  • Designing, developing, testing, reviewing, and maintaining specialist scientific software to support R&D and product development
  • Design, implement, test, and monitor cloud infrastructure to support bioinformatics analysis pipelines
  • Lead technical decision making on software development projects
  • Coordinate, manage, and integrate software development activities to ensure timely delivery
  • Championing software development best practices throughout the team
  • Troubleshoot software issues and facilitate remedial actions
  • Collaborating with lab team and other stakeholders to gather requirements and priorities for projects
  • Represent bioinformatics team as a subject matter expert in computing in cross team meetings
  • Support bioinformaticians development workflows to empower them to deliver high quality work quickly
  • Contribute to software development strategy and technology choice across software stack
Requirements
  • Experience with supporting Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data analysis pipelines
  • Experience with programming languages, preferably Python
  • Experience with Linux/Unix systems
  • Experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS
  • Experience with version control systems like Git
  • Experience with containerisation technologies like Docker
  • Experience with DevOps tools, processes, and philosophy
Nice to Haves
  • Experience with common analysis techniques and tools for NGS (e.g., alignment, variant calling, etc.)
  • Experience with common bioinformatics DSLs (e.g., nextflow, wdl, cwl, snakemake)
  • Experience developing software in regulated spaces, i.e., medical devices
  • Experience with creating Infrastructure as Code
  • Experience with cloud security best practices
  • Experience with managing, securing, and monitoring clinical data sources
What We Offer
  • Competitive salary
  • Generous share option scheme
  • Matched pension contributions up to 8%
  • Private health care
  • Performance related bonus scheme

We offer flexible working and believe in maintaining a sustainable work-life balance. Our modern offices at Granta park are lift accessible and have ample on-site parking as well as bike stands. The campus has a shuttle bus that runs to Cambridge and Whittlesford train stations, an onsite nursery, gym, restaurants and coffee shop.

We are not currently sponsoring visas for this position. You will need to be legally able to work in the UK.



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