Software Engineer

Software Engineer

• Design, build, test and maintain reliable software across our customer platform ecosystem.
• Develop and maintain APIs, integrations and services connecting customer-facing applications with platforms such as Salesforce and Dynamics 365.
• Help modernise legacy applications and progressively reduce technical debt and unnecessary complexity.
• Build secure, scalable and maintainable solutions using appropriate engineering patterns and standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Work closely with Product Owners, UX, architects and other engineers to turn customer and business needs into working software.
• Contribute to technical design and architecture discussions, challenging solutions constructively where there is a better approach.
• Improve automated testing, deployment, monitoring and observability.
• Diagnose and resolve production issues, identifying root causes rather than simply treating symptoms.
• Participate in code reviews and help maintain high engineering standards across the team.
• Contribute to continuous improvement in our development practices, tooling and ways of working.
• Share knowledge and support other engineers across the team.

Qualifications/Experience:

• Strong commercial software development experience using Python

• Experience building modern web applications, backend services and/or APIs.

• Good understanding of software engineering principles, design patterns and maintainable code.

• Experience with REST APIs and integrating multiple systems.

• Experience with relational databases and SQL.

• Familiarity with cloud-based application architectures.

• Experience with automated testing and CI/CD.

• Understanding of application security, performance and observability.

• Experience working with Git and modern development workflows.

• Confidence working in an environment containing both modern and legacy technologies.

• A pragmatic approach to balancing technical quality, customer value and delivery.

• Nice to have

Experience in any of the following would be useful, but isn’t essential:

• Ruby / Ruby on Rails

• JavaScript / TypeScript and modern frontend frameworks

• AWS

• Salesforce integrations

• Microsoft Dynamics 365 integrations

• Identity, authentication and customer account platforms

• Integration platforms and event-driven architectures

• Ecommerce or complex transactional platforms

• Modernising or decomposing legacy applications

• Please note that no terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of a person's gender, marital status, race, religion, colour, age, disability or sexual orientation. Every candidate will be assessed only in accordance with their merits, qualifications and abilities to perform the duties of the job.

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About Us

Oxford Nanopore Technologies: Our goal is to bring the widest benefits to society through enabling the analysis of anything, by anyone, anywhere. The company has developed a new generation of nanopore-based sensing technology for faster, information rich, accessible and affordable molecular analysis. The first application is DNA/RNA sequencing, and the technology is in development for the analysis of other types of molecules including proteins. The technology is used to understand and characterise the biology of humans and diseases such as cancer, plants, animals, bacteria, viruses, and whole environments. With a thriving culture of ambition and strong innovation goals, Oxford Nanopore is a UK headquartered company with global operations and customers in more than 125 countries.

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Job Info

Job Identification 3266

Job Category Business Operations

Posting Date 10/01/2026, 03:49 AM

Apply Before 10/30/2026, 09:00 PM

Job Schedule Full time

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