PHP / DJANGO Developers grade 7 to 9
Fully remote working. Possible meet-up x 1 or x 2 per year
Current team members based / living in all parts of the British Isles.
Some team members 200+ miles from Oxford
Location
Fully remote working. Possible meet-up x 1 or x 2 per year
Current team members based / living in all parts of the British Isles.
Some team members 200+ miles from Oxford
Job Type
Permanent.
Pay range
(University of Oxford salary bandings)
Grade 7 Developers: £36,000 - £48,000
Grade 8 Developers: £45,000 - £64,000 banding
Grade 9 Developers: £52000 - £82,000
About the Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science
The Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science sits within the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford. They take huge datasets and turn them into traditional academic research papers; but also build live, interactive data-driven tools and services for everyone to use. They are a mixed team of software developers, clinicians, and academics; they pool skills, knowledge, and best practice from each of these three disciplines. They use modern, open methods, sharing all analysis and platform code online to support reproducibility, trust, and efficient re-use. When encountering technical, regulatory, or organisational blockers to the better use of data, they don't give up: they share practical policy insights, to help keep things moving for everyone.
The team have built a revolutionary open-source platform for secure clinical research. Conceived at the start of the COVID-19 crisis, it has been used extensively to produce ground-breaking research using an unprecedented corpus of patient data which is not available anywhere else.
Vacancy openings
Several software engineering openings exist at both junior and senior levels.
Applications are sought from individuals who are passionate about software development (especially web applications). Roles are suitable for candidates in either front-end or back-end development. Roles will focus on implementing (and maintaining) key features, data structures and protocols that power the OpenSAFELY platform.
Candidates at junior level should possess exceptional academic qualifications, ideally a first in a STEM discipline, together with confidence in coding (irrespective of commercial experience or otherwise)
Candidates at mid-senior developer level, should have robust coding experience. PHP ideal.
One role at senior level, will be involved in contributing to the technical direction of the platform and blends hands-on software development with collaborative decision making.
Tech Stack
Python / Django / Javascript / React / Docker / Postgres / SQLite / HTMX
Why Apply through Deerfoot?
- We have been retained as the sole hiring partner to The University of Oxford for these specific hires and are working closely with the senior tech management team. We have been an approved hiring partner for several years.
- Our efforts are dedicated to securing the optimal outcome on your behalf.
- We will donate £1 to The Born Free Foundation for each Deerfoot candidate submission for this project (and every client vacancy we assist with). We are a long-term registered charitable partner to Born Free and are referenced on their website. https://www.bornfree.org.uk/corporate-partners/
- Since 2020, we have operated as a climate action workforce through Ecologi, effectively offsetting the entire carbon footprint of all our employees.
- We work hard to deliver an ethical service that supports individual IT professionals to deliver positive outcomes.
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