Platform Engineer (Bioinformatics)

Location: Cambridge, UK; hybrid work with purposeful in-person collaboration

Company

hirify.global is a global biopharmaceutical company developing treatments for serious and rare diseases through scientific and data-driven research.

What you will do

• Build and maintain a flexible bioinformatic web ecosystem for wet-lab scientists and data scientists.
• Engineer, optimize, and validate scalable, configurable, production-quality data pipelines.
• Develop, deploy, and maintain cloud-based applications and data workflows on GCP.
• Build and deploy containerized workloads on managed Kubernetes infrastructure.
• Manage CI/CD pipelines, builds, Docker images, and cloud automation using GitHub and GCP.
• Support machine-learning model training, deployment, and inference while collaborating with scientific, IT, security, and cloud teams.

Requirements

• Degree or equivalent experience in computer science, engineering, bioinformatics, biology, machine learning, statistics, or a related field.
• Full-stack development experience with strong Python and JavaScript skills; Svelte experience is preferred.
• Experience with life-sciences applications, workflows, and systems, including drug development, cheminformatics, or bioinformatics.
• Experience designing and maintaining SQL databases, preferably PostgreSQL.
• Experience with GCP, Docker, container-based workflows, GitHub Actions, CI/CD, and Git.
• Strong communication skills and experience collaborating in multidisciplinary teams.

Nice to have

• Kubernetes cluster setup, deployment, and management experience.
• Machine-learning model deployment, GPU-based deep-learning optimization, or drug-discovery tools experience.
• Experience with Pydantic, SQLAlchemy, Nextflow, ArgoCD, Argo Workflows, Terraform, event queues, or external cloud-service integrations.
• UI/UX experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible work schedules with purposeful in-person collaboration.
• Hybrid-friendly technology and IT support for collaboration across locations and time zones.
• Competitive retirement benefits, global equity awards, and participation in an employee stock purchase plan.
• Career development through internal learning, external programs, LinkedIn Learning, and role-specific training.
• Recognition programs and employee resource groups.