Senior Software Engineer

Full-time - Senior

Boston, MA

Chemical Manufacturing

About the position

As a Senior Software Engineer at Bio-Techne, you will play a pivotal role in advancing commercial software solutions within the Bioinformatics and Software Engineering group. Your expertise in regulated medical device development will be essential in designing and delivering high-quality, web-based analysis software for genetics and oncology data processing, reporting, and visualization. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop and maintain regulated software solutions that meet the needs of both internal and external customers.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development of diagnostic assay kits that advance molecular diagnostics research worldwide.
• Serve as the subject matter expert for regulated software solutions, focusing on high-quality modern software applications and robust cybersecurity.
• Proactively identify and communicate emerging project needs and deliver appropriate solutions.
• Contribute to functional software design, development, and testing of regulated commercial software applications.
• Collaborate with senior individuals across teams to deliver and support high-quality end-to-end solutions.
• Train other software developers on approaches, methods, and technology related to developing regulated medical device software applications.
• Identify, promote, defend, and implement internal process improvements and technical advancements.
• Participate in an Agile software development process and lead specific design, planning, estimation, execution, and verification testing activities.
• Effectively communicate technical topics and project outcomes both internally and externally.

Requirements

• Master's degree with 5+ years of industry experience in Computer Science, Bioinformatics, or a related field, or a Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of industry experience.
• Extensive experience developing and deploying regulated software applications.
• Experience implementing IEC 62304 and ISO 13485 preferred.
• Experience developing secure software aligned with current cybersecurity best practices.
• Expert working knowledge of C# or JavaScript; experience with Python preferred.
• Experience developing and testing software in Unix/Linux preferred.
• Experience with cloud-native software development highly desired.
• Extensive experience with commercial software development tools including professional IDEs (Visual Studio, VS Code, PyCharm), version control with Git, and either Jira or Azure DevOps.
• Extensive experience writing unit and integration tests and understanding of test-driven design.
• Experience with performance testing, profiling and optimization preferred.
• Demonstrated ability and enthusiasm for working in a multi-disciplinary team setting.
• Superb written and verbal communication skills.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with performance testing, profiling and optimization preferred.
• Experience developing secure software aligned with current cybersecurity best practices.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Medical, dental, disability and life insurance
• 401(k) plan with company matching
• Employee bonus plan
• Tuition reimbursement plan