Research Software Developer

We are seeking an enthusiastic and skilled Research Software Developer to join the International Severe Acute Respiratory and emerging Infection Consortium (ISARIC) team at the Pandemic Sciences Institute (PSI) within the Nuffield Department of Medicine (NDM). This role offers the opportunity to contribute to a globally recognised platform that supports rapid, evidence-based responses to emerging infectious diseases.

As a member of our team, you will work alongside clinicians, data scientists, epidemiologists, software engineers, and statisticians to support the ongoing development, maintenance, and testing of the suite of tools and platforms developed by ISARIC. Your work will play a key role in enabling better data capture, sharing, and analysis across global clinical research efforts.

• Refactor and maintain the codebase of existing ISARIC tools and applications, leading the development of new features and functionalities to meet evolving needs of ISARIC members, users, and researchers.
• Ensure code reliability, modularity, and scalability through automated testing and CI/CD pipelines.
• Oversee deployment, monitoring, and optimisation of applications in AWS environments.
• Manage and integrate databases to support ISARIC's software ecosystem and ensure all tools remain robust, user-friendly, and well-documented.

• Postgraduate or equivalent qualification in Computer Science, Engineering or Data Science.
• Professional experience demonstrating expertise in Python and AWS; experience maintaining production-level codebases is essential.

This position is offered full time on a fixed term contract for 24 months and is funded by the Wellcome Trust.