At the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), we’re on a mission to translate scientific discovery into real world impact. We bring together visionary scientists, technologists, policy makers, and entrepreneurs to tackle humanity’s greatest challenges in four transformative areas:
- Health, Medical Science & Generative Biology
- Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture
- Climate Change & Managing CO₂
- Artificial Intelligence & Robotics
This is ambitious work - work that demands curiosity, courage, and a relentless drive to make a difference. At EIT, you’ll join a community built on excellence, innovation, tenacity, trust, and collaboration, where bold ideas become real-world breakthroughs. Together, we push boundaries, embrace complexity, and create solutions to scale ideas from lab to society. Explore more at www.eit.org.
Welcome to the Pathogen Project:
Within this ecosystem, the Pathogen Project exemplifies EIT’s dedication to ground-breaking science. It seeks to transform pathogen risk management, detection and response by leveraging Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS)-based metagenomic and pathogen-specific analytical tools. The goal is to power metagenomic devices using long-read sequencing technologies by building a comprehensive database of pathogen information to inform response. Enabled by Oracle Inc.’s cloud-computing scale and security, the Pathogen Project is advancing toward certified diagnostic tools for deployment in laboratories, hospitals, and public health organisations worldwide.
Your Role:
At EIT we are seeking an experienced and detailed orientated Full Stack Software Engineer (Frontend Leaning) to support the design, build, and maintenance of our web-based SaaS platform that enables researchers and clinicians to engage with our scientific pipelines and data platform. Your work will shape a world-class experience for a diverse set of users, enabling step-changes in global genomics research and clinical practice.
This role will involve hands-on software engineering as part of a cross-functional team. You’ll collaborate with engineers, product managers, and platform specialists to deliver secure, reliable, and high-quality software.
Key responsibilities:
- Build and maintain full stack, but predominantly front-end features for the GPAS Portal and new web applications.
- Contribute to technical design for new tools and help maintain existing platforms.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product to translate scientific needs into user-focused tools.
- Contribute to the team through hands-on coding, code reviews, and technical design reviews.
- Contribute to the scalability and reliability of the overall solution, handling large amounts of genomic, and other multi-modal data.
- Champion usability, ensuring interfaces meet the needs of clinicians and researchers.
- Enhance performance and responsiveness of user interfaces for data-heavy applications.
Requirements
Essential Knowledge, Skills, and Experience:
- Experience with the development of web-applications in production environments.
- Strong skills in React or a similar Typescript front-end framework.
- Experience with Python, with knowledge of API frameworks (e.g. FastAPI, Django) and SQL databases.
- Experience with Docker and Git-based collaborative workflows.
- Understanding of Agile development.
- Knowledge of security best practices and secure software development.
Desirable Knowledge, Skills, and Experience:
- Experience with Jira, Confluence, or similar project management tools.
- Experience with event-based architecture with hands-on experience with, e.g., Kafka.
- Familiarity with UX collaboration tools (e.g., Figma) and accessibility best practices.
Key Attributes:
- Collaboration.
- Willingness to learn and cross train / upskill in new technology.
- Willingness to be hands on to explore new technology or develop POC’s.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to think critically about product development challenges.
- Excellent communication and teamwork abilities, particularly in cross-functional teams.
- Ability to manage multiple tasks and meet deadlines in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- Attention to detail and a strong commitment to quality.
- Flexibility to adapt and contribute to a rapidly scaling organisation.
Benefits
Our Benefits:
- Competitive Salary + travel allowance + bonus
- Enhanced holiday pay
- Pension
- Life Assurance
- Income Protection
- Private Medical Insurance
- Hospital Cash Plan
- Therapy Services
- Perk Box
- Electric Car Scheme
Working Together – What It Involves
- You must have the right to work permanently in the UK with a willingness to travel as necessary. In certain cases, we can consider sponsorship, and this will be assessed on a case-by-case basis.
- You will live in, or within easy commuting distance of, Oxford (or be willing to relocate).
