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
As a public and profitable company, we have ambitious plans to scale and enhance our products and services. We’re looking for software engineers who can work holistically to design strategic solutions that go beyond just writing code. A strong track record in understanding business needs, communicating effectively, and delivering impactful results is essential, along with leadership qualities to guide and inspire colleagues.
Job Responsibilities
As a Software Engineer, you’ll play a key role in advancing our technology platform and building software products that make a meaningful impact. You’ll have the opportunity to work on developing new capabilities that address real-world business challenges for our users, and contribute solutions that enhance user experiences and business workflows.
Day to day tasks may include:
- Participate in code reviews
- Dive into unfamiliar code to troubleshoot or add a new feature
- Perform basic CICD/DevOps tasks
- Participate in feature development of larger projects
- Participate in Support tasks, including off-hours and weekend on-call rotations.
People Manager
No
Education, Experience, and Skills
- Proficiency in at least 3 software languages, with a demonstrated ability to quickly learn new ones as needed. Python is highly desired, but other languages such as C#, Java, Javascript/Typescript, or others are acceptable.
- 3+ years experience developing back-end services and APIs
- 3+ years experience building front-end applications using modern frameworks (React highly desired, but Vue, or Angular are acceptable).
- 3+ years experience with data modeling using multiple database and storage types
- 1+ years experience familiarity deploying and maintaining services in the cloud (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure, OCI)
Bonus points for:
- Prior healthcare / health tech experience, or experience in other regulated industries, particularly with data privacy and compliance requirements
- Kubernetes
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations
- None
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand; sit and use hands to finger, handle, or feel.
- Ability to stand, walk, and sit for extended periods.
Work Environment
- Work is primarily performed in a remote office setting.
- Extended periods of stationary computer work.
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.