Software Engineer II, Backend (Remote)
Job Description
We are seeking a mid-level Software Engineer to help develop software to combat cancer. The ideal candidate will be excited to work as part of an interdisciplinary team of engineers and analysts building end-to-end solutions for our clinical and R&D labs. You will be responsible for getting our state-of-the-art lab processes to interface with the rest of our systems. Depending on your skills and our needs, you'll be working on projects including distributed systems, system integration, database operations, and ETL. As a member of a fast-growing team, you’ll take the lead on major projects and collaborate actively with our world-class team of engineers, scientists, designers, and product managers. You are passionate about building reliable, maintainable, scalable, and fault-tolerant backend services, and you will have a significant impact on the continued growth of a high profile technology organization that is changing the landscape on early cancer detection.
The role reports to our engineering management team
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and deploy reliable, maintainable, scalable, and fault-tolerant backend services that power both our internal and external systems
- Collaborate with team members for code and design review
- Work with scientists, designers, product managers, and other engineers to solve complex problems in the face of lots of dynamism and uncertainty
- Guide and champion engineering hygiene and culture as a core part of the engineering backbone
Job Requirements
- BS in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, or equivalent training, fellowship, and/or work experience
- 2+ years of experience as a part of a software development team successfully shipping a software product
- Expertise with Java
- Experience designing and implementing scalable backend systems
- Direct experience with web service development
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- The ability to thrive in an environment where collaboration, communication, and compromise are an expected part of your day-to-day work
- A mindful, transparent, and humane approach to your work and your interactions with others
Nice to haves:
- Experience with a scripting language: Python, Javascript, Ruby, Scala, Go, etc.
- Experience in Kubernetes, Docker, MySQL, AWS or Google Cloud Platform
- Domain-specific experience in computational biology, genomics or a related field
