Rosalind, Inc. Bioinformatics Engineer San Diego, CA · Remote · Full time

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Job Overview

We are looking for outstanding software developers to join our Software Engineering team. As a BioInformatics Engineer, you will be responsible for developing software for analyzing, managing, and visualizing complex biological data and working closely with our Front-End and Cloud Infrastructure Engineering teams.

Responsibilities And Deliverables

• Build robust and scalable pipelines using ROSALIND workflow language
• Facilitate the development of vivid user interfaces that breakdown the typical complexity of bioinformatics analysis
• Write production-quality end-points to interface bioinformatics pipelines and machine learning algorithms for implementation within the ROSALIND multi-tenant SaaS platform
• Be flexible and passionate about bioinformatics alchemy to support greater discovery into biology’s unknowns through integrative analysis

Requirements

• 5–10 years experience of active development
• PhD (or Master’s degree with 2-5 years industry experience) in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Biostatistics, Computer Science or a related field
• Proficiency in using R with strong programming and scripting
• Proficiency with Python
• Experienced in implementing REST and REST-like APIs
• Experience with statistical and mathematical modeling with genomic data
• Experience with building / supporting / using bioinformatic pipelines
• Work collaboratively with other bioinformatics and research scientists and engineers for various projects as appropriate

Stand-out Qualities

• Machine learning experience and mathematical understanding of optimization algorithms, Bayesian statistics and multivariate analysis
• Experience with version control systems (e.g., GitHub)
• Experience building responsive web applications with Angular / JavaScript (Typescript), HTML, CSS
• Proficient in creating D3 visualizations and Canvas on complex data sets
• Worked on a team that has deployed a production web application with a user base of over 200 users