Backend Software Engineer

Location: Onsite 3x/week in South San Francisco, CA

Duration: 12-month contract to start

IV Process: 1 LPS screening and then 2 more rounds with at least one coding round, 2nd interview round will be onsite in South SF (Hence why we can't relocate)

Description: Software Engineer (Consultant), gCS Catalysts

The Position:

The Computational Catalyst in the Genentech Research & Early Development (gRED)

Computational Sciences (gCS) organization is seeking a talented and passionate Software

Engineer who loves tackling challenging technology problems and creating architecturally

sound, high-quality software that empower scientists and transform critical business

strategies.

gCS is on a mission to partner across the organization to realize the potential of data, AI, and

computational approaches that will revolutionize how targets and therapeutics are discovered

and developed, ultimately enabling novel treatments for patients across the world.

Duties Include:

-Design, develop, and maintain user-friendly and responsive web UI based software

applications on AWS cloud

-Develop and maintain backend systems

-Develop and maintain asynchronous and/or synchronous integrations between systems

-Design and optimize SQLand No-SQL database schemas and queries for efficient data

storage and retrieval

-Contribute code to other cloud based services written in languages like Java, Python,

etc.

-Write and maintain robust suite of tests to ensure the functionality and integrity of the

developed applications

-Collaborate cross-functionally with the team to understand user needs and translate

them into user-friendly and aesthetic user interfaces

-Collaborate closely with a team of scientists to build tools that assist in ground-breaking

biology research

Minimum Qualifications:

-5 years of software development experience

-Proven track record of constructing quality, user-friendly tools in a fast-paced

environment

-Product Expertise: With 3 years of experience in testing, maintaining, or launching

software products, and 1 year in software design and architecture, you'll be a key player

in our success

-Understanding of data structures algorithms(DSA) and programming languages like

Python Java and Groovy

-Ability to identify patterns, develop general-purpose frameworks, and address scalability

requirements for data pipelines and database/data warehouse solutions

-Ability to quickly acquire new technologies and programming languages

-Follow test driven development and clean code patterns.

-Use Continuous integration and delivery approach

-Experience with cloud computing platforms, especially AWS, AWS services and data

warehouse solutions like Snowflake or Redshift

-Demonstrated technical expertise in solving challenging programming and design

problems

-Proficiency in developing and optimizing both batch and real-time data pipelines,

encompassing tasks such as data collection, consolidation, normalization, and

scheduling

-Team-oriented individuals with strong collaboration, prioritization, and adaptability skills

-Effective collaboration with data scientists to refine data models, design improvements,

conduct experiments, and iteratively improve results

Preferred Qualifications:

-Experience with biological data and processes is a strong plus

-Experience working with scientists or in a research environment is advantageous

ML and Software Expertise: Utilize your deep knowledge of ML and Software Engineering

Machine Learning skills to unlock the potential of data, technology, and computational

approaches.

-SQL and no-SQL proficiency

Education

-Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Sciences, Data Science, or related fields.