About Us
Oxford Nanopore Technologies is headquartered at the Oxford Science Park outside Oxford, UK, with satellite offices and commercial presence in many global locations across the US, APAC and Europe. Oxford Nanopore employs from multiple subject areas including nanopore science, molecular biology and applications, informatics, engineering, electronics, manufacturing and commercialisation. The management team, led by CEO Francis Van Parys, has a track record of delivering disruptive technologies to the market.
Oxford Nanopore’s sequencing platform is the only technology that offers real-time analysis (for rapid insights), in fully scalable formats from pocket to population scale, that can analyse native DNA or RNA and sequence any length of fragment to achieve short to ultra-long read lengths.
Our goal is to enable the analysis of any living thing, by anyone, anywhere. We offer real-time nanopore-based DNA/RNA sequencing technology: accessible, easy to use and fully scalable for any requirement.
Summary
- Design, build, test and maintain reliable software across our customer platform ecosystem.
- Develop and maintain APIs, integrations and services connecting customer-facing applications with platforms such as Salesforce and Dynamics 365.
- Help modernise legacy applications and progressively reduce technical debt and unnecessary complexity.
- Build secure, scalable and maintainable solutions using appropriate engineering patterns and standards.
Key Responsibilities:
- Work closely with Product Owners, UX, architects and other engineers to turn customer and business needs into working software.
- Contribute to technical design and architecture discussions, challenging solutions constructively where there is a better approach.
- Improve automated testing, deployment, monitoring and observability.
- Diagnose and resolve production issues, identifying root causes rather than simply treating symptoms.
- Participate in code reviews and help maintain high engineering standards across the team.
- Contribute to continuous improvement in our development practices, tooling and ways of working.
- Share knowledge and support other engineers across the team.
Qualifications/Experience:
- Strong commercial software development experience using Python
- Experience building modern web applications, backend services and/or APIs.
- Good understanding of software engineering principles, design patterns and maintainable code.
- Experience working with REST APIs and integrating multiple systems.
- Experience with relational databases and SQL.
- Familiarity with cloud-based application architectures.
- Experience with automated testing and CI/CD.
- Understanding of application security, performance and observability.
- Experience working with Git and modern development workflows.
- Confidence working in an environment containing both modern and legacy technologies.
- A pragmatic approach to balancing technical quality, customer value and delivery.
Nice to have
Experience in any of the following would be useful, but isn’t essential:
- Ruby / Ruby on Rails
- JavaScript / TypeScript and modern frontend frameworks
- AWS
- Salesforce integrations
- Microsoft Dynamics 365 integrations
- Identity, authentication and customer account platforms
- Integration platforms and event-driven architectures
- Ecommerce or complex transactional platforms
- Modernising or decomposing legacy applications
Please note that no terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of a person's gender, marital status, race, religion, colour, age, disability or sexual orientation. Every candidate will be assessed only in accordance with their merits, qualifications and abilities to perform the duties of the job.
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Oxford Nanopore Technologies: Our goal is to bring the widest benefits to society through enabling the analysis of anything, by anyone, anywhere. The company has developed a new generation of nanopore-based sensing technology for faster, information rich, accessible and affordable molecular analysis. The first application is DNA/RNA sequencing, and the technology is in development for the analysis of other types of molecules including proteins. The technology is used to understand and characterise the biology of humans and diseases such as cancer, plants, animals, bacteria, viruses, and whole environments. With a thriving culture of ambition and strong innovation goals, Oxford Nanopore is a UK headquartered company with global operations and customers in more than 125 countries.
Skills Required
- Strong commercial software development experience using Python
- Experience building modern web applications, backend services, or APIs
- Understanding of software engineering principles, design patterns, and maintainable code
- Experience with REST APIs and integrating multiple systems
- Experience with relational databases and SQL
- Familiarity with cloud-based application architectures
- Experience with automated testing and CI/CD
- Understanding of application security, performance, and observability
- Experience working with Git and modern development workflows
- Confidence working with modern and legacy technologies
- Pragmatic approach to balancing technical quality, customer value, and delivery
- Experience with Ruby or Ruby on Rails
- Experience with JavaScript, TypeScript, and modern frontend frameworks
- Experience with AWS
- Experience with Salesforce integrations
- Experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 integrations
- Experience with identity, authentication, and customer account platforms
- Experience with integration platforms and event-driven architectures
- Experience with ecommerce or complex transactional platforms
- Experience modernizing or decomposing legacy applications
Oxford Nanopore Technologies Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Oxford Nanopore Technologies and has not been reviewed or approved by Oxford Nanopore Technologies.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered good to above average across many roles, with employer-provided ranges visible for several U.S. commercial and applications positions and company materials emphasizing market‑competitive base pay. Commercial and some senior technical posts, particularly in the U.S., are positioned as competitive and often paired with strong variable components.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — All‑employee share plans in the UK and a U.S. employee stock purchase plan indicate broad access to equity as part of total reward. Company communications highlight attractive bonus and share plans that add meaningful upside beyond base pay.
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Healthcare Strength — U.S. roles indicate strong health insurance and core protections, while official materials and country overviews reference private medical coverage and wellbeing support. These elements position the health package as a notable strength alongside cash compensation.
Oxford Nanopore Technologies Insights
What We Do
Our goal is to enable the analysis of anything, anywhere, by anyone. We have developed the world’s first and only nanopore DNA and RNA sequencing platform. It’s a new generation of sequencing technology — the only one to offer: scalability to portable or ultra-high throughput formats, real-time data delivery, and the ability to elucidate rich biological data. We are aiming to disrupt the way that biological analyses are currently performed, and open up new applications that have a profound, positive impact on society. Our devices offer real-time analysis, for rapid insights, in fully scalable formats — from pocket to population scale — and the technology is being used in more than 100 countries worldwide. Founded in 2005 as a spin-out from the University of Oxford, the company now employs more than 600 people from multiple disciplines including nanopore science, molecular biology and applications, informatics, engineering, electronics, manufacturing and commercialisation. The management team, led by CEO Dr Gordon Sanghera, has a track record of delivering disruptive technologies to the market.
