Senior Software Engineer

ILLUMINA INTERNATIONAL GENOMICS PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Illumina International Genomics Pte. Ltd. is seeking a highly motivated Full Stack Software Engineer to join the Bioinformatics organization.

You will work on software that helps scientists organize, analyze, and interpret complex biological data from Illumina’s multi-omics technologies. You will deliver end-to-end features across interfaces, services, and data pipelines. You will collaborate with scientists, product partners, designers, and engineers, applying Scrum or Kanban practices to

Qualifications

• Experience building data-intensive web apps with complex UIs.
• Strong TS/JS/HTML/CSS across Angular/React or equivalent.
• Backend in Java/Kotlin with Spring Boot or JVM framework.
• REST APIs, service integrations, asynchronous processing, and PostgreSQL.
• Cloud, container tech, CI/CD, and AI-assisted development tools.
• Experience with Scrum, Kanban, or similar agile practices.

Responsibilities

• Deliver full-stack features across UIs, backend services, databases, and integrations.
• Build workflows for ingesting, organizing, transforming, analyzing, and presenting data.
• Create interactive visual experiences for exploring large datasets.
• Extend and modernize established applications with maintainability, performance, reliability, and tests.
• Collaborate with scientists, product partners, designers, and engineers through reviews.

Skills

Data-intensive web apps

TS/JS/HTML/CSS

Java/Kotlin backend

REST APIs & SQL

Cloud & containers

Agile methodologies

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in CS or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

OpenID Connect

Job description

Illumina is seeking a highly motivated Full Stack Software Engineer to join the Bioinformatics organization. Our teams develop software that helps scientists organize, analyze, and interpret complex biological data from Illumina’s multi-omics technologies.

Our products combine interactive web applications, large scientific datasets, and long-running computational analyses. Engineers work across new product experiences and established codebases, delivering new capabilities while improving existing systems safely and incrementally.

Responsibilities

• Independently deliver full-stack features across user interfaces, backend services, databases, and external integrations.

• Build workflows for ingesting, organizing, transforming, analyzing, and presenting scientific data.

• Create highly interactive visual experiences for exploring and manipulating large, complex datasets.

• Extend and modernize established applications while improving maintainability, performance, reliability, and test coverage.

• Collaborate with scientists, product partners, designers, and engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and iterative delivery.

Required Skills and Experience

• Experience developing data-intensive web applications with complex, interactive user interfaces.

• Strong TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS skills, using Angular, React, or a comparable framework.

• Strong Java or Kotlin experience developing backend services with Spring Boot or a similar JVM framework.

• Experience with REST APIs, service integrations, asynchronous processing, SQL, and relational databases such as PostgreSQL.

• Experience with cloud and container technologies, automated testing, CI/CD, and responsible use of AI-assisted development tools.

• Demonstrated success delivering high-quality software using Scrum, Kanban, or similar collaborative development practices.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Experience with open-source visualization frameworks, canvas, WebGL, SVG, scene graphs, or spatial interaction patterns.

• Experience with AWS, object storage, messaging systems, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, or Helm.

• Experience with OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, and secure multi-user applications.

• Experience developing genomics, bioinformatics, scientific computing, or multi-omics software.

• Experience with releases requiring documented requirements, traceable testing, review evidence, and controlled changes.

Education and Experience

Bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience, with five or more years of professional software development experience.