Senior Software Engineer (Cloud)

• We are looking for an experienced full-stack software engineer to work on our customer-facing cloud and instrument software as well as the internal tools that support our in-house protein screening services
• You’ll be involved in the full software development lifecycle, including working closely with biologists and other stakeholders to define use-cases and requirements, translating those requirements into technical designs, implementing those designs in code and writing tests to verify its correctness

Benefits

• Private Health Insurance - Everyone at Nuclera can enjoy a private health insurance scheme
• Generous Holidays - Everyone in the UK and the USA enjoys a 25 days annual leave per year
• Stock Option - Generous stock options in addition to our competitive salary
• Life Insurance - We offer up to 4x your salary in your life insurance package
• Pension Scheme - Whether it’s UK pension or 401(k) in the USA, we have you covered
• Refreshment - Fresh fruit, tea, coffee and snacks in the office

• No prior knowledge of biology is necessary, but curiosity and an eagerness to learn is critical
• Are confident working across backend, frontend, dev-ops and QA
• Are ready to take ownership of code and keep it up-to-date with the latest best-practices
• Have a product mindset, with a track record of gathering requirements, owning features end to end, and working directly with key stakeholders to deliver the right outcome
• Have at least 5 years industry experience as a software engineer
• HTML, CSS and TypeScript or JavaScript
• A backend web framework (e.g. Micronaut, Spring)
• React or an equivalent frontend technology (e.g. Angular)
• Containerisation (e.g. Docker, Podman)
• Automated build and deployment pipelines
• REST and Websocket APIs
• Automated testing (e.g. JUnit, Mockito, pytest)
• Google Cloud or an equivalent cloud service provider (e.g. AWS, Azure)
• Version control in Git
• Java and Python
• Java Reactive Streams
• Asynchronous Python
• PostgreSQL
• Kubernetes, Helm, Flux, Terraform
• Figma, Balsamiq
• GitLab CI
• Claude Code or an equivalent AI coding assistant
• Experience with bioinformatics data processing pipelines