Bioinformatics Software Engineer III - Portals Backend

Overview

• Work and collaborate with a top-notch team of software engineers, bioinformatics researchers, system engineers, and physicians to support clinical-grade omics infrastructure.
• Collaborate, design, implement, test, and deploy cutting-edge scalable bioinformatics automation pipelines to analyze genomic data, and scalable multi-tiered full-stack software systems.
• Create and maintain technical documentation including user guides, operational run books, and standard operating procedures.
• Develop DevOps framework and implement standards, processes, and controls for release and Deployment activities.
• Develop API services, data dashboards, visualizations, and cutting-edge web portals.

Key Qualifications :

• Bachelor's Degree in bioinformatics, computer science, or related discipline with 6 years of hands-on software engineering experience, preferably developing scientific software such as bioinformatics or biomedical informatics systems.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with programming languages like Python / Java, or JavaScript frameworks such as ReactJS
• 3+ years of experience with database technologies such as MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB
• 5+ years of experience building high-throughput and scalable RESTful APIs using Python frameworks (such as Flask, FastAPI, etc)
• Experience working with high-performance computing platforms either on-premises (LSF, Slurm, etc) or on the cloud (especially AWS)
• Experience with agile software development practices, and experience using tools such as JIRA, or Rally

Core Skills :

• A team player, and passionate about learning new technology / methodology.
• Desire to understand the clinical domain and build and deliver customer-centric products.
• Able to work effectively in a fast-paced environment and eager to solve complex problems.
• An effective communicator and possess team and customer-focused competency.
• Resilient in recovering from setbacks and skilled at finding detours around problems.

Additional Information :

• Location : 1275 York Avenue, NYC
• Reporting to The Director, Software Engineering
• Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
• Schedule : Hybrid, Three days onsite

Pay Range : 118,800 - $196,200

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