Role : Python Backend Software Engineer
Location: Remote (Canada )
Job Type Contract
Project Duration: 1 year with possible extension based on performance.
Must have Biotechnology Pharmaceutical LifeScience
Note: As the team is distributed between US (San Francisco) and Canada (Vancouver) the successful candidate should work in the Eastern or Pacific Time Zone.
Required Qualifications
- BS or higher in Bioinformatics Computer Science or related fields
- Expertise (5 years of experience) in Python designing and developing highperformance systems & package development
- Expertise in building deploying maintaining and monitoring APIs
- Expertise in designing running and maintaining workflow processes containers schedulers and systems in an onpremise server and in the cloud
- Experience with new and efficient file formats for large data
- Experience with scientific computing packages (SciPy NumPy pandas etc.)
- Proficiency with cloud infrastructure particularly AWS to establish APIs and data services or databases
- Expertise in storing and extracting large amounts of data via cloudbased systems including S3 buckets
- Demonstrated adherence to best practices in software engineering particularly usability version control testing and appropriate use of abstraction
- Passion for continuous learning and teaching others
- As the team is distributed between the US and Canada the successful candidate should work in the Eastern or Pacific Time Zone.
Nicetohaves
- Familiarity with formal build/release/deploy and continuous integration frameworks
- Kubernetes AWS Lambda and any other FaaS or containerized workloads experience
- Maintaining deployment infrastructure (reproducible and IaaS) monitoring of events and system maintenance
- Data wrangling processing and analysis in Python and/or R
- Biological domain knowledge specifically in single cell genomics
- Familiarity with Multi Assay Experiment and other representations of biological information
- Experience building interactive visualization applications using modern frameworks and technologies (e.g. React Vue Svelte; D3.js WebGL)
- Building interactive data apps in R and Python (Shiny Streamlit etc.)