Bioinformatics Software Engineer III

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Bioinformatics Software Engineer III

Exciting Opportunity at MSK

As part of the pathology software engineering group, you will work with a passionate team using technology to solve real-world and life-impacting challenges. You will develop bioinformatics and biomedical informatics solutions that will help diagnose a tumor specimen and suggest treatment paths for cancer. As a mid/senior level bioinformatics software engineer you will work with our informatics teams to help us continue pioneering next-generation clinical software systems, spawning from managing petabyte-scale biological datasets, high-performance computing-enabled bioinformatics pipelines, and other cutting-edge systems to help visualize and report genomic results that guide treatment decisions and enrollment of patients onto the clinical trials.

Role Overview:

• Work and collaborate with a top-notch team of software engineers, bioinformatics researchers, system engineers, and pathologists to support clinical-grade diagnostic analysis, results, and reporting informatics infrastructure.
• Collaborate, design, implement, test, and deploy cutting-edge scalable automation pipelines and 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 computer science, or related informatics field with 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with programming languages like Python/Java, or JavaScript frameworks such as ReactJS or 5+ years of experience building high-throughput and scalable RESTful APIs using Python frameworks (such as Flask, FastAPI, etc)
• Demonstrated ability with either SQL or NoSQL database technologies such as MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB
• Proven experience working with cloud platforms preferably AWS.
• 2+ years of experience with agile software development practices, and experience using tools such as JIRA, or Rally
• Experience with code management systems such as GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, etc.
• Experience with data pipelines

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:

• Reports to the Director, Software Engineering
• Schedule: Hybrid, 2 days onsite & 3 days remote
• Location: 1275 York Avenue, NYC

Pay Range: $118,800 - $196,200

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