Research Software Engineer

Salary: £47,000 - 87,000 per year

Requirements:

• Applicants must be redeployee applicants at City St Georges; applications from others will not be considered at this time.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop and document a web-based Data Repository, including back-end services, APIs and front-end applications for uploading and downloading monitoring data.
• Work with technologies including Python and/or JavaScript, FastAPI, SQL and time-series databases, Docker and GitHub.
• Work with our research team and HS2 stakeholders to translate data requirements into technical solutions and define common data structures.
• Ensure the system is reliable, secure and well documented, and deliver agreed project milestones.

Technologies:

• Docker
• FastAPI
• GitHub
• JavaScript
• Python
• SQL
• Web

More:

We are City St Georges, University of London, a university bringing together expertise across health, business, policy, law, creativity, communications, science and technology. Our research is engaged and aims to make a positive impact. This Research Software Engineer role is based in our Engineering Department and supports the National Tunnelling Data Hub in collaboration with HS2, contributing to a modern web-based repository for sensor and monitoring data across the HS2 programme. The position is full time, permanent subject to fixed-term funding, hybrid, and based at Northampton Square, London. The listed salary is 39,906, and the role is not eligible for sponsorship. We offer a sector-leading salary, pension scheme, and staff training and development benefits. The selection process includes an interview and presentation. Applications close on 4 October 2026 at 11:59 p.m. We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and operate a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants.

last updated 40 week of 2026