Senior Backend Engineer

Bactobio is a young London-based biotechnology company. We use breakthrough technologies in synthetic biology, next-generation sequencing, and machine learning to cultivate the 99% previously unculturable microbes. These microbes constitute the biggest bioresource in life, and our exclusive access allows us to discover novel chemicals that can be applied across a variety of markets.
We are impact-driven. Our first goal is to solve the growing antimicrobial resistance crisis through novel antibiotics and stabilise global food security through novel natural biodegradable fungicides.

Role Team:

• Software is critical to our scientific endeavours. Youll join the growing software team that builds and enhances the application and infrastructure used by our scientists to accelerate their search for novel compounds.
• The application gives the lab scientists a holistic view of the scientific pipeline, ensuring that data is captured, processed and visualized in a way that optimises the flow of scientific samples from team to team.
• Work closely with dozens of world-class lab scientists, bioinformaticians, data scientists, and robot automation engineers, turning their requirements for research functionality into user-friendly features.
• Our stack is Python 3, SQLAlchemy, FastAPI, RQ, MySQL with a frontend in Remix, React, TypeScript, CSS Modules with OpenAPI-based API client generation for TypeScript.
• We emphasize code quality, employing reviews on top of static analysis tools (pyright, ruff, ruff format) with plenty of tests in place to maintain a high-quality codebase.

Responsibilities:

• Delivering reliable, tested, typed, clean Python code to improve our application
• Modelling our scientific domain in code
• Working alongside subject-matter experts and quickly absorbing their knowledge of our scientific pipeline
• Optimising the infrastructure that we run our application scientific pipelines on
• Communicating well in cross-functional teams alongside bioinformaticians and data scientists to ensure that our backend aligns with business priorities
• Having a very user-focused way of approaching problems
• Thinking about how the backend work impacts our users on the frontend and evaluating different approaches based on whats best for the user
• Giving input on the architecture of new and existing projects
• Advising on current trends and best practices in backend architecture (performance, accessibility, security and usability)
• Shipping work at a fast pace, where you can make change happen in days, not months

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