🖊 Role Senior Frontend Engineer 🔢 Type 3 month temporary position, with strong potential to become a permanent role 🌎 Location UK, fully remote (requires a good internet connection; and a private desk to work from). You must have the right to work in the UK; visa sponsorship is not available. 💰 Salary £60,000 - £90,000/year (depending on experience) 🌴 Holiday 25 days/year + UK public holidays ℹ️ About Genpax Genpax is an innovative, and exciting startup company that is aiming to revolutionise the way bacteria and their antimicrobial resistances are tracked. Our goal is to enable proactive infection control at early stages of outbreaks and in response to more dangerous strains. By combining traditional and cutting-edge computational methodologies, we want to radically increase the utility, scalability, and speed with which genome sequencing information can be accessed, and used, to deliver near real-time diagnostic and infection control solutions. Note: Prior genetics/bioinformatics experience is not required. We believe we have all the missing pieces to address this problem, which we are converting into a real-world solution though our platform, IDEM. The platform: Uses proprietary algorithms to perform our scientific analysis. Is capable of processing hundreds of samples per hour. Has a browser-based user interface for customers to manage samples, and view results of analyses. Is backed by automated testing, and automated deployment via CI/CD. The languages we currently use for application development are Python, and TypeScript. The platform is deployed on AWS. Terraform, and Ansible are used for Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Our technologies include: React with Next.js; GraphQL; Docker; Postgres; Git; CI/CD with GitHub; computational workflows with Nextflow. Note: Prior experience with all the tools and technologies that we use is not required. 🖥️ What you’ll be doing Working in an agile software engineering team to develop a cutting-edge platform for infectious disease surveillance. Contributing to all aspects of software engineering: from planning, and prototyping; to implementation, testing, and deployment. Supporting the operation, and continuous improvement of a live system. Collaborating with others on complex features in the context of a scientific domain. Making pragmatic decisions, whilst promoting a culture of quality, and continuous improvement. ✅ This job is for you if you Have experience using Typescript, React, and Next.js. Are happy to quickly adapt to using new technologies. Understand the importance of prioritisation; the value of Minimal Viable Products (MVPs); and the advantages of following an iterative approach. Are comfortable with uncertainty – the problems you’ll be working on won't always have a well-defined answer from the beginning. Are happy to work in cross-functional teams; and collaborate closely with other software engineers, designers, product managers, and domain specialists. Are self-driven and will proactively act to unblock work by engaging with others. Note: Please do not submit AI generated responses to the applicaiton questions; we will reject your application if you do this. Genpax is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
Remote Senior Frontend Engineer in Plymouth
