Python Engineer- Drug Target Discovery BioTech

Our client is a seed stage TechBio company building a platform solution for identifying drug targets for neurological diseases with in-vitro validation. The founders have track records building successful series C HealthTech, and have just raised £2m pre-seed stage funding last week.

Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain pipeline orchestration and data infrastructure
• Develop internal APIs and tooling to support scientific workflows
• Implement data validation, lineage tracking, and audit logging
• Build knowledge graph infrastructure integrating public biological databases
• Own deployment: containerisation, CI/CD, and cloud environment

Requirements:

• Strong Python backend engineering, particularly for data-intensive applications
• Experience with workflow orchestration
• Cloud infrastructure, Docker, and CI/CD pipelines
• Experience building and maintaining REST or GraphQL APIs
• Strong software engineering fundamentals: testing, documentation, version control

Nice to Have

• Graph database experience (Neo4j, Amazon Neptune)
• Familiarity with public biological databases (Ensembl, OpenTargets, ChEMBL, UniProt)
• Interest in or exposure to drug discovery or computational biology

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