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 to help design, build, and maintain user facing components of our scalable, high-performance data platform supporting our bioinformaticians and science teams.
You'll collaborate closely as part of a cross functional team working with architects, platform and data engineers to deliver platform tools to help manage the full data lifecycle in the platform, monitor sequencing device telemetry and provide the tooling our science teams need to discover and use the data.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and support web applications deployed to support the data platform.
- Own the full stack development for tools that support data management across the full lifecycle, including ingest monitoring, curation, managing releases, monitoring data quality, and user access control management.
- Build and support components to help manage ingest from and monitor distributed next-generation sequencing devices, including device telemetry (Kafka, MQTT streaming from Oxford Nanopore NGS devices).
- Design, develop, and maintain platform tools to support our bioinformaticians and science teams in discovering, understanding, and accessing data (Pathogen data catalogue, Quality dashboards, Management information reporting).
- Support innovation efforts to explore the application of new technologies such as vector databases to support search and AI use cases.
- Design, develop, and maintain highly performant, scalable, and secure backend APIs using appropriate technologies to support the full stack platform tools (Python, NodeJS).
- Implement and manage data storage solutions, including data lakes, data warehouses, and databases that underpin the platform tooling (e.g., object storage, Oracle Autonomous Database, PostgreSQL).
- Work with backend engineers to ensure data services and associated APIs meet the needs of the platform tools.
- Collaborate with product managers to capture requirements, wireframe solutions, and design the user experience.
- Work with big data technologies such as Kafka, Iceberg, and Parquet, and managed database technologies such as PostgreSQL and Oracle vector databases.
- Ensure applications are secure.
- Operate, monitor, and maintain the associated Oracle Cloud infrastructure to ensure the platform tools are highly available, scalable, and secure.
- Work with DevSecOps engineers to ensure that all deployments are automated and adopt best-practice CI/CD.
- Ensure solutions are documented and assured through defined architecture governance processes.
- Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to maintain the health and performance of the data platform.
Requirements
Essential Knowledge, Skills and Experience
- Proven experience as a full stack engineer.
- Proficiency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and front-end frameworks such as React, Angular, Vue.js.
- Experience with backend languages and frameworks such as Python/NodeJS and frameworks like Next.js, Django, Spring Boot, etc.
- Expertise with at least one cloud platform and its related managed services.
- Knowledge of database systems, both relational (SQL) and NoSQL.
- Skills in UX design (Figma).
- Knowledge of containerization using Kubernetes and Docker.
- Experience working with streaming technologies (Kafka).
- Proven experience developing scalable architectures using both containerization and serverless approaches (Oracle Functions or AWS Lambda).
- Familiarity with version management and best practices (Git).
- Experience managing teams and developing a high-performance, collaborative culture.
- Understanding of Agile working practices and sprint-based methodology.
- Ability to actively contribute to knowledge sharing.
- Knowledge of security best practices.
Desirable Knowledge, Skills and Experience
- Experience with Oracle Cloud (OCI).
- Experience with Jira, Confluence, or similar project management tools.
- Experience working with scientific analytical, statistical, and visualization libraries.
Key Attributes
- Collaboration.
- Willingness to learn and cross-train/upskill in new technology.
- Willingness to be hands-on to explore new technology or develop POCs.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to think critically about security 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 security and quality assurance.
- Flexibility to adapt and contribute to a rapidly scaling organization.
Benefits
We offer the following benefits:
- Enhanced holiday pay
- Pension
- Life Assurance
- Income Protection
- Private Medical Insurance
- Hospital Cash Plan
- Therapy Services
- Perk Box
- Electrical 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).
