Research Software Engineer II — Bioinformatics Platform

Scripps Research; Mountain House (CA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employer contributed retirement plan

Health and welfare plans

HSA option and Flexible Spending

Vacation and sick leave

Free on-site parking

Job summary

Scripps Research in La Jolla, CA seeks a Research Programmer II (Software Engineer) to develop software infrastructure for bioinformatics, genetics, and genomics research. You will contribute to large-scale data integration and community platforms like outbreak.info and mygene.info.

The role spans frontend, backend, and DevOps with opportunity to focus on preferred areas. Collaborative, inclusive environment with hybrid/on-site arrangements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related field, or an equivalent combination of education, training and/or experience.
• A minimum of two years of experience in software application development and research programming.
• Experience with software development in Python or JavaScript.
• A demonstrated ability to apply the fundamentals of software application development.
• Experience with version control, including git and github.

Responsibilities

• The hiring laboratory is involved in numerous projects to build software infrastructure and tools for bioinformatics, genetics, and genomics research.
• We have a particular emphasis on building large scale data integration infrastructure and on community platforms that enable collaboration and crowdsourcing.
• Representative projects include outbreak.info, the BioThings SDK for building APIs (biothings.io), and mygene.info.
• The broader research team includes a mix of software engineers and scientists; of graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and staff; and of geographically and demographically diverse individuals.
• This position can focus on any aspect of software engineering, including developing front-end interfaces to discover and analyze data, backend systems to efficiently access biomedical data, and/or DevOps to deploy and maintain software infrastructure.

Skills

Python

JavaScript

Git

Software development

Research programming

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Elasticsearch

MongoDB

Postgres

Nginx

Linux server administration

AWS

Docker/Docker-compose

Ansible

Job description

Scripps Research in La Jolla, CA seeks a Research Programmer II (Software Engineer) to develop software infrastructure for bioinformatics, genetics, and genomics research. You will contribute to large-scale data integration and community platforms like outbreak.info and mygene.info.

The role spans frontend, backend, and DevOps with opportunity to focus on preferred areas. Collaborative, inclusive environment with hybrid/on-site arrangements.