Are you passionate about solving customer problems with cutting-edge technologies? Do you have a strong technical background and excellent communication skills? Do you want to work on products having a real positive impact on the world? If so, you might be the perfect fit for our Software Engineer role within the End-To-End Solutions (e2e) team in Cambridge (UK).
Why us
You might work on a range of software products, from Oncology to NIPT, truly making a difference to human health. NIPT stands for non-invasive prenatal testing, which is a method of screening for genetic disorders in unborn babies. Oncology products are related to the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. You will have the opportunity to develop end-to-end solutions that address critical customer problems in a wide variety of areas.
Why you
As a developing software engineer (1-4 years’ experience) you will join a highly skilled team delivering top quality products. If you want to push boundaries and join a culture fuelled by innovation, collaboration and openness, this role could be for you. If you want a brilliant, fast-paced, mission-driven environment, then Illumina is the place for you.
Responsibilities of the role
- Collaborate with product owners and other application developers to design, code, and maintain high quality, cloud-based applications against established processes in a scrum team setting.
- Work with software teams to ensure alignment of architecture to user requirements.
- Occasionally provide technical assistance to escalated production issues.
- Implementation of bugfixes, improvements and new stories.
- Listed responsibilities are an essential, but not exhaustive list, of the usual duties associated with the position. Changes to individual responsibilities may occur due to business needs.
Preferred background, skills and experience
- Knowledge and experience with Java or similar high-level language
- Be curious, detail oriented, and analytical, with a proven ability to learn quickly
- Be customer-focused, team-oriented, and motivated, taking ownership of assigned tasks
- Have proven verbal and written communication skills
- Experience with source control management repositories (such as GIT, SVN, etc.) and CM practices
- Good understanding of object oriented analysis and design
- Demonstrated success in collaborating in a fast-paced team environment and delivering high-quality software products using established agile development methodologies (such as Scrum, Kanban, etc.) against formal schedules
Desired but not essential
- Experience with data persistence technologies (such as relational database)
- Experience with client-side MVC Frameworks (i.e., AngularJS, KnockoutJS)
- Experience with Java based frameworks such as Spring, Spring boot, Hibernate, RabbitMq
- Experience in container-based app development such as Docker
- Experience in Cloud based technologies such as (AWS services, AWS Lambda, SNS, SQS, Kubernetes)
- Nextflow development experience
- Understanding of Genomics, Bioinformatics, or related field of biology
What can you expect
Our team members are bright, energetic, and dedicated - they are the driving force behind our innovation and impact. To attract the best and brightest, we offer a competitive employee benefits program. We view it as a smart investment in our people, one that recognizes the tremendous value they bring to our business every day. At Illumina, we push boundaries. We think beyond the conventional. We dream big. With the energy of so many bright and accomplished people, the opportunities are endless.
Illumina believes that everyone has the ability to make an impact, and we are proud to be an equal opportunities employer committed to providing employment opportunity regardless of sex, race, creed, color, gender, religion, marital status, domestic partner status, age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, pregnancy, military or veteran status, citizenship status, and genetic information.
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