Software Engineer (Python & AWS)

Location: London, England, United Kingdom; hybrid working with office attendance expected at least twice per month

Salary from: £73,500 per annum

Company

hirify.global enables genomic medicine and research through national-scale genomic healthcare, whole genome sequencing, and clinical and research data systems.

What you will do

• Design and enable future-facing research cohorts end to end.
• Write clean, scalable Python code and develop processing solutions for long-read sequencing data.
• Design and maintain resilient, high-performance AWS services across cloud and on-premises infrastructure.
• Work on distributed systems that process large genomic datasets at scale.
• Build and evolve test automation frameworks and troubleshoot issues with colleagues.
• Use GitLab, Jira, and Confluence in an agile engineering environment.

Requirements

• Strong Python skills and experience building scalable backend services.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, microservice architectures, and containerised environments.
• Experience working on data-heavy or distributed systems.
• Familiarity with agile delivery and test-driven development.
• BSc in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• Self-sufficiency, collaboration, and openness to learning from others.

Nice to have

• Orchestration skills and experience with Terraform.
• Experience with big data tools such as Spark or AWS Glue.
• Strong code review practices and some JavaScript knowledge.
• Cloud migration and additional AWS knowledge.
• Experience with orchestration, data flows, and solution building.

Culture & Benefits

• Blended working model with flexible working patterns; most employees attend an office at least twice per month, according to the role and team agreement.
• 30 days of holiday plus bank holidays, long-service leave, and the option to apply for up to 30 days of remote working abroad annually.
• Enhanced family leave, pension contributions with employer double-matching up to 10%, life assurance, and financial schemes.
• Individual learning budgets, training and certification support, and reimbursement for one annual professional subscription.
• Health and wellbeing benefits including subsidised gym membership, Headspace, an Employee Assistance Programme, eye tests, and flu jabs.
• Visa sponsorship is not available. Successful candidates must complete a Standard DBS check and disclose previous offences at application.