Software Engineer

2 weeks ago

Manchester, United Kingdom Yourgene Health Full time

Job title: Software Developer (Bioinformatics)

Reports to: Senior Bioinformatics Developer

Location: Manchester (hybrid role) - 3 days in the Manchester office / 2 days working from home

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 Software Developer develop software used in data analysis processes, algorithms and systems to support the design, development, verification and validation of Yourgene Health products and services.


Overall responsibility:

The Software Developer provide software development expertise in the design, development and maintenance of software. Liaise internally to help ensure technologies and methods used in test development will meet user needs and product requirements.


Key areas of responsibility:

  • Provide software development expertise on bioinformatics development projects.
  • Contribute to the development, verification and validation of software applications and tools that implement bioinformatics processing algorithms and pipelines.
  • Produce and maintain comprehensive and accurate documentation of software developed.
  • Work collaboratively with development scientists, supporting them with 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 bioinformatics 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 a further degree in Computational Biology, Bioinformatics or similar with a strong software development component.
  • Excellent software programming skills with experience of appropriate compiled and scripted general purpose and domain specific languages, such as: C#, C, C++, Java, the R System for Statistical Computing, Matlab, Perl/BioPerl, and UNIX/Linux shell scripting languages. Experience of database design and management systems and SQL is advantageous.
  • Good knowledge and understanding of the fundamental elements and workflow of software development processes.
  • Experience of working in a commercial organisation is highly preferable.
  • 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.
  • Able to assimilate knowledge from technically detailed scientific sources: e.g. manuscripts and conference proceedings.

Closing Date:

Sunday 10th November, 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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