Python Job: Full Stack Developer (VueJS-Python)

Reference: DT-181c
Title: Full Stack Developer (VueJS/Python)
Day Rate: Up to £500
Job Type: Contract
IR35: Outside
Duration: 6-months
Location: Fully Remote (UK only)
Start date: ASAP

Description of Project
To operate as a developer, taking ownership for the development of robust, maintainable, and performant software products for the Covid-19 Surveillance Project. Developing technology solutions rapidly to meet the complex and changing needs of users and obtaining the appropriate balance so that solutions are not over or under engineered.

Role

• Registering surveys and tracking/ receiving results from genetic samples using a web-based portal.
• Using workflow to track on-boarding, sample processing, and data production processes.
• Tracking of each sample, its metadata and provenance throughout the sample’s life-cycle, including analysis,
• enabling fully curated data, sample tracking and automated service delivery KPIs
• To work collaboratively with a core team of product managers, developers, testers and data analysts to ensure
• the development and refinement of software products.
• Contributing to the overall application architecture and design, reinforcing best practice methods of integration to a range of data sets as well as the future extensibility of the product.

Your Responsibilities

• Building infrastructure to link key data flows, including genome sequences and critical “when and where” meta-data related to tested individuals.
• Deploying data summaries and visualisations to help extract key messages as clearly as possible for public health authorities.
• Creating and maintaining high quality software systems to produce these outputs in a sustainable way.

Key Tech

• Frontend - Vue3, Vite, Pinia, Composable API, Single File Components, JavaScript, HTML, CSS
• Backend - Python 3.6+, Flask, SQLAlchemy, OpenApi, PostgreSQL

Technical Skills

• 3+ years experience with Vue & Python
• Flask experience and exposure to SQLAlchemy
• Familiarity with web-based technologies (HTML / CSS / JavaScript) and modern web development techniques
• Knowledge and experience with modern software development practices, including version control, continuous
• integration, unit testing and workflow management tools such as Jira, Gitlab, etc.
• Experience of Agile Software Development methods such as SCRUM
• Familiarity with SQL, databases, and database design
• Experience working with a wide variety of technologies and on diverse problems
• Experience of CI/CD and containerisation (Docker, Singularity)
• Great communication skills
• Be a role model to other developers in the team, ensuring consistency in approach and collaborating with the
• team lead to develop application development standards that can be consistently applied

Essential Experience

• Experience of Agile Software Development methods developing and integrating full-stack for deployment in cloud environments
• Experience in developing systems that capture, verify and maintain field generated metadata
• Knowledge and experience with modern software development practices, including version control, continuous integration, and workflow management tools such as Jira, Gitlab, etc.
• Experience in working with a wide variety of technologies and on diverse problems
• Ability to quickly understand scientific, technical and process challenges and break down complex problems into actionable steps
• Ability to work in a frequently changing environment with the capability to interpret management information to amend plans
• Ability to prioritise, manage workload, and deliver agreed activities consistently on time
• Strategic thinking, ability to see the ‘bigger picture’
• Ability to build collaborative working relationships with internal and external stakeholders at all levels
• Desire to make a difference to public health interventions as quickly as possible

Desirable Experience

• Familiarity with multiple back-end and front-end languages and libraries, databases, database design, web servers, web services, APIs, and UI/UX design
• Degree in quantitative sciences (e.g. statistics, computer science, physics)
• Experience working with scientists and data analysts on co-developed software
• Experience of integrating workflow engines and document management to deliver solutions that support a business process

Job Types: Temporary contract, Freelance
Contract length: 6 months

Salary: Up to £500.00 per day

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Reference ID: DT-181c