Bioinformatics Engineer 2
ambry genetics
📍 Remote🌐 Remote💰 $90,000–$140K/yr🕐 1mo ago🔗 workday
Job Description
**Compensation:**
Pay Range: $90,000 - $140,000 USD
**Essential Functions:**
* Drive technical solutions to problems, including end-to-end process flow from ideation to release, and estimating time and complexity
* Design and develop custom software according to ticket specifications
* Act as a role model for the team, settings standards for excellence and mentoring junior engineers
* Provide clear and consistent feedback on code reviews
* Meet with clients, partners, product owners, or other stakeholders to understand and clarify workflows and requirements
* Highlight blockers or issues arising during development to resolve in a timely manner
* Monitor process and log information, troubleshooting issues as needed
* Other duties as assigned.
**Qualifications:**
* Bachelor's degree (+ at least 5 years work experience), Master’s degree (+ at least 2 years work experience), or PhD degree in Bioinformatics, Computer Science, or a related field
* Proficient in Python coding
* Intermediate-to-advanced experience working in Linux environments (e.g. compiling programs from source, performing text manipulations with pipes)
* Intermediate-to-advanced experience in relational databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server)
* Proficiency with software engineering best practices, including git version control, unit testing, and documentation
* Knowledge of next-generation sequencing technologies and standard bioinformatics data formats (e.g., FASTQ, BAM, VCF, GTF)
* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
**Preferred:**
* Experience with cloud computing environment (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)
* Familiarity with Atlassian suite applications (Jira, Confluence, BitBucket)
* Knowledge of clinical genetics databases (e.g., Clinvar, HGMD) and HGVS sequence variant nomenclatures
* Prior experience in biology and/or an understanding of mutation analysis
* Creating and developing Docker containers
* Experience developing APIs
* Experience with CI/CD (e.g. Bamboo, Jenkins, AWS Code Pipeline)
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