Job Title: Bioinformatics Software Engineer
Location: South San Francisco, CA
Duration: 11+ Months
Position Type: Contract
Duties:
- We have a full-time temporary contractor opening (11 months) for an experienced software engineer in the Ion AmpliSeq Designer team.
- The individual will focus on developing a brand new API web-service to enable third-party integrations with the AmpliSeq Designer software.
- The individual will design and implement the core service and related authentication aspects, notifications, versioning, as well as work on deployment & scaling in a cloud-hosted environment.
- The successful candidate will be part of an innovative multi-disciplinary team developing applications for Ion Torrent DNA sequencing.
- As part of this team, they will be expected to work in a fast paced, complex setting to hard deliverables in a collaborative environment.
- Critical thinking, determination to succeed, the willingness and courage to push the boundaries on the possible and the drive to deliver are key attributes.
Primary responsibilities include:
- Design, develop, and test API web-services to enable third party integrations of AmpliSeq Designer functionality.
- Integrate such API with existing backend data analysis pipelines and databases.
- Document and maintain API specifications, coordinate with clients of the API.
- Handle authentication, status notifications, versioning and related aspects.
- Develop automation tools and scripts to aid testing of the API using real and mock data.
- Collaborate with a team of software developers and bioinformatics scientists to deliver software features in release cycles (in an agile development process).
Requirements:
- Experience with multiple complete product development life cycles from concept to development and product testing and final release.
- Excellent communication and organization skills.
- Proven expertise with Java and web-service frameworks like Play, DropWizard, etc.
- Experience with designing APIs, building REST-ful webservices, working with SQL databases.
- Proven expertise with Perl, Python, or UNIX scripting.
- Bioinformatics background knowledge (genomics, molecular biology) and skills (NGS, assay design, tools, file-formats etc.) are a strong plus.
- Prefer experience with cloud computing, AWS, docker, scaling.
Vishnu Kumar
Technical Recruiter
Artech Information Systems LLC
360 Mt. Kemble Avenue, Suite 2000 | Morristown, NJ 07960
Office: +1.973.967.3585 | Fax: 973.998.2599
