Front End Web Developer

Job Description

Oxford Nanopore Technologies is headquartered at the Oxford Science Park outside Oxford, UK, with satellite offices and commercial presence in many global locations across the US, APAC and Europe.Oxford Nanopore employs from multiple subject areas including nanopore science, molecular biology and applications, informatics, engineering, electronics, manufacturing and commercialisation. The management team, led by CEO Dr Gordon Sanghera, has a trackrecord of delivering disruptive technologies to the market.Oxford Nanopores sequencing platform is the only technology that offers real-time analysis (for rapid insights), in fully scalable formats from pocket to population scale, that can analyse native DNA or RNA and sequence any length of fragment to achieveshort to ultra-long read lengths.Our goal is to enable the analysis of any living thing, by anyone, anywhere. We offer real-time nanopore-based DNA/RNA sequencing technology: accessible, easy to use and fully scalable for any requirement!We are looking for a hard-working and innovative Front End Web Developer to join our Metrichor team in Cambridge.The Details... Collaborating with the Associate Director, Metrichor the successful candidate will have an impact the development of customer facing front end UI tools and services of the EPI2ME platform that support downstream, real-time analysis and reporting of experimentaldata from our sequencing devices. Playing an active role in driving user engagement through end-to-end user centric solutions, from technical design to implementation, testing and release to our customer facing portal.Key Responsibilities include:- EPI2ME analysis reports - design and develop new interactive bioinformatics analysis reports - Build a data visualisation component library in collaboration with other ONT teams - Convert design visuals into fully responsive front-end code using modern technologies - Working with colleagues and stakeholders to build and develop specifications - Creating and working on tasks, that are assigned within the current sprint, using Jira - Contributing code to GitLab and performing code reviews for other team membersDuties include:- Developing new customer-facing features in our cross-platform desktop applications and web portal - Write and maintain clean, efficient and well documented codebases - Building re-usable code and contributing to component, and library development - Optimising apps and services for high efficiency, speed, scalability, and accessibility - Working closely with internal stakeholders to develop requirements for new features - Implementing tools and services on a variety of device form factors, from mobile to desktopWhat Were Looking For... You will demonstrate a solid foundation in core web technologies and standards including HTML, CSS and JS. We will expect you to have a proven track record of delivering customer facing web applications using modern JS frameworks (e.g. VueJS/React) and CSSpre-processors (e.g. SCSS/Sass). Youll have prior experience of a CI/CD environment as a member of an agile team. Youll also have a degree in a computer science related subject area (or equivalent experience) and be proficient in: - JavaScript (vanilla, ES6), HTML, CSS - Git - Typescript - Jest/Karma test frameworksCandidates will also benefit from having experience with the following: - Playwright - Storybook - PWA for Mobile - NodeJS and NPM ecosystem - Data visualisation - Design systems - Electron - Build systems (eg. Rollup, Webpack) - Web components - Gitlab CI/CD - StencilJSYou will be a good communicator and confident about discussing technical matters with non-technical colleagues and customers. Youre results orientated with a positive can-do attitude who is able to work autonomously and as part of the team.This role will suit someone who enjoys working in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.We offer outstanding benefits to include an attractive bonus, generous pension contributions, private healthcare and an excellent starting salary.If you are looking to utilise your skills to really make a difference to humankind, then consider joining our team and apply today!Please note that no terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of a persons gender, marital status, race, religion, colour, age, disability or sexual orientation. Every candidate will be assessed only in accordance with theirmerits, qualifications and abilities to perform the duties of the job. #li-jc1