Company overview
The people of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) are united by a singular mission: ending cancer for life. Our specialized care teams provide personalized, compassionate, expert care to patients of all ages. Informed by basic research done at our Sloan Kettering Institute, scientists across MSK collaborate to conduct innovative translational and clinical research that is driving a revolution in our understanding of cancer as a disease and improving the ability to prevent, diagnose, and treat it. MSK is dedicated to training the next generation of scientists and clinicians, who go on to pursue our mission at MSK and around the globe.
Job details
Exciting Opportunity at MSK: As part of the pathology software engineering group, the Bioinformatic Software Engineer will work with a passionate team using technology to solve real-world and life-impacting challenges. You will develop bioinformatics and biomedical informatics solutions that will help diagnose a tumor specimen and suggest treatment paths for cancer. As a mid/senior level bioinformatics software engineer you will work with our informatics teams to help us continue pioneering next-generation clinical software systems, spawning from leading petabyte-scale biological datasets, high-performance computing-enabled bioinformatics pipelines, and other ground breaking systems to help visualize and report genomic results that guide treatment decisions and enrollment of patients onto the clinical trials.
Role Overview:
- Work and collaborate with a top-notch team of software engineers, bioinformatics researchers, system engineers, and pathologists to support clinical-grade diagnostic analysis, results, and reporting informatics infrastructure.
- Collaborate, design, implement, test, and deploy ground breaking scalable automation pipelines and multi-tiered full-stack software systems.
- Create and maintain technical documentation including user guides, operational run books, and standard operating procedures.
- Develop DevOps framework and implement standards, processes, and controls for release and deployment activities.
- Develop API services, data dashboards, visualizations, and pioneering web portals.
Key Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in computer science, or related informatics field
- 3+ years of hands-on experience with programming languages like Python/Java, or JavaScript frameworks such as ReactJS or 5+ years of experience building high-throughput and scalable RESTful APIs using Python frameworks (such as Flask, FastAPI, etc)
- Shown ability with either SQL or NoSQL database technologies such as MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB
- Shown experience working with cloud platforms preferably AWS.
- 2+ years of experience with agile software development practices, and experience using tools such as JIRA, or Rally
- Experience with code management systems such as GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, etc.
- Experience with data pipelines
Core Skills:
- A standout colleague, and passionate about learning new technology/methodology.
- Desire to understand the clinical domain and build and deliver customer-centric products.
- Able to work effectively in a fast-paced environment and eager to solve complex problems.
- An effective communicator and possess team and customer-focused competency.
- Resilient in recovering from setbacks and skilled at finding detours around problems.
Additional Information:
- Reports to the Director, Software Engineering
- Schedule: Hybrid, 2 days onsite & 3 days remote
- Location: 321 E. 61st Street, Joy Building
Pay Range: $100,600.00-$161,000.00
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