Company Overview: Airfinity is a leading provider of data and analytics solutions in the pharmaceutical industry, helping clients understand disease landscapes, predict demand, and improve outcomes in different infectious diseases. Airfinity is headquartered in London, UK (though many of our staff and all of our dev team work remotely), and is trusted by clients throughout the world. At Airfinity you will get a chance to work on some of the most important scientific challenges of our time.

Objective of the Role: We are seeking a junior developer with a desire to do data engineering in the backend to join our Engineering team as a full-time permanent employee.

Key Responsibilities:

• Write Python scripts which fetch data from upstream sources, including from APIs, CSV and JSON file downloads, and HTML and Javascript scrapes.

• Maintain existing Python scripts, which sometimes break due to changes at the source.

• In due course, develop our data pipeline and other back-end systems and processes.

• Ensure your code is nicely structured and well-commented, and therefore more easily maintainable.

• Collaborate every day as part of a supportive development team e.g. pro-actively review your colleagues' pull requests.

Skills, Qualifications and Profile:

• Demonstrable competency in Python.

• Demonstrable competency in coding within a version control system. We use git and GitHub.

• A fair relational database understanding. We use PostgreSQL.

• Enough SQL knowledge to know how to write a filter query and an aggregation query without reference.

• Able to confidently programmatically obtain structured data from a REST API.

• Able to confidently programmatically obtain less-structured data from a web page.

• Clear and logical written communications (just like code but with people, which is crucial for a remote role).

• You should be self-motivated and keen to learn.

• Tertiary education or apprenticeship in a STEM-related field.

Bonus Skills:

• Can already use Selenium.

• Can already use Pandas.

• Experience of writing unit tests.

• Experience working within an agile team, including pull requests and code reviews.

• Computer-science or engineering degree/diploma.

Benefits

• Competitive package

• Flexible work environment

• A stimulating job in a collegiate culture

• Working with an international and highly motivated team in a world-leading small company