Title: Software Developer/Batch
Location: New England States
Full time
The project: You'll be working on a full stack team building Terra (), a flexible open-source platform that allows researchers to perform data analysis in the cloud at previously unattainable scales. Scientists around the world use this platform every day to power world-renowned genomic and medical research, including ground breaking research on COVID-19. Terra is a collaboration between the Broad Institute, Verily Life Sciences, and Microsoft.
The environment: A lively, team-based setting where collaboration is key. An organization that values transparency, empathy, diversity, and growth. Teammates who are passionate about finding high-quality solutions to difficult problems and supporting each other. Partners who are committed to one mission of advancing science, done best when many hands come together.
The team: We are seeking a skilled engineer to be a technical leader on a team developing Terra's Batch Analysis tools. This includes Cromwell a scalable workflow management system geared towards bioinformatics and scientific workflows. Your role will include:
- Applying your existing engineering expertise to build Terra's batch analysis capabilities.
- Integrating with multiple cloud providers (GCP & Azure)
- Improving tooling, code, testing, CI/CD, and development processes to increase engineering productivity and satisfaction
- Working with our UX team to build corresponding UI features
- Mentoring engineers
Our ideal candidate will:
- Enjoy working in a team-based setting and interacting with stakeholders at the Broad and at other institutions around the world.
- Foster group decision-making, team ownership, and collaboration.
- Thrive when empowering others.
- Work with Product Management to scope, refine, and plan new features and projects.
- Enjoy solving complicated problems and understand good software development practices.
Sound like you? If so, we'd like to talk to you to tell you more about the position and the scientific work being done at the Broad Institute.
Requirements:
- 7+ years of Software Development experience is preferred, though exceptional candidates with less will be considered.
- Experience as a technical leader on a collaborative team.
- Experience delivering clear, maintainable, and well-tested software in a timely manner.
- Experience with or interest in working with a wide variety of technologies and on diverse problems.
- Experience working with users to develop and document requirements.
- Excellent organizational, communications, and leadership skills.
- Strong communicator, capable of leading progress on a team through collaboration and influence.
- Committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive team.
Any of the following is a plus:
- Familiarity with cloud environments (e.g., GCP, Azure, AWS, etc.).
- Familiarity with Scala, Akka, and Java.
- Familiarity with databases and SQL programming
- Familiarity with big data processing pipelines (e.g., WDL, CWL, Google Cloud Life Sciences API).
- Familiarity with containers and Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, Helm).
- Experience troubleshooting complex distributed systems.
What we offer:
- A fun, collaborative, and mission-driven environment
- A welcoming and inclusive work culture
- Comprehensive benefits package: Vacation (including sick time), health/dental care, matching 401K, commuter benefits, child care, etc.
- The chance to have a real impact on the advancement of science and medicine