Software Engineer (Data Services), London

Isomorphic Labs
London2026-03-31

About the job

This is an exciting opportunity for versatile software engineers to be working in a fast-paced and research-facing environment within a small team. You will contribute significantly to a world-class ML-based software platform set to transform the bio-pharmaceutical world. We need creative thinkers ready to redefine how drugs are designed with the power of AI.

Responsibilities

Software engineering of data services for data storage and integration layers

Ingestion, transformation and serving of scientific data for scientific applications

Building a state-of-the-art platform for conducting research with high velocity and reliability

Collaboration with scientist and ML researchers on project work

Qualifications

Minimum

Experience in data engineering and service-oriented architectures

Extensive software engineering experience with software design and architecture skills

Extensive enterprise programming experience writing production code using Python

Experience building, deploying, and maintaining secure and scalable production systems on GCP

Experience with Kubernetes and cloud computing

Demonstrated ability to work in multi-disciplinary teams and environments

Great degree of adaptability and a willingness to work across domains and different parts of the tech stack when needed

Demonstrate ongoing career progression / trajectory and a passion for learning

Msc in computer science, or equivalent experience

Preferred

Experience with the management of scientific and experimental wet lab data in a pharma context

Experience with life sciences data, including bioinformatics, computational chemistry, and biomedical research data

Experience building backend systems for web applications, using technologies such as Django, SQLalchemy, Pydantic, PostgreSQL, DBT

Experience designing, implementing and maintaining relational data models with Python-based interfaces

Hands-on experience with cloud engineering in a compute-heavy environment, preferably on GCP