RESEARCH PROGRAMMER II (SOFTWARE ENGINEER) - C. Wu Lab
About the role
The hiring laboratory is involved in numerous projects to build software infrastructure and tools for bioinformatics, genetics, and genomics research, with a particular emphasis on building large scale data integration infrastructure and community platforms that enable collaboration and crowdsourcing. Representative projects include outbreak.info, the BioThings SDK for building APIs (biothings.io), and mygene.info. The broader research team includes a mix of software engineers and scientists; graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and staff; and geographically and demographically diverse individuals. The institute actively cultivates an inclusive work environment. This position can focus on any aspect of software engineering, including developing front-end interfaces to discover and analyze data, backend systems to efficiently access biomedical data, and/or DevOps to deploy and maintain software infrastructure.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related field, or an equivalent combination of education, training and/or experience.
- A degree in a biological or chemical science may be accepted if accompanied with programming education, training, and/or experience.
- Minimum of two years experience in software application development and research programming.
- Experience with software development in Python or JavaScript.
- A demonstrated ability to apply the fundamentals of software application development.
- Experience with version control, including git and github.
- Please include code samples and/or a link to a public code repository with examples of your work.
Skills
- Familiarity with biomedical research and methodology, especially genetics and genomics.
- Experience developing scalable system architectures that adhere to good software engineering principles.
- Ability to tackle large, open-ended research questions independently and as part of a team.
- Bioinformatics or computational biology experience.
- Experience working within a diverse, interdisciplinary team.
- Experience building or consuming web service Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for data integration.
- Experience contributing to open source software projects.
- Experience in LLM-based coding agents.
- JavaScript frameworks (React, Vue.js, Angular, or similar), HTML5, CSS3, SASS/SCSS/LESS, TypeScript.
- Developing tools to share, visualize, and analyze biomedical data.
- Data visualization principles and methodology, and a portfolio of projects applying these principles to create web‑based static and interactive visualizations using libraries like D3.js or Vega.
- User interface (UI) and user experience (UX) design.
- Cloud‑based deployment.
- Elasticsearch.
- MongoDB.
- Postgres.
- Nginx.
- Linux server (Ubuntu Server) administration.
- Amazon Web Services setup and management.
- Automated deployment Docker/Docker‑compose, and automated CI/CD workflow setup.
- Ansible.
Benefits
- Employer Contributed Retirement Plan – Depending on eligibility, employees receive an employer contributed retirement plan (no employee contribution required) and the option to contribute to a 403(b) (which is similar to a 401(k) using your own pre or post‑tax dollars).
- Full Suite of Health and Welfare plans including three medical plan options (including an HSA available option), dental, vision, life insurance, disability, EAP and more.
- Access to Flexible Spending Accounts (Medical/Dependent Care).
- Competitive vacation and sick leave policies.
- Free, on‑site parking.
Pay
The expected hiring range for this position is $70,304 to $80,000 per year, commensurate with experience. Consideration will be given to experience that exceeds the listed requirements.
Schedule
This position offers the flexibility of a hybrid or fully on‑site work arrangement.