About this opportunity
Foundation Medicine lists this Sr Software Engineer (Data Engineering Team) opportunity in boston, Massachusetts. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
About the Job
The Senior Software Engineer on the Data Engineering Team is broadly responsible for building and supporting software applications in use by the business; in particular, FoundationCORE and its components. The technical products developed by the incumbent help doctors match patients to more advanced treatment options. This role completes design, development, unit testing, code reviews, and generates technical documentation. The Senior Software Engineer has a high‑level understanding of the codebase and is self‑sufficient in at least one domain of FMI architecture. The incumbent makes well‑reasoned decisions and trade‑offs, is able to work in other parts of the codebase with guidance and, as an experienced practitioner, provides guidance to lower level Software Engineers.
Key Responsibilities
Help to design, develop, and maintain a robust and scalable data platform.
Mentor and coach team members with less experience.
Write high quality distributed system software.
Build batch and streaming pipelines for the analysis of FMI’s data assets.
Lead other team members in: Investigating design approaches;
Prototyping new technologies; and,
Evaluating technical feasibility.
Implement algorithms developed by FMI data scientists.
Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements including, but not limited to, automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery and redesigning infrastructure for greater scalability.
Drive engineering best practices in the team.
Deliver contributions in an Agile approach and leveraging Agile methodology.
Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
Bachelor’s Degree
5+ year(s) of software engineering experience
Preferred Qualifications:
Advanced degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related concentration
Proficiency in two or more of the following software languages: Java, Scala, Python, or Go
7+ years of prior software engineering experience
Deep professional experience with: Data pipeline and workflow management tools: Airflow, Glue, Azkaban, and others
Relational databases, including: SQL
Database design
Query tuning
Object‑Relational Mapping (ORM)
Data processing tools Spark, Storm, Hadoop, Heron, and others
Amazon Web Services (AWS) or similar cloud platform
Object‑oriented programming (OOP) and functional programming (FP) paradigms
Distributed event streaming systems: Kafka, Pulsar, Kinesis, and others
Profiling applications and JVM tuning
Containerization/containerized deployment of software: Docker, Kubernetes, and others
NoSQL database technologies such as document stores and graph databases
Concurrency and asynchronous programming concepts
Prior life science industry experience, particularly in genomics or biotechnology industry experience
Demonstrated understanding of Agile software delivery
Experience leading large‑scale data warehousing and analytics projects
Professional experience developing software in a distributed computing environment
Expertise in languages covering both object oriented (OO) and functional programming (FP) paradigms
Strong refactoring abilities and test automation skills
Experience building and delivering Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) solutions
Lifelong learner mindset, passionate about software development
Strong interpersonal skills including successful collaboration and problem solving with other departments and colleagues
Understanding of HIPAA and importance of privacy of patient data
Commitment to reflect FMI's values: Integrity, Courage, and Passion
The expected salary range for this position based on the primary location of Boston, MA is $150,000 - $175,400 per year. The salary range is commensurate with Foundation Medicine’s compensation practice and considers factors including, but not limited to, education, training, experience, external market conditions, criticality of role, and internal equity. A discretionary annual bonus may be available based on individual and Company performance. This position also qualifies for Foundation Medicine's benefits.
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Worksite address
boston, MA, 02298, US
Who can apply
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