Software Developer/Senior Software Developer

Central Scotland/Remote UK

Aridhia Informatics provides a platform of software services designed to support best practice in healthcare analytics. At its core, Aridhia’s Digital Research Environment platform provides secure, cloud-based workspaces to allow distributed, multi-disciplinary research teams to share data and collaborate.

We are seeking a talented Software Developer to join our Product Delivery team. Responsibilities include working in an Agile team to build successful products that meet a broad range of customer needs.

What’s in it to for you?

In addition to a competitive remuneration package with opportunities to share in our commercial success, we offer the following benefits:

- 35 days annual holiday entitlement, inclusive of three public holidays

- Compressed Working Hours

- Private healthcare for employees and their families

- Death in Service scheme

- Generous Company Pension scheme

- Cycle to Work scheme

- Enhanced maternity, paternity, and sick pay benefits

- Individually tailored induction and personal development plans

- Personal Training Budget

What you’ll be doing...

- Write, review and maintain code as per the Aridhia tech stack

- Work with colleagues to design, develop and deliver features

- Work with 3rd parties (customer, partners) on integrations, developing solutions and solving technical challenges

- Work collaboratively to plan releases, generate cross-team ideas and promote technical knowledge transfer

- Conduct code reviews and help colleagues troubleshoot their code

- Unit and integration testing of developed software components

- Document and socialise solutions

- Define, iterate on, and improve best practices and help teams utilise them

- Mentor less experienced members of the team

- Able to work independently on product features

What you’ll bring….

Essential:

- Experience in at least part of Aridhia's tech stack

- Competency in modern programming languages and methodologies such as Ruby, JavaScript, preferably within a UNIX/Linux environment

- Can demonstrate design, development & delivery of new features

- Can apply best practice coding standards

- Ability to contribute technically across all tiers of Aridhia’s platform services, both web technologies and back-end services

- Understanding of database development

- Show appreciation of all aspects of the software development lifecycle (e.g. requirements, analysis, design, implementation, testing and documentation)

- Experience of Agile development practices

- Experience working with REST APIs

- Knowledge of secure development processes and best practices

- Demonstrate appetite and aptitude to be involved in solving complex technical challenges and furthering knowledge and experience

- Committed to working with and helping other colleagues

Desirable Qualifications/Skills:

- Experience of the source control process using tools such as Azure DevOps, Git or SVN

- Experience of software build pipelines and automation

- Working knowledge of an integrated development environments such as RubyMine, Eclipse or Microsoft Visual Studio

- Experience of building and operating a SaaS/PaaS platform in a public cloud environment (Azure, AWS etc.)

- Experience of presentation layer technologies (HTML 5, CSS, JavaScript)

- Solid understanding of internet and web protocols, and how to develop RESTful APIs

- Experience integrating with third party APIs

- Knowledge of test-driven development (TDD) & behavioural driven design (BDD)

- Experience supporting production systems

- Understanding of Docker, Kubernetes

- Experience of working within a DevOps team

- Integration testing

- Domain experience in healthcare or bioinformatics

- Statistical or numeric computation skills, e.g. familiarity with “R”, Python.

About Aridhia

Aridhia enables clinical and life sciences users to use Cloud services to collaborate, investigate and develop innovative therapies, diagnostics, and care pathways for a range of medical conditions. We do this through Software and Platform as a Service, giving self-service access to secure workspaces for data management, de-identification, statistics and machine learning, cloud computing and interactive visualisation. In this way, a growing number of research hospitals, universities and pharmaceutical companies can ensure confidentiality, compliance, and ethical use of patient data.

Our Aridhia Digital Research Environment (DRE) is built on leading technologies and this role offers the exciting opportunity to join an inclusive, talented and dedicated top-flight technical team and to develop and enhance your experience and skills whilst contributing to the delivery of our roadmap and key strategic projects.

We follow an agile working method with daily team stand-ups, progress boards, and sprints to keep people informed and involved as projects evolve, and to share knowledge across teams. Aridhia is entrepreneurial and ground-breaking. We are creating a market and growing a business; it’s probably unlike anything you’ve done before!

Please note all successful candidates will be required to achieve a Basic Disclosure Scotland Certificate.

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