Senior Software Engineer - Oncology Portal

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 

We are building a unique software stack to manage an ecosystem of microservices, RESTful APIs, and data integrations with internal and external systems to deliver frictionless 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, Python, Ruby, Node, and React along with Kubernetes, Docker, MuleSoft, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, 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 Senior Software Engineer to be a key contributor to our next-generation Oncology Portal that will serve physicians, care teams, patients, and researchers. Your expertise will influence the product design and architecture. You will work side-by-side with a team of world-class doctors and researchers who want to impact global healthcare delivery.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Be laser focused on customer experience - usability, user interface design, and change management for our ecosystem of users
• Design, develop, document, deploy and support the Guardant Oncology Portal software ecosystem
• Analyze complex requirements, create simple designs, and meet with multiple stakeholders and cross-functional teams 
• Build and maintain an ecosystem of services and applications that provides  unique value add 
• 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 -ilities by following existing frameworks and practices or creating new ones when needed
• Develop and maintain automated tests for regular releases
• Participate in the testing process through test review and analysis, test witnessing, and certification of software
• Provide second-tier production support

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in software engineering, CS, EE or and equivalent field of study
• 8+ years of enterprise full-stack software development in a fast-paced environment leveraging an agile development framework, test automation, and continuous integration.
• 6+ years of working with user-facing applications and championing seamless UX/UI
• 6+ years of experience developing production software in Java
• 6+ years of experience designing, developing, and consuming RESTFul APIs using RAML, Swagger / OpenAPI
• 4+ years of experience with Amazon Web Services or other cloud services
• 4+ years of hands-on experience with data modeling, developing schemas (relational and NoSQL data stores, XML/JSON), data management, ingestion and processing
• 4+ years of working with React or other front-end JavaScript frameworks
• 4+ years leading small software teams and projects idea to launch and support
• Demonstrated knowledge of distributed and scalable systems
• Deep understanding and track record of utilization of contemporary architectural patterns and methodologies such as microservices and serverless

Desired, but not required:

• Experience with integration platforms such as Mulesoft 
• Experience in the healthcare industry 
• Understanding of laboratory operations, regulations, and compliance in the healthcare industry

Additional Information

Hybrid Work Model: At Guardant Health, we have defined days for in-person/onsite collaboration and work-from-home days for individual-focused time. All U.S. employees who live