Opportunity: Senior Bioinformatics Programmer @ A fast-growing start-up company -- Hinxton, Cambridge, UK

Eugene McDaid • April 17, 2018
Opportunity: Senior Bioinformatics Programmer @ A fast-growing start-up company -- Hinxton, Cambridge, UK
BACKGROUND
A very exciting position has just become available for a Senior Programmer, ideally with Bioinformatics skills to join a fast-growing start-up company in Hinxton, Cambridge. The successful candidate will be involved in the technical development of all aspects of the company's analysis platform: building and running pipelines, automation and scaling, and data management. This is an opportunity for an innovative individual to be involved at the early stages of this novel area of microbiome biomedicine and to help shape the informatics of the company to meet the needs of this new and evolving discipline. Innovation and problem-solving will be required and actively encouraged.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Key duties will include:

Design and develop the company analysis infrastructure

Implement production pipelines in a managed compute environment

Optimise and streamline production pipelines and processes

Evaluate and implement new tools and technologies as appropriate to improve and extend our technical capability

Extend pipelines to meet necessary industry standards

Collaborate in multi-disciplinary projects to ensure bioinformatics provision for therapeutic discovery and development
REQUIREMENTS
Candidate Specifications:
Essential:

PhD or Masters in Informatics or Computer Science, or equivalent experience

Demonstrable experience of working in a production informatics environment

Experience with pipelining analyses on high-performance compute: farms, clusters, or cloud

Proficiency in a high-level programming language, eg; Python or Perl

Experience with software development best practices, including version control and testing

Fluency in Linux

Good communication and presentation skills

Flexibility to work in a new and dynamic company

Candidates must be legally entitled to work in the UK

An interest in biology

Desirable:

DevOps / SysAdmin experience

Familiarity with Continuous Integration (eg; Jenkins/Travis)

Knowledge of Ansible or other automation tools such as Chef/Puppet

Experience with OpenStack or Amazon EC2

Experience analysing genomic/metagenomic sequence data
COMPENSATION
There are some great benefits available with this role as well as the opportunity to work with some of the best minds in genomics and software development.

HOW TO APPLY
Please do not hesitate to contact Harvey Uppal at huppal[at]pararecruit.com or call (+44) 121 616 3407 to discuss this opportunity further.

Keywords: Programming, Python, Perl, Software, Version Control, Linux, Jenkins, Git, Chef, Puppet, Bioinformatics, Genomics, Metagenomics, Microbiome, Cambridge

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