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Sr. Software Engineer - Insights
Boston, MA

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About Foundation Medicine:

Foundation Medicine began with an idea - to simplify the complex nature of cancer genomics, bringing cutting-edge science and technology to everyday cancer care. Our approach generates insights that help doctors match patients to more treatment options and helps accelerate the development of new therapies. Foundation Medicine is the culmination of talented people coming together to realize an important vision, and the work we do every day impacts real lives.

Summary of Position:

Join a team developing data analytics tools combining clinical and genomic datasets to enable the development of new therapies. Be an integral part of the fight against a disease that affects us all. We are a fast-paced and collaborative team looking for teammates with your skills in cloud technologies, software development, data analysis. Come join our team and help us write code that crushes cancer.

Your Impact:

The Senior Software Engineer will participate as a key member on a small, agile product development team. This person will help develop web applications and micro-services with rich user interfaces that connect to back-end web services using the latest Internet technologies. This person will also be critical in defining a robust and scalable architecture that meets the needs of Foundation Medicine's technology strategy.

Primary Responsibilities and Essential Duties:

* Work closely with a cross-functional team to create web applications.
* Help develop and support web-based applications.
* Help define and participate in software development processes that support continuous product delivery.
* Participate in design and code reviews.
* Participate in scrum ceremonies.

Desired Skills and Experience:

* Expert knowledge of JavaScript.
* Experience working a Biotechnology strongly desired.
* Full-stack application developer.
* Lives and breathes TDD/BDD.
* Experience creating and maintaining a CI/CD pipeline.
* Expert knowledge of OO and functional programming languages and best practices.
* Demonstrable conceptual, troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
* Experience with common JavaScript libraries and data visualization.
* Experience with Node.js and ReactJS (R or similar experience a plus).
* Experience with MongoDB and RDBMS.
* Experience developing RESTful APIs.
* Comfortable developing bash (or other shell) scripts.
* Comfortable with Git.
* Comfortable with Docker.
* Experience setting up a multi-tier web application from scratch.
* Must possess exceptional communication and documentation skills, with a strong knowledge of the software development process.

Education or Experience:

* BS or related experience with a minimum of 5 years of application development on large-scale web applications.

Foundation Medicine is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer and considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, ancestry, age, or national origin. Further, qualified applicants will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability or protected veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also FMI's EEO Statement and EEO is the Law and Supplement. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing this form. (EOE/AAP Employer)

To all recruitment agencies: Foundation Medicine does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Foundation Medicine employees or any other organization location. Foundation Medicine is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

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