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Original Job Post

Foundation Medicine · 2 days ago

Senior Software Engineer

Boston, MA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

8+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Lead assigned team-wide initiatives, such as investigating design approaches, prototyping new technologies, and evaluating technical feasibility.

Develop FMI’s software, particularly the CompBio Genomics Platform.

Leverage technical expertise to support a culture of peer design, code reviews, and knowledge sharing sessions.

Establish clear technical roadmaps to ensure the maintainability and quality of the product’s code base while reducing technical debt.

Write, test, and refactor high quality software and code that is reusable, testable, efficient, clean and well-commented.

Maintain efforts for product or platform to be cloud-native, resilient, secure and scalable.

Coach, guide, mentor, and teach team members with less experience.

Drive efforts for assigned team’s adoption of established best engineering practices.

Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements including, but not limited to, automating manual processes, optimizing product delivery, and redesigning infrastructure for greater scalability.

Debug complex problems escalated by other team members.

Communicate with applicable stakeholders to obtain information on requirements.

Provide software engineering expertise and support per business needs.

Other duties as assigned.

Qualification

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Unix-based operating systemsJavaSoftware engineeringPythonBashAWSAMQPKafkaAWS SNS/SQSPulsarKinesisRelational database designSpringHibernateContinuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)Distributed systems designMentoring

Required

Bachelor’s degree and 6+ years of software engineering experience; or

Master’s degree and 4+ years of software engineering experience, or

10+ years of software engineering experience in lieu of a degree

Proficiency with Unix-based operating systems

Proficiency in Java

Preferred

Advanced degree in Computer Science, Math, or a related field

Significant understanding of Unix-based operating systems

Highly proficient in Java application development and package management

Proficient in Python

Proficient in Bash

8+ years of professional software engineering experience

3+ years of professional experience with the following:

Leading the architecture and design of new and/or current systems

Amazon Web Services (AWS) or similar cloud platform

Distributed event messaging systems such as AMQP, Kafka, AWS SNS/SQS, Pulsar, or Kinesis

Relational database design

Java development experience with Spring, Hibernate

Experience designing distributed systems

Experience building and delivering Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) solutions

History of mentoring less experienced software engineers

Company

Foundation Medicine

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Foundation medicine is a molecular information company developing clinical diagnostic tests that facilitates personalized cancer therapies.

Founded in 2010

Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

1,001-5,000 employees

http://www.foundationmedicine.com

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