Staff Software Engineer - Order to Report

Company Description

Guardant Health is a leading precision oncology company focused on helping conquer cancer globally through use of its proprietary tests, vast data sets and advanced analytics. The Guardant Health oncology platform leverages capabilities to drive commercial adoption, improve patient clinical outcomes and lower healthcare costs across all stages of the cancer care continuum. Guardant Health has commercially launched Guardant360®, Guardant360 CDx, Guardant360 TissueNext™, Guardant360 Response™, and GuardantOMNI® tests for advanced stage cancer patients, and Guardant Reveal™ for early-stage cancer patients. The Guardant Health screening portfolio, including the Shield™ test, aims to address the needs of individuals eligible for cancer screening.

Job Description

Department Summary

At Guardant Health our mission is to conquer cancer with data, as such software sits at the core of everything we do. While we’re best known for our molecular diagnostics, which unlock the genomic signatures of cancer, these tests are just the first step in the equation. Turning this genomic data into actionable insights shared with thousands of patients, physicians, and researchers in a scalable, reliable, and secure fashion is a software product challenge.

We are building a unique software stack to manage an ecosystem of microservices, SOAP/RESTful APIs, and data integrations with internal and external systems to deliver useful and elegant user experiences in the extraordinarily complex oncology diagnostic and therapeutic landscape. We connect patients with clinical trials, help clinicians order our tests and receive our clinical reports, and deliver valuable genomic datasets to researchers to help uncover important insights into treatment paradigms and drug discovery. Our technology stack reflects our views of using the best tools for the job, employing Java, JavaScript, NodeJS along with Kubernetes, Docker, Mulesoft, MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB, high-performance computing clusters (HPC), and a variety of AWS services to analyze and disseminate vast volumes of genomic data.

About the Role:

The Software team is looking for an experienced and energetic staff software engineer to build and enhance laboratory workflows within the Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) and across other systems and services that interact with LIMS to facilitate lab operations. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Work with very interesting technologies and datasets (human genomics)
• Have a holistic view of processes and systems involved in taking patient samples from order to result in a multi-product clinical laboratory
• Specialize in configuration and customization of commercial off-the-shelf product LIMS system to support order-to-result workflows
• Understand LIMS platform/product features and propose solutions that present trade-off analysis and make best use of the platform.
• Leverage off-the-shelf or existing functionality whenever possible so development resources can be focused on unmet needs
• Build and maintain an ecosystem of services and applications that provide unique value add 
• Integrate LIMS and other enterprise systems and services to create seamless business processes
• Analyze complex requirements, create simple designs, vet with multiple stakeholders and cross-functional teams 
• Initiate and lead technical design discussions within and across technical teams. 
• Create artifacts, such as design and implementation, to guide development, implementation and support
• Code for efficiency, reusability, scalability, and all other ileitis by following existing frameworks and practices or creating new ones when needed.
• Responsible for creating and managing business rules using Drools.
• Develop and maintain automated tests for regular releases.
• Provide operational platform support such as user and license management and audit documentation 
• Provide second-tier production support

Qualifications

You enjoy an agile, fast paced and highly technical environment. You are comfortable with every aspect of the software development lifecycle, from requirements to production support. You understand the importance of software architecture; you present design choices and iterate over them using feedback as a tool.

You can collaborate within and across teams, understand the big picture, create software designs, implement and prove your code is great with automated test results. You can work both independently and collaboratively, and you have a track record of technical leadership in a small team. You are eager to learn new technologies and languages. You are dedicated to engineering excellence yet pragmatic enough to balance quality principles and business needs. You are a champion of agile/scr