Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack (Hyderabad)

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer – Full Stack

Reporting to: Delivery Lead

Department: Engineering

Competency Level: P4

Location: Hyderabad

This is your opportunity to join a pioneering company working at the intersection of two exciting areas; life sciences and data science. We’re at the centre of the digital reinvention of life sciences R&D, using the latest technologies to enable data-driven discovery.

We’re developing a platform to revolutionise how scientists gain new insight. The platform is already deployed in a range of blue-chip clients in the healthcare, personal care and agritech sectors, enabling them to deliver game changing products and technologies into their respective markets. Our pioneering product vision is generating excitement and we’ve already been recognised for our innovation- our platform modules have been ‘Best of Show’ winners and finalists at the leading industry event, BioIT World.

We have offices at the world leading Wellcome Genome Campus near Cambridge, in London and a software development team in Hyderabad, India.

The Job

As we continue on our exciting and pioneering journey at the forefront of life sciences and data science, we are looking for a proactive and creative thinker to implement our platform user interface.

You will:

Reporting to Technical lead, this role will see you taking responsibility in coordinating with Product owners and technical leads, in designing and building scalable and creative UX to expand the services provided by the platform.

Collaborate: You will have the ability to individually manage a module or set of modules and / or related engineering team. You will be having an active design session with Technical leads and architects to come out with implementable designs. You will collaborate with others on projects and contribute to regular meetings such as stand ups, making use of your excellent team working skills in a very agile way.

Design: We believe that technologies and languages can be learned but good programming and analytical skills are very important.

Stakeholder management: Combined with your passion for development and learning will be demonstrated by your up-to-date knowledge of best practices and approaches as well as your ability to contribute ideas and suggest changes. we love to hear from you. You can be expert in your choice of technology or full-stack engineer, we would love you to be part of our team

Scale: This role presents an excellent opportunity to help shape our platform offering for the future and develop your career with a company that is at the cutting edge of data science and life sciences

Requirements

Your Essential Knowledge, Skills & Experience

Build dynamic, visually attractive, end-to-end, and innovative software product/apps including front-end and back-end.

Able to design the user experience, user interaction, responsive design, and complete architecture.

Build Responsive web pages using front end technologies (React JS, JavaScript, CSS and HTML)

Build REST API (Application Programming Interface), Backend Components

Able to work with databases, servers, APIs, version control systems, and third-party apps

Provide insights on continuous improvement and add/remove functionality as per needs

Design strategy for continuous enhancement, performance optimization, stability, and scalability

Develop API, DB, UI High level Design and Low-level Design in a micro-services architecture

Stay updated with new tools, frameworks, approaches, and architectures in the development world

Ensure cross-platform compatibility and fixing issues during test and production phases

Design, develop, test, and deploy new code to meet the Business needs of the stories and features

Maintain and enhance existing code to improve our software and minimize the technical debt of the platform

Respond to changing/revised business needs

Unit, API, and UI test development

Respond to communications from team members in a timely fashion

Ensure the final product is highly performant, responsive, and of the highest quality

Actively participate in agile ceremonies including daily scrum, story pointing, story elaboration, and retrospectives

High-energy, detail-oriented, and proactive with the ability to function under pressure in an independent environment

Desirable Skills and Experience

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree or e