Principal Software Engineer

The main duties of this role include:

• Developing new components for our innovative search and Named Entity Recognition platform, used for solving problems with large volumes of text-based data

• Technically own the authentication framework used by SciBite

• Engage with the team to continually improve systems, practices, documentation

while working to deliver excellent customer support

Qualifications/Skills/Experience

The ideal candidate for this role must have:

• 10+ years of Software Engineering experience
• BS Engineering/Computer Science or equivalent experience required; advanced degree preferred

• Extensive experience of designing and developing web-based solutions using java 17 or above, Spring Boot and RESTful APIs in a fast paced, agile environment.

• Confidence to own tasks, work with technical and business stakeholders and see

things through.

• Experience with AWS (principally EC2, S3), CI/CD, working with Devops in Linux based environments.

• Production system experience with Elasticsearch

• Experience with Named Entity Recognition algorithms and practice

• Understanding and experience of deploying code in containers, e.g., docker

Object Orientated concepts and design patterns

• Understanding of modern web authentication flows and hands-on experience of KeyCloak

• Hands on experience of performance tuning Java web applications.

• Hands on experience of customer support

Additionally, any experience in the following would be advantageous:

• Experience in the life sciences or pharmaceutical domains

• Working with Large Language Models to implement features such as chat bots or user interpretation

• A zeal for tackling hard problems and owning solutions.

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