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Staff Software Engineer, Bioinformatics

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💎 Seniority level: Senior, 8+ years

💸 Salary: 183664.0 - 229580.0 USD per year

🔍 Industry: Software Development

🏢 Company: GeneDx👥 201-500💰 $150,000,000 Post-IPO Equity about 2 years ago🫂 Last layoff over 2 years agoArtificial Intelligence (AI)MedicalPredictive AnalyticsMachine LearningAnalyticsHealth CareHealth Diagnostics

🗣️ Languages: English

⏳ Experience: 8+ years

Requirements:
  • Proficiency in Python; comfortable with working in other similar languages .
  • Experience building/consuming API calls/responses and ETL functions.
  • Experience with AWS services, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, CI/CD, automated testing, and data logging suites/toolsets.
  • Good understanding of general software engineering patterns, best practices, and methods.
  • 8+ years professional experience (industry setting) designing and supporting robust applications using modern object-oriented frameworks.
  • Able to define and execute work across platforms over multiple quarters, as a technical project lead and contributor.
  • Have developed novel bioinformatics algorithms and products.
  • Track record of influential publications or leadership of scientific collaborations.
  • Successful history of delivering scalable production software.
  • Excellent communication skills; ability to work collaboratively with other development teams.
  • Knowledge of bioinformatics pipeline scalability, observability, and cost efficiency.
  • Be able to lead, coordinate, and execute validation efforts for new products.
  • Deep understanding of technical implementation of complex variant calling - structural variants beyond copy number.
  • Ability to improve existing variant calling algorithms.
  • Technical knowledge of NGS and non-NGS laboratory assays.
  • Prior experience working in a CAP/CLIA regulated setting.
  • Prior experience preparing for a CAP/CLIA inspection.
  • Understanding of assay panel design considerations.
  • Able to coordinate and execute efforts for modifications to existing bioinformatics products.
  • Experience troubleshooting wet-lab and dry-lab issues.
  • Strong understanding of bayesian statistics and ML in relation to common bioinformatics applications.
  • Familiarity with samtools, gatk, picard, vcftools, bedtools.
  • Familiarity with bioinformatics workflow management tools and concepts.
  • PhD strongly preferred.
Responsibilities:
  • Design, write, and maintain high quality and robust software applications and services to meet team goals.
  • Design novel algorithms in support of new product offerings, lead analytical validation efforts in support of existing pipeline improvements.
  • Collaborate with teammates and product managers in developing development roadmaps and sprint planning.
  • Lead establishment and adherence to robust and compliant software development best practices.
  • Participate in software quality testing and validation.
  • Participate in cross-functional development with other teams.
  • Contribute to continuous improvement in the operating model of the team.
  • Level up your teammates to bring deeper understanding of technical know-how across teams.
  • Ensure quality technical implementation within our platform.
  • Your code is peer-reviewed through the pull request process. You lead reviews of others’ work.
  • Produce high quality code that meets company coding standards and is clearly written and documented so that other software developers can work with it.
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