Software Engineer
South San Francisco, CA

Job Description

Overview

Myriad Genetics is the premium women's health diagnostic organization in the world. We offer DNA screening for people to understand their risks for inherited disease, cancer, and at-risk pregnancies. More than just a DNA test, we have created a platform that connects doctors and patients with information that has meaningful impacts on human health.

We believe in:

* Flat, functional teams with high degree of self ownership
* Recognize and tradeoff between short-term and long-term infrastructure and make them explicit
* Empathy up and down, left and right and both within and external to the organization
* Egoless engineers and managers and empowerment leads to self-managing
* Low barriers to entry, inclusion first, and diversity makes the team and results better
* Having fun, exercising humility, and practicing growth

Responsibilities

* Develop web apps for lab directors, curators, and genetic counselors to work with our data in scalable and efficient ways.
* Design and implement genetic risk calculations as well as genetic reports that are clear and easy to understand.
* Develop ETL pipelines for tracking external datasets (allele frequencies, clinical data) and combining with our internal data and systems.
* Design and implement algorithms for classifying mutations and summarizing our sample data.
* Drive best practices for development, code review, testing, and deployment that will ensure the shipment of quality code into production
* Develop new organization integrations from the ground up and maintain existing point to point integrations
* Work closely with cross functional managers and individual stakeholders to build complete, creative solutions
* Collaborate and communicate openly with your peers and others in the organization
* Dive deep into our systems to become a subject matter expert
* Embracing forward movement over perfection with agile iteration
* Write well-tested and well-understood code
* Enjoy retrospectives and making positive changes within the group and organization
* Are flexible and adept at a variety of tools and languages

Qualifications

* Exposure to Computer Science and Engineering as a discipline. A BS, MS, or PhD degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
* 5+ years of industry experience working with web application development, preferably recent Django experience
* 5+ years of industry experience in a high level language. We work predominantly in Python and Javascript.
* Relational database systems experience, such as PostgreSQL
* Experience with Mac OS, Linux, and Git
* Strong software engineering fundamentals: data modeling, testing, and version control