Software Engineer II, Integrated Genomics

About the role

Mission: Ending cancer for life.

Specialized care teams provide personalized, compassionate, expert care to patients of all ages. Research conducted at MSK’s Sloan Kettering Institute drives advancements in understanding and treating cancer.

Exciting Opportunity: IGO is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Data and Software Engineering Team.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain software supporting genomic workflows.
• Implement new features and fixes across key platforms, including LIMS, data-archiving pipelines, and internal delivery APIs.
• Build intuitive user interfaces using React, JavaScript, and TypeScript, and contribute to back-end services in Node.js, Python, or Java.
• Write clean, maintainable code and contribute to unit, integration, and end-to-end testing.
• Participate in design discussions, code reviews, and GitHub-based development workflows.
• Monitor and troubleshoot systems in a data-intensive environment, helping improve performance and reliability.
• Work with wet-lab scientists to translate their needs into technical solutions.
• Use AI-assisted development tools (e.g., code-completion and code-review assistants) to increase development speed, code quality, and test coverage while maintaining strong engineering standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Bioinformatics, or a related technical field; or 2–4 years of relevant experience.
• Master's Degree preferred.
• 2+ years of experience building software through professional work, internships, research, or substantial personal/open-source projects.
• Familiarity with HTML, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript; experience with React preferred.
• Exposure to back-end development using Java, Python, or Node.js.
• Basic knowledge of SQL and relational databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL).
• Comfortable working in a Linux environment and using command-line tools.
• Interest in genomics, bioinformatics, or scientific/healthcare data (preferred but not required).
• Experience with AI coding assistants—or interest in learning them effectively.

Core Skills

• Excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical partners.
• Curiosity and a growth-oriented attitude; eager to learn from mentorship.
• Collaborative approach to collaboration, including pairing and code review.
• Ability to incorporate AI-assisted tools thoughtfully while maintaining independent problem-solving skills.
• Customer-focused orientation—motivated to improve scientist and analyst workflows.
• Organized, reliable, and able to spearhead work in a fast-paced research environment.

Additional Information

• Location: 1250 1st Avenue, New York, NY (Schwartz)
• Schedule: On-site 4 days per week, 37.5 hours a week
• Reporting to: Data & Software Engineering Team Lead

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• Pay Range: $100,600.00 - $161,000.00
• FSLA Status: Exempt