Director, Software Engineering - #1703
GRAIL is a healthcare company whose mission is to detect cancer early, when it can be cured. GRAIL is focused on alleviating the global burden of cancer by developing pioneering technology to detect and identify multiple deadly cancer types early. The company is using the power of next-generation sequencing, population-scale clinical studies, and state-of-the-art computer science and data science to enhance the scientific understanding of cancer biology, and to develop its multi-cancer early detection blood test. GRAIL is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA with locations in Washington, D.C., North Carolina, and the United Kingdom. GRAIL, LLC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN). For more information, please visit www.grail.com.
Grail is looking for a Director, Software Engineering who enjoys working on a broad array of software systems and projects. The team is responsible for customer-facing software used to capture and manage clinical data. We strive to build a robust and scalable infrastructure as well as easy-to-use UI interfaces. Our technical stack consists of Go, AWS, Kubernetes, Microservices, and React.
You Will:
- Use your experience to architect and develop front-end and back-end applications and distributed systems to build Clinical Decision Support Systems.
- Manage a team of software engineers
- Understand behaviors and dependencies among systems in order to identify an efficient breakdown into modular, reusable microservices.
- Lead, facilitate, coordinate with external (on-shore and off-shore) consulting partners to accomplish project goals.
- Participate in the development and maintenance of application architecture guiding principles, policies, best practices, and standards.
- Build and operate the infrastructure and tooling that runs the systems and powers the team.
- Drive best practices for scaling, monitoring, logging, reliability, security, code health, testing, and maintainability.
- Mentor and teach other team members to help improve their skills and elevate the software organization
Your background includes:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Bioinformatics, or similar technical field.
- 12+ years of meaningful work experience designing, developing, testing, and maintaining full-stack applications and microservice ecosystems.
- Excellent knowledge of general-purpose programming languages including C++, Java, JavaScript, Python, Go Language, React, SpringBoot, Spring, Angular, Maven, Docker, Redis, Elasticsearch, Solr, Athena, MySQL, & Postgres.
- Experience working with business teams on complex problems and translating them into efficient, scalable, and easy to maintain data engineering solutions.
- Experience architecting and developing distributed systems on one of the cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Experience with data federation and associated security principles and guidelines
- Experience with building clinical applications including in-depth understanding of quality aspects of the solution (DHF, etc.)
- Passion for designing and building practical high-quality software solutions.
- Strong professional written and verbal communication skills.
- Proven leadership and self-direction!
- Willingness to both teach others and learn new techniques!
GRAIL is an Equal Employment Office and Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. We will reasonably accommodate all individuals with disabilities so that they can participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
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