We are seeking
an enthusiastic and skilled Research Software Developer to join the International Severe Acute Respiratory and emerging Infection Consortium (ISARIC) team at the Pandemic Sciences Institute (PSI) within the Nuffield Department of Medicine (NDM). This role offers the opportunity to contribute to a globally recognised platform that supports rapid, evidence-based responses to emerging infectious diseases.As a member of our team, you will work alongside clinicians, data scientists, epidemiologists, software engineers, and statisticians to support the ongoing development, maintenance, and testing of the suite of tools and platforms developed by ISARIC. Your work will play a key role in enabling better data capture, sharing, and analysis across global clinical research efforts. You will be responsible for refactoring and maintaining the codebase of existing ISARIC tools and applications, leading the development of new features and functionalities to meet the evolving needs of ISARIC members, users, and researchers, and ensuring code reliability, modularity, and scalability through automated testing and CI/CD pipelines. You will also oversee the deployment, monitoring, and optimisation of applications in AWS environments, and manage and integrate databases to support ISARIC’s software ecosystem. Beyond your core technical contributions, you will play a key part in the long-term sustainability and evolution of ISARIC’s software ecosystem—helping ensure that all tools remain robust, user-friendly, and well-documented. It is essential that you have a postgraduate or equivalent qualification in Computer Science, Engineering or Data Science with professional experience demonstrating your expertise. For this role you will be working with Python and AWS so experience in these is essential. It will also be expected of you to be able to maintain production-level codebases.