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: Are you passionate about using technology to solve life-changing challenges? Help us change how the world treats cancer! We can allow you to make a difference with your career.
The Cell-Free DNA (cfDNA) Informatics Team in the MSK Center for Molecular Oncology (CMO) is searching for a talented and self-driven Software Engineer to help us continue pioneering next-generation software systems. These cutting-edge systems will help analyze, visualize, and interpret genomic results to guide treatment decisions and patient enrollment in novel targeted therapies clinical trials. We use ultra-sensitive DNA sequencing technologies to detect genetic alterations in blood and other body fluids, monitor cancer, and select the most appropriate treatments noninvasively.
Role Overview:
- Gather and evaluate user requirements, in collaboration with product managers and engineers.
- Participate in design, development, and support of cutting-edge multi-tiered full-stack software systems for research use.
- Implement and follow the best practices in software development, code versioning, software testing, and deployment.
- Take part in code reviews, build/release management, and other R&D discussions.
- Develop and maintain robust, highly available and reliable APIs.
- Help code for containers and develop effective CI/CD pipelines.
Key Qualifications:
- Experience with full stack development using some combination of these technologies: Python, Flask/Django, MySQL/MongoDB, ReactJS/Node.js
- Experience with developing an automated testing suite, and building tools such as GitLab, GitHub, Jenkins and an automated CI/CD pipeline.
- Experience with composing and shipping containers using Docker is desirable.
- Working knowledge of Apache-Kafka/RabbitMQ/ZeroMQ is desirable.
- Working knowledge of pytest, jest and react testing libraries is desirable.
- Working knowledge of kubernetes is desirable.
Core Skills:
- Experience with UI design is a big plus.
- Experience building highly available, scalable systems, either on-premises (Kubernetes, etc.) or cloud, is a big plus.
- A team player, and passionate about learning new technologies and methodologies.
- Interested in understanding the clinical domain and building customer-centric products.
- Able to work effectively in a fast-paced environment and eager to solve complex problems.
- Resilient in recovering from setbacks and skilled at finding detours around problems
Additional Information:
Schedule: Hybrid
Location: 417 E. 68th Street, NYC
Reporting to: Senior Manager, Bioinformatic/Computational Biology
Helpful Links:
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Application Process
Bioinformatics Software Engineer IV
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