Staff Software Engineer

🕒 July 31

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $164.3k - $246.7k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Ambry Genetics

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 1999

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

🧬 Biotechnology

💰 Series unknown on 2017-11

Healthcare • Consulting • Biotechnology

Ambry Genetics is a clinical diagnostic laboratory specializing in advanced genetic testing for hereditary cancer, rare disease, and other inherited conditions. The company offers DNA and paired DNA/RNA testing (including +RNAinsight®), exome sequencing with proactive reanalysis (Patient for Life), and lab-supported digital care tools (Ambry CARE) to help identify at-risk patients, facilitate testing, and report actionable results. Ambry also conducts translational genomics research and collaborates with academic and industry partners to improve variant classification and diagnostic yield.

📋 Description

• Architect, develop, and enhance Java/Spring and React applications supporting scientific workflows for variant identification, curation, ranking, and clinical reporting. • Design and own data models, APIs, and search/query strategies that make large-scale genomic variant data fast and precise to filter, faceted, and retrieve at scale. • Partner directly with scientific and clinical subject matter experts to translate complex domain requirements into clear, well-scoped technical designs. • Lead design and development of scalable, maintainable, and secure solutions, and drive alignment on technical direction across teams through design docs and architecture reviews. • Troubleshoot complex production issues across the stack, resolve root causes, and measurably improve system reliability, observability, and performance. • Use AI-assisted development tools effectively and responsibly to accelerate delivery, and help the team establish good practices for their use. • Advocate for best practices in software engineering, code quality, automated testing, and CI/CD. • Other duties as assigned.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field or equivalent work experience • 8+ years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on full-stack application development • Proven leadership experience, with the ability to lead by example and mentor engineers. • Strong expertise in cloud-based solutions and experience integrating third-party software into existing systems. • Extensive experience in building service-oriented architectures and designing RESTful API services to support scalable and maintainable applications. • Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to troubleshoot and resolve technical challenges efficiently. • Effective communication skills, capable of articulating complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders. • Experience with search and query technologies such as OpenSearch or Elasticsearch, including index and mapping design, query performance tuning, and faceted filtering over large datasets. • Experience and familiarity working in Java / Spring, React. • Experience working with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL technologies (OpenSearch/Elasticsearch, MongoDB, DynamoDB)

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical • Dental • Vision • FSA • Paid sick leave • Generous paid time off (PTO) program