Frontend & App Developer

Engineering    ·    Cambridge, England    ·     Full time

Description

About the role:

We are looking for a web frontend & wearables app developer with professional development experience to work on the BIOS’s Remote Health Platform.

The BIOS Remote Health Platform consists of three interconnected products: a smartwatch app for collecting health data, a smartphone app for collecting patient survey data, and a web-based reporting portal for clinicians and researchers. For researchers, this platform can lower the cost of clinical trials and accelerate the pace of discovery by providing an alternative to in-clinic assessments; for clinicians, it can provide a valuable window into a patient’s condition between office visits. The BIOS Remote Health Platform is a certified medical device.

In future versions of the BIOS Remote Health Platform we will further enhance the data collected from wearables with the company’s own unique neural technology, which can understand and sequence neural code, in order to give a deeper picture of how patients’ nervous systems are responding to treatment.

Main duties and responsibilities:

• Work within our multidisciplinary team, developing, implementing, testing and maintaining a certified medical device system.
• Implement production level frontend code for company’s various web portals.
• Implement production level code for smartphone & smartwatch apps as part of complex medical systems.
• Collaborate with the engineering team to design & implement web & app UI.
• Collaborate with the cloud team to design & implement patient wearable device onboarding, user interface, data collection & upload to the cloud.
• Test, debug, optimise and maintain web portals & apps.
• Support app deployments within production medical device systems.

Requirements

Essential skills and qualifications:

• Frontend development experience with React framework.
• Programming experience with at least two out of the following: JavaScript, Swift & Java.
• Working knowledge of Apple’s platform development tools & frameworks.
• Working knowledge of Android platform development tools & frameworks.
• Desire to learn new programming languages & frameworks.
• Demonstrable ability to design and implement intuitive user interface.
• Demonstrable ability in researching, designing and writing new software programs.
• Ability to test, debug and maintain web portals & apps.
• Have a logical, analytical and creative approach to problems and determining their solution.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical subject, or equivalent qualification or technical experience.

Desired skills and qualifications:

• Professional experience with Apple’s platform development tools & frameworks.
• Professional experience with Android platform development tools & frameworks.
• Experience with software development in a regulated industry (such as medical, automotive, nuclear or defense).
• Experience with software development for embedded devices.
• Working knowledge of source control management such as Git.
• Experience with issue management systems such as GitLab or JIRA.
• Experience of working with Agile software development methodologies.
• Familiarity with Linux & AWS.

Benefits

Key details:

BIOS is an exciting and progressive business which values its people at the heart of everything we do. We understand that people who are happy and healthy at work and at home produce better results. Therefore we have a compensation and benefits package that promotes health, finance, life:work balance and professional development.

Competitive Salary, dependent on experience, and company share options.

Other benefits include:

• Hybrid working (office and remote) and flexible hours (outside of core hours)
• Healthcare and Dental insurance
• Enhanced Pension scheme
• A variety of well-being initiatives (incl. gym membership contribution, cycle maintenance scheme)
• Financial support for commuters through our season ticket loan scheme
• Great central Cambridge location with excellent transport links (incl. rail, bus, bike, scooters) and local amenities

Equal Opportunities:

BIOS is committed to equal employment opportunities. We welcome applications from all qualified applicants who will receive equal treatment regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, gender or sexual orientation.