Python | Engineering Manager | Cambridge

Congenica is a digital health company enabling the rapid analysis and interpretation of genomic data, empowering researchers and clinicians to provide life-changing answers that improve wellbeing and disease management. Our world-leading software enables rapid genomic data analysis at scale and is the only product of its kind that has received the CE Mark under the In Vitro Diagnostics Directive.

As a recognised leader in the genomic analysis of rare diseases and inherited cancer, Congenica is now expanding its platform into new indications such as somatic cancer, next generation non-invasive pre-natal diagnosis and wellness, helping to deliver a future where clinical genomics is fully integrated into healthcare and with the goal of providing life-changing answers for individuals and their families.

Based on pioneering research from the Wellcome Sanger Institute and the UK NHS, Congenica has a global footprint supporting leading international laboratories, academic medical centres and biopharmaceutical companies and is the exclusive Clinical Decision Support partner for the NHS Genomic Medicine Service.

Working at Congenica you will have the opportunity to have a real impact on the lives of people around the world and add value to the business, while doing something that you love.

What you’ll be doing 

 
As Principal Engineer you will be joining an exciting team with the opportunity to heavily influence the engineering culture and direction. This is a hands-on engineering role where you’ll combine your technical expertise with your architectural judgement. 

You’ll be coaching and mentoring our engineering teams to a high level of technical and operational excellence. This could involve conducting a technical solution review, leading workshops, or simply pairing with engineers to deliver working software. 

This is a hybrid role where ideally, you’d spend a minimum of 2 days in the office each month, but, if possible, at least once a week. 

 
What will you be responsible for? 

• Working with our Head of Architecture to lead engineering in a technical and architectural capacity for our core platform. Setting and delivering the next stage in platform evolution.  
• Lead hands on implementation of solutions by partnering with our engineers across all levels.  
• Coach and mentor engineers, recognizing when team members require support and help with their professional development.
• Be a trusted authority that our team members and managers look to for advice and guidance that ranges from best practices to providing the best solutions to our technical challenges.
• Promote modern architectural and technical practices leading our developer experience assisting with writing and maintaining guidelines, resolving design issues, and collaborating with teams to give clear, pragmatic forward thinking advice.

What skills, experience and qualification do you need to succeed in this role? 

Strong experience in:  

• Promoting modern engineering practices – CI/CD, TDD, Clean Code, pair programming, DevSecOps.  
• Modern distributed architecture patterns and cloud technologies. 
• Modern Python.
• Testing automation and embedding a test automation first mindset. 
• Designing and developing systems for high availability and scalability. 
• Proven track record of mentoring / coaching other developers. 
• Understand how to balance speed, quality and functionality and communicate where the trade-offs are being made. 

Behavioural Qualities 

• Friendly, approachable and builds positive personal and organisational relationships.
• Self-motivated and results driven.
• Natural problem-solver.
• Enthusiastic, hardworking, well organised, and able to prioritise.
• Able to work with others, and willing to contribute to team.
• Comfortable with experimentation and shaping ambiguity to build consensus.

If this sounds like you and you'd like to join a growing company, then apply now!

Congenica is dedicated to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.