Senior Software Engineer, Full-Stack

GeneDx (Nasdaq: WGS) delivers personalized and actionable health insights to inform diagnosis, direct treatment, and improve drug discovery. The company is uniquely positioned to accelerate the use of genomic and large-scale clinical information to enable precision medicine as the standard of care. GeneDx is at the forefront of transforming healthcare through its industry-leading exome and genome testing and interpretation services, fueled by the world’s largest, rare disease data sets. For more information, please visit www.genedx.com.

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. 

Job Responsibilities

As a Senior 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 technical efforts spanning multiple months across a large-scale system. You'll be expected to propose novel solutions to real-world business challenges, work cross-functionally with engineering and non-engineering peers, and drive results that enhance our user experiences and business workflows.   

Day to day tasks may include:

• Dive into unfamiliar code to troubleshoot or add a new feature
• Participate in feature development of larger projects
• Technically lead smaller projects
• Participate in Support tasks, including off-hours and weekend on-call rotations.
• Propose technical designs, considering standard patterns, tradeoffs, and maintainability
• Provide thorough and meaningful code reviews
• Work with legacy as well as novel code bases
• Prototype, develop, and debug new features
• Implement and maintain DevOps cloud patterns

 People Manager

• No

 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.
• 5+ years of experience developing back-end services and APIs in a distributed, service-oriented architecture.
• 5+ years of experience building large-scale front-end applications using modern frameworks (React highly desired, but Vue, or Angular are acceptable).
• 5+ years of experience with data modeling using multiple databases and storage types
• 3+ years of experience designing and deploying services in the cloud (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure, OCI).

Bonus points for: 

• Prior healthcare/health tech experience, or experience in other regulated industries, particularly with data privacy and compliance requirements 
• Kubernetes 

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

• None

Physical Demands

 The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand; sit and use hands to finger, handle, or feel.
• Ability to stand, walk, and sit for extended periods.

Work Environment 

• Work is primarily performed in a remote office setting.
• Extended periods of stationary computer work.

Acknowledgements

The above job description is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position.  Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties, as assigned by their supervisor.   

 

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Pay Transparency, Budgeted Range$170,000—$180,000 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.

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