Staff Full Stack Engineer

Summary 

As a public and profitable company, we have ambitious plans to scale and enhance our products and services. We’re looking for software engineers who can work holistically to design strategic solutions that go beyond just writing code. A strong track record in understanding business needs, communicating effectively, and delivering impactful results is essential, along with leadership qualities to guide and inspire colleagues.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you'll play a key role in advancing our technology platform and building software products that make a meaningful impact. You’ll have the opportunity to lead large-scale technical efforts across multiple platforms that address our long-term business strategies. You'll be expected to propose novel solutions to real-world business challenges, work cross-functionally with engineering and non-engineering peers, and drive novel solutions that enhance our user experiences and business workflows. The ideal candidate will also have a track record of being an effective thought leader, and improving engineering best-practices across the organization.

Job Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain high-quality, full-stack software solutions that are scalable, reliable, and easy to maintain.
• Lead architecture and system design efforts for complex, distributed applications, ensuring alignment with long-term business and technical goals.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners in product, design, and business teams to translate strategic initiatives into technical solutions.
• Mentor and coach engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning, and knowledge sharing.
• Champion engineering best practices and drive initiatives that improve system performance, code quality, and developer productivity across the organization.

 

Education, Experience, and Skills

• Proficiency in at least 3 software languages, with a demonstrated ability to quickly learn new ones as needed. Python is highly desired, but other languages such as C#, Java, Javascript/Typescript, or others are acceptable.
• 10+ years experience developing back-end services and APIs in a distributed, service-oriented architecture in multiple paradigms (e.g. REST, RPC, GQL).
• 10+ years experience building large-scale front-end applications using modern frameworks (React highly desired, but Vue, or Angular are acceptable).
• 10+ years experience with data modeling using multiple database and storage types.
• 7+ years experience designing and deploying resilient and scalable large scale and distributed services in the cloud using Docker and Kubernetes (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure, OCI).
• Applied knowledge of multiple architectural paradigms.
• Bonus points for:
• Prior healthcare / health tech experience, or experience in other regulated industries, particularly with data privacy and compliance requirements.

Physical Demands

• Ability to stand, walk, and sit for extended periods.

Work Environment

• Work is primarily performed in a remote office setting.

 

 

Pay Transparency, Budgeted Range$183,664—$229,580 USD

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Science - Minded, Patient - Focused. 

At GeneDx, we create, follow, and are informed by cutting-edge science. With over 20 years of expertise in diagnosing rare disorders and diseases, and pioneering work in the identification of new disease-causing genes, our commitment to genetic disease detection, discovery, and diagnosis is based on sound science and is focused on enhancing patient care.

Experts in what matters most. 

With hundreds of genetic counselors, MD/PhD scientists, and clinical and molecular genomics specialists on staff, we are the industry’s genetic testing experts and proud of it. We share the same goal as healthcare providers, patients, and families: to provide clear, accurate, and meaningful answers we all can trust.

SEQUENCING HAS THE POWER TO SOLVE DIAGNOSTIC CHALLENGES.

From sequencing to reporting and beyond, our technical and clinical experts are providing guidance every step of the way:

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

• High-quality testing: Our laboratory is CLIA certified and CAP accredited and most of our tests are also New York State approved.
• Advanced detection: By interrogating genes for complex variants, we can identify the underlying causes of conditions that may otherwise be missed.

CLINICAL EXPERTISE

• Thorough analysis: We classify variants according to our custom adaptation of the mos