Bioinformatics Software Engineer III

Details

Posted: 12-May-24

Location: New York, New York

Type: Full-time

Salary: Open

Categories:

Academic/Faculty

Internal Number: 77882

Pay Range
$118,800.00-$196,200.00
Company Overview

The people of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) are united by a singular mission: ending cancer for life. Our specialized care teams provide personalized, compassionate, expert care to patients of all ages. Informed by basic research done at our Sloan Kettering Institute, scientists across MSK collaborate to conduct innovative translational and clinical research that is driving a revolution in our understanding of cancer as a disease and improving the ability to prevent, diagnose, and treat it. MSK is dedicated to training the next generation of scientists and clinicians, who go on to pursue our mission at MSK and around the globe.

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Job Description

Are you passionate about using technology to solve life impacting challenges? Help us change how the world treats cancer! We can provide you with the opportunity to make a difference with your career.

We are searching for a hard-working and dedicated Software Engineer to help us continue pioneering next generation software systems. You will be working closely with other software and data engineers, data scientists, clinicians, and molecular biologists. These ground breaking systems will help analyze, visualize, and interpret genomic results that will guide treatment decisions and the enrollment of patients onto clinical trials of novel targeted therapies. We use ultra-sensitive DNA sequencing technologies to detect genetic alterations in blood and other body fluids to noninvasively monitor cancer and select the most appropriate treatments. As a Bioinformatics Software Engineer, you will employ software development standard processes in a small team-based setting, contributing to software design, implementation, testing, and documentation.

You Are:

• A great teammate, and passionate about learning new technologies and methodologies
• Interested in understanding the clinical domain and building customer-centric products
• Able to work effectively in a fast-paced environment and eager to solve complex problems
• Experienced in developing software and data infrastructure.
• An effective communicator
• Resilient in recovering from setbacks and skilled at finding detours around problems

You Will:

• Implement and follow the standard methodologies in software development, code versioning, software testing and deployment and assists in unit/functional regression, and system testing
• Take part in technical discussion including but not limited to code reviews, and build/release management
• Work with data architect to develop software and data architecture
• Gather and evaluate user requirements, in collaboration with product managers and engineers
• Participate in design, development, and support of ground breaking multi-tiered full-stack software systems for research use
• Develop and maintain robust, highly available and reliable APIs
• Help code for containers and develop effective CI/CD pipelines

You Have:

• Experience with full stack development using some combination of these technologies: Python/Java, Flask/Spring/Django, MySQL/MongoDB, ReactJS/AngularJS/Node.js
• Experience with composing and shipping containers using Docker is desirable
• Experience with developing automated testing suite, and build tools such as GitLab, Jenkins and automated CI/CD pipeline
• Solid understanding of Apache-Kafka/RabbitMQ/ZeroMQ is desirable
• Experience with UI design
• Experience using of CWL (Common Workflow Language)
• Experience building highly available, scalable systems either on-premises (kubernetes, etc) or cloud

Pay Range $118,800.00-$196,200.00

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