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Senior Software Developer - Team 117 – Ref: 80477

The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is a world leader in genomic research, with an expanding scientific programme dedicated to understanding gene function in health & disease.

We are looking for developers who can work in agile teams of 3-4 people solving problems in close collaboration with researchers and laboratory staff on site. Due to the innovative nature of research we work in short iterations to stay on target as the focus changes. The role has a high level of responsibility due to the large degree of freedom you will have in building the solutions. There will also be the opportunity to select which technologies are used. Your primary role will be working on our Sequencescape suite, which is a collection of tools for supporting research workflow and laboratory processes. Working closely with users to ascertain their requirements, you will design and implement reusable software solutions.

Essential Skills
• Worked with Ruby on Rails or other web framework.
• As comfortable with writing native JavaScript as with building on frameworks.
• Semantic HTML, CSS, browsers.
• Debugging tools.
• Setting up and running automated front-end test suites, preferably using Selenium.
• Understanding of the full web app stack. Database abstraction, request modelling, templating, URL mapping, preferably using PHP and Smarty.
• Agile processes, test-driven development, estimation.
• Usability testing
• Protecting against browser and web app security exploits.
• Performance optimisation around HTTP requests, bandwidth, rendering, script execution.
• Web service development, authentication, oAuth, JSONP, XML parsing.
• Unix command line and source control, preferably Subversion/Git.

Ideal Skills
Experience with financial, logistic or other time critical systems would be an advantage. Knowledge of genetics is a strong plus but not essential.

Other information
The Production Software team's central remit is to provide scientific software to support the sequencing and genomic analysis work done at the Sanger Institute. We are a highly visible team, providing high quality, scalable software that plays a central role in the continuing success of the Institute. We are involved in a wide variety of projects ranging from laboratory automation to medical informatics.

Benefits
The Institute has excellent purpose built facilities on the Genome Campus, Hinxton on the outskirts of Cambridge. We offer a comprehensive range of benefits including a final salary pension scheme and excellent on-site facilities. Further details can be found on our website https://jobs.sanger.ac.uk,

To submit your CV and apply for this job please go to https://jobs.sanger.ac.uk, to register and apply on line.

Salary range £27316 to £37690 dependent on experience.

Closing Date is: 22nd November 2009