Senior Bioinformatics Engineer

October 17

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GeneDx

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At GeneDx, we believe that everyone deserves personalized, targeted medical care—and that it all begins with a genetic diagnosis. Fueled by one of the world’s largest rare disease data sets, our industry-leading exome and genome tests translate complex genomic data into clinical answers that unlock personalized health plans, accelerate drug discovery, and improve health system efficiencies. It all starts with a single test.

1001 - 5000 employees

📋 Description

• Design, write, and maintain high quality and robust software applications and services to meet team goals. • Lead analytical validation efforts in support of new pipeline development and existing pipeline improvements. • Collaborate with teammates and product managers in developing development roadmaps and sprint planning. • Assist in establishment and adherence to robust and compliant software development best practices. • Participate in software quality testing and validation. • Play a role in cross-functional development with other teams as required. • Contribute to continuous improvement in the operating model of the team. • Level up your teammates to bring deeper understanding of technical know-how across teams. • Ensure quality technical implementation within our platform. • Your code is peer-reviewed through the pull request process. You lead reviews of others’ work. • Produce high quality code that meets company coding standards and is clearly written and documented so that other software developers can work with it.

🎯 Requirements

• Proficiency in Python; comfortable with working in other similar languages • Experience building/consuming API calls/responses and ETL functions. • Experience with AWS services, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, CI/CD, automated testing, and data logging suites/toolsets. • Good understanding of general software engineering patterns, best practices, and methods. • 5+ years professional experience (industry setting) designing and supporting robust applications using modern object-oriented frameworks. • Successful history of delivering scalable production software. • Able to drive design and execution of technical proposals as an individual contributor or technical project lead. • Excellent communication skills; ability to work collaboratively with other development teams. • Knowledge of bioinformatics pipeline scalability, observability, and cost efficiency. • Be able to lead, coordinate, and execute validation efforts for new products. • Deep understanding of technical implementation of complex variant calling - structural variants beyond copy number. • Ability to improve existing variant calling algorithms. • Technical knowledge of NGS and non-NGS laboratory assays. • Prior experience working in a CAP/CLIA regulated setting. • Prior experience preparing for a CAP/CLIA inspection. • Understanding of assay panel design considerations. • Able to coordinate and execute efforts for modifications to existing bioinformatics products. • Experience troubleshooting wet-lab and dry-lab issues. • Strong understanding of bayesian statistics and ML in relation to common bioinformatics applications. • Familiarity with samtools, gatk, picard, vcftools, bedtools. • Familiarity with bioinformatics workflow management tools and concepts. • PhD strongly preferred.

🏖️ Benefits

• Paid Time Off (PTO) • Health, Dental, Vision and Life insurance • 401k Retirement Savings Plan • Employee Discounts • Voluntary benefits