Full Stack Engineer

About Sano

Sano matches those with medical conditions with opportunities to contribute to research, via our unique online platform. We also provide personalised medical insights, information and recommendations. The platform is private-by-design. We feel strongly that people should be in full control of their sensitive health data and choose who can access it.

Taking part in research is currently hard to do and a poor experience for the patient. Finding out about opportunities is haphazard, and there is often little meaningful return for those who take the time and care to get involved. The result is that organisations with cutting edge theories and medicines to test, can’t find the right patients to work with. To discover cures for the diseases that affect us and our families, we need to enable people to contribute to medical science, effortlessly and on their own terms. We founded Sano to enable medical research that is data-driven and puts patients at the centre of the experience.

Our current focus is on neurological and immune conditions (Parkinson’s Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Long COVID amongst others).

A vital part of our offer is free at-home DNA testing. Each patient can then share their genetic data with the studies they wish to contribute to just through a few clicks. In this way, researchers can reach many people who wouldn’t be able to travel, globally, and run their studies much faster and at a lower cost.

Today, the Sano platform is helping thousands of people connect to relevant research projects including clinical trials which are testing new medicines.

Over the next year, we are expanding our product to be a 'patient portal' for national scale precision medicine initiatives such as Genomics England, with the goal of impacting millions of people. We are a team of 21 people today, so this is an exceptional chance to join early in our journey to help define our culture, and the company’s mission.

What you will build

We need a skilled, reliable, and motivated full-stack engineer who can deliver on tasks involving a mix of frontend and backend related skills. For example:

• We’d like to make an open source contribution and make available a free version of our patient research portal that researchers can use in order to start expediting their research and increase the velocity of their research.
• We’d like to continue adding features and functionality to our paid enterprise patient portal product for the likes of Genomics England and other large bioresource partners.
• We want to make it easier for people to join Sano and for Sano users to join research. To do this, we need to build API integrations to securely share data with trusted partners (always with the users permission).

Responsibilities

• Building robust API integrations with third party services
• Writing server code to return data to the client via REST interfaces
• Making careful adjustments to our database schema to accurately model the entities and relationships that are essential for our product.

Requirements

• Experience in SQL database schema design
• Experience in Python programming
• Experience working with both a Javascript (ideally Vue) frontend and Python backend (ideally Flask).
• Experience in Authentication protocols (OAuth, JWT)
• Experience and good habits with Python unit testing
• Solid fundamentals in best practices of building REST interfaces.

Experience with the following would be a plus:

• Experience with Python web frameworks and ORMs e.g. Flask, Peewee, PostgreSQL.
• Experience with client frameworks and datastores such as Vue.js, Vuex, and VuexORM.

Benefits

• Opportunity to define the strategic direction for a quickly growing company
• Company culture driven by transparency, impact, accountability and curiosity
• Flexible/remote working opportunities
• Pension plan
• Employee share options
• 25 working days holiday + 8 bank holidays

Please note: we are unable to sponsor visas for this position

Sano Genetics welcomes applications from all candidates irrespective of age, disability, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief, or marital or civil partnership status. Please note: we are unable to sponsor visas for this position.