Software Engineer
Oxford Nanopore Technologies13 hours ago
Oxford, United KingdomMid Level
Responsibilities
- Design, build, test, and maintain reliable software across the customer platform ecosystem.
- Develop and maintain APIs, integrations, and services connecting customer-facing applications with Salesforce and Microsoft Dynamics 365.
- Modernize legacy applications and reduce technical debt and unnecessary complexity.
- Build secure, scalable, and maintainable solutions using appropriate engineering patterns and standards.
- Collaborate with Product Owners, UX, architects, and engineers to turn customer and business needs into working software.
- Contribute to technical design, architecture discussions, code reviews, engineering standards, and continuous improvement.
- Improve automated testing, deployment, monitoring, and observability.
- Diagnose and resolve production issues by identifying root causes.
- Share knowledge and support other engineers across the team.
Requirements
- Strong commercial software development experience using Python.
- Experience building modern web applications, backend services, and/or APIs.
- Understanding of software engineering principles, design patterns, and maintainable code.
- Experience with REST APIs and integrating multiple systems.
- Experience with relational databases and SQL.
- Familiarity with cloud-based application architectures.
- Experience with automated testing and CI/CD.
- Understanding of application security, performance, and observability.
- Experience with Git and modern development workflows.
- Confidence working with both modern and legacy technologies.
- A pragmatic approach to balancing technical quality, customer value, and delivery.
- Useful but nonessential experience includes Ruby, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, TypeScript, modern frontend frameworks, AWS, Salesforce integrations, Microsoft Dynamics 365 integrations, identity and authentication platforms, event-driven architectures, ecommerce or transactional platforms, and legacy application modernization.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement is indicated.
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About Oxford Nanopore Technologies
Oxford Nanopore Technologies builds nanopore-based DNA/RNA sequencing platforms, consumables, and analysis software used by researchers, biopharma, healthcare, and public health labs. Its portfolio includes portable and high-throughput instruments with real-time data streaming, plus EPI2ME workflows. Founded in 2005 as a University of Oxford spin-out and headquartered in Oxford, it is listed on the London Stock Exchange and reports customers in more than 125 countries.