Principal Engineer, Software

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Position Overview

At Exact Sciences, we are cancer fighters. We are united by our mission to change lives by providing earlier, smarter answers. Through advances in cancer detection and treatment guidance, we will help eradicate the disease and the suffering it causes.

The Principal Engineer will serve as a subject matter expert and advisor for the team. This role will have expert knowledge of our systems and codebase and hold a leadership role in the design, development, and testing of the most advanced platforms. The Principal Engineer is responsible for proactively guiding and mentoring other staff members and regularly leading teams through challenging technical projects to successful outcomes. The Principal Engineer will conduct extensive research to evaluate options and understand implications and trade-offs of reliability, scalability, operational costs, ease of adoption by organization, etc. This role will routinely advise and make key decisions that impact the long-term success of Exact Sciences, be accountable for platform quality, and set the highest standards for personal productivity. The Principal Engineer plays a critical part in driving company objectives and achieving goals for the organization while acting as a key role in developing talent and setting standards for high performance.

Working in our Software Engineering teams, you will be responsible for developing, enhancing, and sustaining software systems in a cross-functional team environment through adherence to established design control processes and good engineering practices. You will design and create engineering specifications for building software programs based on a broad knowledge of information systems and determine what development methodology to use after documenting software requirements.

Essential Duties

Include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Apply expert knowledge, skills, and practices to diverse programs and complex initiatives demonstrating creativity and mastery of specialized techniques, processes, procedures. Exercise independent judgment in methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and diagnose issues of high complexity for major software platforms.
• Provide guidance to engineers and technical expertise and coaching to product team.
• Design lasting platforms in collaboration with product teams on large scale business or technology project(s).
• Drive the quality of platforms and organizational practices that impact and influence the department’s delivery and approach.
• Contribute, interpret, and communicate enterprise, technical, project, and operational strategies, taking into account company dynamics.
• Build successful internal partnerships with IT leadership, peers, SMEs, stakeholders, and decision-makers. Manage vendor and external partnerships.
• Work on projects of high complexity with multiple business units, ongoing acquisition integration activity, or large cross-functional program implementations.
• Exercise independent judgment in methods, techniques and evaluation criteria that affect schedules, operations, and functional activities.
• Ability to work nights and/or weekends, as needed.
• Uphold company mission and values through accountability, innovation, integrity, quality, and teamwork.
• Support and comply with the company’s Quality Management System policies and procedures.
• Maintain regular and reliable attendance.
• Ability to act with an inclusion mindset and model these behaviors for the organization.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, or Engineering; or High School Diploma/General Education Degree and 12 years of relevant experience as outlined in the essential duties in lieu of Bachelor’s Degree.
• Expert in 1 or more object-oriented programming languages.
• RESTful web services, Relational Databases (Postgres, SQL Server), and ORM technologies (JPA2, Hibernate, Entities Framework). 
• Designing and developing apps that access and or utilize cloud-based frameworks (e.g., Azure, Amazon AWS Services/SDKs, etc.).
• Agile development tools; including, but not limited to, JIRA, Confluence repository.
•  Programming languages such as C, C++, Java, JavaScript, Python, SQL, PL/SQL, .NET, Google Web Toolkit.
• Demonstrated ability to perform the essential duties of the position with or without accommodation.

Preferred Qualifications

• Next Generation Sequencing data analysis tools and workflows.
• Ability to code in Python at an expert level.

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Salary Range:

$167,000.00 - $267,000.00

The annual base salary shown is a national range for this position on a full-time basis and may differ by hiring location. In addition, this position is bonus eligible, and is eligible to receive company stock upon hire as well as annually.

Exact Sciences is proud to offer an employee experience that includes paid time off (including days for vacation, holidays, volunteering, and personal time), paid leave for parents and caregivers, a retirement savings plan, wellness support, and health benefits including medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage. Learn more about our benefits.

Our success relies on the experiences and perspectives of a diverse team, and Exact Sciences fosters a culture where all employees can develop personally and professionally with a sense of respect and belonging. If you require an accommodation, please contact us here.

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