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Staff Software Engineer

🕒 September 15

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $155.6k - $233.4k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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First seen by Remote Rocketship September 15

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Illumina

5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 1998

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

🏭 Manufacturing

💰 $750M Post-IPO Debt on 2023-01

Healthcare • Consulting • Manufacturing

Illumina is a leading company in the genomics field, providing innovative technologies for the analysis of genetic variation and function. They offer a wide range of products and services, including sequencing platforms, microarray technology, library preparation kits, bioinformatics software, and comprehensive genomic solutions. Illumina's next-generation sequencing platforms are used for various research and clinical applications, such as cancer research, reproductive health, and genetic disease detection. The company is dedicated to improving human health by enabling researchers and clinicians to accelerate their genomic discoveries and applications, ultimately impacting precision medicine and life sciences globally.

📋 Description

• Collaborate with product owners and application developers to design, code, and maintain high-quality cloud-based applications in a Scrum team setting • Work with software teams to align architecture with user requirements • Occasionally provide technical assistance for escalated production issues • Monitor industry trends and evaluate new software technologies for platform development • Provide technical leadership to an Agile team when required • Lead performance optimization efforts, including memory management, parallelization, and algorithm efficiency

🎯 Requirements

• Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 6 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 3 years of experience; or equivalent experience • Strong proficiency in one or more low-level programming languages, such as C++ or Rust • Deep understanding of language internals, performance optimization, and memory management • Experience with SaaS multitenant database architectures using RDBMS and NoSQL stores such as Elasticsearch, Cassandra, and MongoDB • Deep understanding of SOA, web security architecture, REST APIs, event-driven architecture, and other architectural patterns • Experience with client-side MVC frameworks such as AngularJS and KnockoutJS is a plus • Proficient with source control management repositories such as Git and SVN, and CM practices • Extensive experience writing high-quality unit tests against mock objects • Good understanding of object-oriented analysis and design • Demonstrated success collaborating in a fast-paced team environment and delivering high-quality software products using established Agile development methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban against formal schedules • Proven troubleshooting skills • Experience debugging complex issues using low-level debugging and profiling tools such as GDB, LLDB, perf, Valgrind, or equivalent • Ability to learn quickly • Customer-focused, team-oriented, and motivated, taking ownership of assigned tasks • Ability to self-manage and manage interdisciplinary relationships • Proven verbal and written communication skills • Must not require visa sponsorship

🏖️ Benefits

• Variable cash program (bonus or commission) • Equity for eligible roles • Access to genomics sequencing • Family planning benefits • Health, dental, and vision benefits • Retirement benefits • Paid time off • Employee Resource Groups offering career development experiences, cultural awareness, and social responsibility opportunities

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