Senior/Principal Software Engineer

Precede Biosciences - Boston, MA

- Senior

Hybrid - Boston, MA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

Precede Biosciences is seeking a Senior/Principal Software Engineer to join our growing engineering team and create the data platform and analysis pipelines upon which our research and products are based. You'll have the opportunity to work with and learn about a diverse set of cutting-edge technologies and have a huge impact on the success of the organization.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, deploy and operate data processing, management and exploration infrastructure supporting both research and production needs.
• Employ best practices and principles of modern, cloud-based software engineering to ensure quick iteration without compromising on quality, reliability or maintainability.
• Collaborate with a cross-functional team of computational biologists, assay product development teams and translational scientists to ensure clinical accuracy, operational efficiency, security and commercial scale of the data platform.
• Proactively identify and solve complex problems while effectively communicating with all involved stakeholders.

Requirements

• Minimum of 4+ years of relevant work experience in life sciences software development in the cloud.
• Deep knowledge of AWS-based infrastructure used for data processing, management and security in the life sciences, preferably with NGS-based data.
• Fluency in one or more programming languages commonly used in bioinformatics, such as Python or Java, as well as IaC tools such as CloudFormation, CDK or Terraform.
• Practical experience organizing and managing data in a dynamic, growing environment in alignment with FAIR data principles.
• Successful history of delivering production software from concept through launch and support, comfortable with modern best practices for software development and infrastructure-as-code.
• Great communication skills, both written and verbal, able to communicate effectively with a wide range of stakeholders with varying degrees of engineering knowledge.

Nice-to-haves

• Love for startups and starting up, comfortable taking on new tasks or projects with little direction and adjusting course in response to feedback and information.
• Openness to learn from diverse perspectives and collaborate on multidisciplinary teams.