Software Engineer V

GeneDx (Nasdaq: WGS) delivers personalized and actionable health insights to inform diagnosis, direct treatment, and improve drug discovery. The company is uniquely positioned to accelerate the use of genomic and large-scale clinical information to enable precision medicine as the standard of care. GeneDx is at the forefront of transforming healthcare through its industry-leading exome and genome testing and interpretation services, fueled by the world’s largest, rare disease data sets. For more information, please visit www.genedx.com.

Summary  

GeneDx, the world’s leading rare disease genetic diagnostics company, is seeking a senior engineer for our lab workflow and orchestration team. 

This role is a senior individual contributor role expected to coordinate and support the technical work of other engineers and external consultants focused on our lab orchestration system. As a technical lead, you are not responsible for people management, but work with other engineers, product leads, and operations stakeholders to refine the technical strategy for the team. You will know when to ask for guidance from more senior technical staff, needing minimal guidance to ensure your teammates have a clear technical plan. 

Your careful decision making will ensure our product plans and stakeholder expectations are met on time. By practicing repeatable methods for clarifying stakeholder needs and refining technical plans, you will demonstrate a strong business expertise for lab operations software. You will work with our Product team to guide the best technical approaches to providing good outcomes for our users and customers, rather than simply translating feature requests into engineering tickets. Your ability to plan well within your technical specialty as a lab orchestration engineer will make the team stronger and demonstrate strong functional knowledge of relevant programming languages and design patterns for workflow orchestration.   

Job Responsibilities

• Guide technical efforts of a small development team to develop and support our lab orchestration software without delays to our product and technical roadmaps 
• Create multifaceted, performant solutions that bridge the lab orchestration system with other existing systems and automation platforms 
• Ensure best practices in software development  
• Make significant strategic contributions and lead tactical implementation of our technical roadmap.  
• Provide support for production related issues and ensure staff meets our defined SLA commitments 
• Communicate with key stake holders on the progress of projects and alert to any issues that may arise 
• Timely implementation of improved workflow orchestrations  
• Better monitoring, measurement, and report insights for the wet laboratory processes with the addition of each new workflow 
• Establish a strong team of engineers who can fully own development responsibilities without a need for third-party consultants 

People Manager

• No

Education, Experience, and Skills

• Relevant education (BS/MS) and/or equivalent experience in a field such as computer science, software engineering, or operations research 
• 5+ years of experience in software development with demonstrated experience leading a team and managing projects with technical efforts 
• Active desire to reduce developer friction and improve quality of existing software products and frameworks 
• Experience developing a LIMS or customizing a third-party LIMS 
• Basic understanding of laboratory procedures including Next Generation Sequencing 
• Proficient knowledge of Python, HTML, JavaScript, and SQL, with the ability to learn additional languages and frameworks quickly  
• Proficient with modern engineering methods, including version control, CID, and containerization 
• Ability to understand complex problems and disambiguate requirements 
• Advanced API design (e.g. throttling, versioning, idempotency, statelessness)   
• Advanced db schema design, ability to model real-world problems 
• Ability to propose design choices based on tradeoffs 
• Provides thorough and meaningful code reviews 
• Able to work within and enhance an existing codebase 
• Able to prototype, develop, or debug quickly 
• Architectures basics - can design, deploy, and diagnose at least a simple full-stack application to the cloud 
• Advanced CI/CD Practices: Expertise in designing and managing advanced CI/CD pipelines. 
• Multi-Cloud Strategies: Knowledge of multi-cloud and hybrid cloud strategies. 
• Security Best Practices: Understanding of security best practices in DevOps (IAM, network security). 
• Kubernetes and Container Orchestration: Proficiency in container orchestration (Kubernetes). 

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

• None

Physical Demands

• Ability to stand, walk, and sit for extended periods.

Work Environment

• Work is primarily performed in a remote office setting.

Acknowledgements

The above job description is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position.  Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties, as assigned by their supervisor.