Full Stack Software Engineer - Pathogen

Led by a world-class faculty of scientists, technologists, policy makers, economists and entrepreneurs, the Ellison Institute of Technology aims to develop and deploy commercially sustainable solutions to solve some of humanity's most enduring challenges. Our work is guided by four Humane Endeavours:
Health, Medical Science & Generative Biology;
Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture;
Climate Change & Managing Atmospheric CO2; and Artificial Intelligence & Robotics.

Set for completion in 2027, the EIT Campus in Littlemore will include more than 300,000 sq ft of research laboratories, educational and gathering spaces. Fuelled by growing ambition and the strength of Oxford's science ecosystem, EIT is now expanding its footprint to a 2 million sq ft Campus across the western part of The Oxford Science Park. Designed by Foster + Partners led by Lord Norman Foster, this will become a transformative workplace for up to 7,000 people, with autonomous laboratories, purpose‑built laboratories including a plant sciences building and dynamic spaces to spark interdisciplinary collaboration.

The Pathogen Mission highlights EIT's transformative approach, using Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) and Oracle's cloud technology to create a global pathogen metagenomics system. This initiative aims to improve diagnostics, provide early epidemic warnings, and guide treatments by profiling antimicrobial resistance. The goal is to deliver certified diagnostic tools for widespread use in labs, hospitals, and public health.

EIT Oxford fosters a culture of collaboration, innovation, and resilience, valuing diverse expertise to drive sustainable solutions to humanity's enduring challenges.

We are seeking to recruit a Full Stack Software Engineer to 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 that manage the full data lifecycle, monitor sequencing device telemetry, and provide the tooling our science teams need to discover and use the data.

• 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 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, Postgre
  
  SQL).
• 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 Postgre
  
  SQL 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 Dev Sec Ops  engineers to ensure that all deployments are automated and adopt best‑practice CI/CD.
• Ensure solutions are documented and assured through defined architecture governance…