Backend Software Engineer
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Backend Software Engineer
Location: Onsite 3x/week in South San Francisco CA
Duration: 12month contract to start
IV Process: 1 LPS screening and then 2 more rounds with at least one coding round 2nd interview round will be onsite in South SF (Hence why we cant relocate)
Description: Software Engineer (Consultant) gCS Catalysts
The Position:
The Computational Catalyst in the Genentech Research & Early Development (gRED)
Computational Sciences (gCS) organization is seeking a talented and passionate Software
Engineer who loves tackling challenging technology problems and creating architecturally
sound highquality software that empower scientists and transform critical business
strategies.
gCS is on a mission to partner across the organization to realize the potential of data AI and
computational approaches that will revolutionize how targets and therapeutics are discovered
and developed ultimately enabling novel treatments for patients across the world.
Duties Include:
Design develop and maintain userfriendly and responsive web UI based software
applications on AWS cloud
Develop and maintain backend systems
Develop and maintain asynchronous and/or synchronous integrations between systems
Design and optimize SQLand NoSQL database schemas and queries for efficient data
storage and retrieval
Contribute code to other cloud based services written in languages like Java Python
etc.
Write and maintain robust suite of tests to ensure the functionality and integrity of the
developed applications
Collaborate crossfunctionally with the team to understand user needs and translate
them into userfriendly and aesthetic user interfaces
Collaborate closely with a team of scientists to build tools that assist in groundbreaking
biology research
Minimum Qualifications:
5 years of software development experience
Proven track record of constructing quality userfriendly tools in a fastpaced
environment
Product Expertise: With 3 years of experience in testing maintaining or launching
software products and 1 year in software design and architecture youll be a key player
in our success
Understanding of data structures algorithms(DSA) and programming languages like
Python Java and Groovy
Ability to identify patterns develop generalpurpose frameworks and address scalability
requirements for data pipelines and database/data warehouse solutions
Ability to quickly acquire new technologies and programming languages
Follow test driven development and clean code patterns.
Use Continuous integration and delivery approach
Experience with cloud computing platforms especially AWS AWS services and data
warehouse solutions like Snowflake or Redshift
Demonstrated technical expertise in solving challenging programming and design
problems
Proficiency in developing and optimizing both batch and realtime data pipelines
encompassing tasks such as data collection consolidation normalization and
scheduling
Teamoriented individuals with strong collaboration prioritization and adaptability skills
Effective collaboration with data scientists to refine data models design improvements
conduct experiments and iteratively improve results
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience with biological data and processes is a strong plus
Experience working with scientists or in a research environment is advantageous
ML and Software Expertise: Utilize your deep knowledge of ML and Software Engineering
Machine Learning skills to unlock the potential of data technology and computational
approaches.
SQL and noSQL proficiency
Education
Bachelors Degree or higher in Computer Sciences Data Science or related fields.
Employment Type
Full Time
