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Posted Date: Sep
Why GSK?
At GSK, we have already delivered unprecedented change over the past four years, improving R&D, becoming a leader inConsumer Health, strengthening our leadership, and transforming our commercial execution. Now, we're making the biggestchanges we've made to our business in over 20 years.We're on track to separate and create two new companies in 2022:New GSK with a leading portfolio of vaccines and specialty medicines as well as R&D based on immune system and geneticsscience; and a new world-leading consumer healthcare company of loved and trusted brands.
With new ambition comes new purpose. For New GSK, this is to unite science, talent and technology to get ahead of diseasetogether - all with the clear ambition of delivering human health impact; stronger and more sustainable shareholder returns; andas a new GSK where outstanding people thrive.
Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it. How we do all this is through our people and our culture. A culturethat isambitious for patients- so we deliver what matters better and faster;accountable for impact- with clear ownership ofgoals and support to succeed; andwhere we do the right thing. So, if you're ready to improve the lives of billions, join us at thisexciting moment in our journey. Join our challenge to get Ahead Together.
Job title:
Senior full-stack software engineer
Overview
At GSK, we are actively working on building a future in which Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) will enable us to develop new therapies and personalized drugs that drive better outcomes for patients at reduced cost with fewer side effects. It is an ambitious goal that requires the research and development of solutions at the cutting edge of biomedical Machine Learning and AI.
Job purpose:
We're looking for a Senior Full-Stack Engineer to join our cross-functional AI/ML UX Engineering team. Our team works at the intersection of AI/ML and science and is responsible for building user-facing products that GSK scientists use in their day-to-day work to accelerate drug discovery. We're a fairly new team of product engineers within the AI/ML group, have already made a significant impact, and are seeking a product-focused senior engineer to help us scale.
Your Responsibilities:
- Help build the web applications that our scientists use day-to-day to discover new drugs through AI/ML insights.
- Work with our cross-functional team (engineers, designers, product managers, user researchers) to define and deliver features in an iterative manner.
- Own solutions end-to-end from initial planning through to production.
- Write maintainable and testable front-end code using React and Typescript.
- Design and implement efficient backend APIs (GraphQL, REST) that can scale to large amount of data.
- Contribute to the design of the architecture and infrastructure of our UX products to supports the growing need and impact of user-facing apps in the AI/ML group.
- Help our team continuously improve our tech stack and processes by actively participating in our innovation days and retrospectives.
- Help other engineers grow through code reviews and mentoring or pairing.
Our team works remotely in the UK and Ireland with occasional face-to-face meetups at our offices in the budding tech hub of Kings Cross, London.
Why you?
Basic Qualifications:
We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:
- Good experience as a software engineer.
- You have a proven track record of developing production-ready full-stack web applications and supporting them after release.
- You're product- and user-focused. You love working in cross-functional teams and bringing your technical expertise to discussions with non-technical stakeholders to help define better user experiences.
- You have deep expertise in React or another modern front-end framework.
- You have a solid understanding of the security and privacy challenges of web applications and backend APIs. You have demonstrable experience of addressing them effectively.
- You have a solid understanding of different types of data stores (e.g. relational, document-oriented, KV and graph databases, blob storage). You have experience of data modelling and using the right data store for the job.
Preferred Qualifications:
If you have the following skills, it would be a plus:
- You have experience working with data visualisation libraries for the web and solving challenging data visualisation problems (creating custom visualisations, rendering very large data sets).
- You have strong communication skills, you listen well and you show great empathy for users and other team members. You're able to explain complex concepts clearly and effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- You enjoy mentoring colleagues and seeing them grow. You love working with your team to iterate on their processes, coding standards, and tech stack. You have a growth mindset and strive for continuous improvement.
- A working knowledge of Python would be a plus but is not required for this role. While we don't use Python in our team, the language is widely used by our AI/ML engineers.
The AI/ML team is built on the principles of ownership, accountability, continuous development, and collaboration. We hire for the long term, and we're motivated to make this a great place to work. Our leaders will be committed to your career and development from day one.
GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose - to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together - so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns - as an organisation where people can thrive. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to impact the health of 2.5 billion people around the world in the next 10 years.
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