If your background is in software development, cloud services, SaaS product and Dev/Ops, this is a great opportunity to build a long-term career and work with some of the country’s most highly skilled individuals in the environmental DNA (eDNA) community.

• Design, develop & maintain applications to enable ingestion, rapid access, & analysis of data to accelerate discovery & enable decisions across Digital, Bioinformatics and Products teams.
• Maintain infrastructure that allows us to process, integrate & analyse biodiversity & geospatial data.
• Collaborate with colleagues to rapidly specify, implement & deploy fit-to-purpose data pipelines.
• Evaluate commercial & open-source tools to improve our data pipelines.
• Maintain data engineering documentation.
• Participate in Sprints, Scrums & other ceremonies.
• Produce business updates/reports.

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  • BSc/MSc in computer science, software engineering, information technology, or a related field.
  • Programming experience in scripting languages such as Python or Go, using version control, Git & continuous integration environments. 
  • Used to designing relational schemas to capture & represent multi-type data.
  • Able to design complex queries to generate clear representations of data from complex relational schemas across SQL/NoSQL platforms.
• Nice to Have
  • Software experience with Geospatial technologies.
  • Experience with a cloud data warehouse/data lake.
  • Experience of cloud migrations.

We offer great personal development opportunities and roles with breadth, depth of scope and impact. We also offer comprehensive packages including:

• Salary circa £55k
• 25 days holiday excluding bank holidays
• Company pension
• Flexible 40-hour week (core hours 10am to 4pm)
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Enhanced family friendly policy
• Dedicated well-being room
• Health insurance
• Life assurance
• Personal Development Budget

We are advocates of a healthy work life balance and mental wellbeing. We are happy to look at flexible working options for all our roles.

At NatureMetrics diversity and inclusion are part of our DNA. Together, we continue to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports, and celebrates the diverse voices of our employees. It fuels our innovation and connects us to the communities we work with. Our values leave no space for stereotypes. We are all unique and pull together for a common purpose.

We are an expanding science-based SME with a bright future. As a world leader in delivering nature data and intelligence, NatureMetrics brings the power of genetics to frontline environmental management. Our products allow our customers to make better decisions for business and nature. We now have an exciting scale up plan backed by ambitious and supportive investors, with a mandate to ‘bring nature into the boardroom;’ helping companies understand their impact on biodiversity and the benefits of protecting it. We are a team of bright, enthusiastic individuals who are excited to be breaking new ground and disrupting the world of biodiversity monitoring. We take great pride in our work and are seeking new team members who will do the same.