Senior Manager, Laboratory Software Engineering

NeoGenomics Laboratories; Durham (NC); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

NeoGenomics is seeking a Senior Manager, Laboratory Software Engineering to lead a team delivering secure, scalable IT platforms for clinical operations. You will oversee onshore and offshore engineers, guiding architecture decisions and ensuring high-quality software throughout the lifecycle.

The role emphasizes technical leadership, collaboration with IT Ops, and delivery excellence in a regulated healthcare environment, with hybrid work options across multiple US locations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Information Technology or related fields, or equivalent work experience
• 8+ years in information technology, including 4+ years in a leadership or managerial role
• Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) experience required
• Authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship
• Strong backend, RESTful APIs, and microservices architecture
• Java (Spring, Spring Boot) and Python (Flask, Django, FastAPI)
• Databases PostgreSQL and MySQL
• Experience applying AI-assisted coding platforms in regulated environments
• Experience leading software implementations in healthcare/scientific environments
• Proven coaching, hiring, and developing teams
• Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure)

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of developers and engineers across the full software development lifecycle
• Manage onshore and offshore team resources and priorities
• Drive technical excellence, code quality, and process improvements
• Foster high-performance culture and developer growth
• Own delivery outcomes for development workstreams
• Ensure velocity, security, and reliability of software solutions
• Lead incident management and root-cause analysis of production issues
• Coach, hire, and grow development teams
• Collaborate with IT Ops and vendors to align with requirements
• Plan resource needs and manage schedules and risks
• Promote AI-assisted development and testing practices
• Translate requirements into system and technical designs

Skills

Backend systems

RESTful APIs

Microservices

Java (Spring/Spring Boot)

Python (Flask/Django/FastAPI)

PostgreSQL/MySQL

AI-assisted coding

Leadership / coaching

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure)

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or IT

Tools

AWS

Azure

Job description

Are you motivated to participate in a dynamic, multi-tasking environment? Do you want to join a company that invests in its employees? Are you seeking a position where you can use your skills while continuing to be challenged and learn? Then we encourage you to dive deeper into this opportunity.

We believe in career development and empowering our employees. Not only do we provide career coaches internally, but we offer many training opportunities to expand your knowledge base! We have highly competitive benefits with a variety HMO and PPO options. We have company 401k match along with an Employee Stock Purchase Program. We have tuition reimbursement, leadership development, and even start employees off with 16 days of paid time off plus holidays. We offer wellness courses and have highly engaged employee resource groups. Come join the Neo team and be part of our amazing World Class Culture!

NeoGenomics is looking for a Senior Manager, Software Engineering who wants to continue to learn in order to allow our company to grow. This is a hybrid in office position with Monday - Friday schedule to work out of either Ramsey, NJ, Durham, NC or Fort Myers, FL locations.

Now that you know what we're looking for in talent, let us tell you why you'd want to work at NeoGenomics:

As an employer, we promise to provide you with a purpose driven mission in which you have the opportunity to save lives by improving patient care through the exceptional work you perform. Together, we will become the world's leading cancer reference laboratory.

Position Summary:

As a Senior Manager, Laboratory Software Engineering you will lead a team of developers and engineers responsible for the technical design, development, delivery, and support of NeoGenomics' Laboratory IT platforms and applications. You will provide technical and operational leadership across the full software development lifecycle, ensuring high-quality, secure, and scalable solutions that support business-critical and clinical operations.

Responsibilities:

• Primarily responsible for NeoGenomics’ overall application development,integration, and administration of solution environments and maintenance efforts
• Manage the team (onshore and offshore) that builds and maintains solutions, balancing competing priorities
• Drive technical excellence across the development team, including proactive code optimization, maintenance, and process improvement
• Lead people development, fostering team management, high performance, high-quality culture, and process excellence
• Own delivery outcomes for development workstreams
• Ensure delivery velocity, quality, security, and reliability
• Initiate and implement development process improvements
• Drive adoption of AI-assisted development and testing practices
• Coach, hire, and grow development teams
• Estimate project resource requirements and manage product delivery schedules and associated risks
• Collaborate with internal teams, vendors, and stakeholders to align products with customer requirements and expectations, translating functional requirements into systemand technical designs
• Partner with IT Operations and external vendors to ensure technical quality, engineering standards and successful delivery of software solutions
• Lead incident management for complex production issues, including resolution, root cause analysis, and proactive prevention

Education, Experience & Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Information Technology or related fields, or equivalent work experience
• 8+ years of experience in information technology, including 4+ years in a leadership or managerial role Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS)experience required
• Must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future employer sponsorship.
• Strong expertise in backend systems, RESTful APIs, and microservices architecture
• Hands-on experience with Java frameworks (Spring, Spring Boot) and Python frameworks (Flask, Django, FastAPI)
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented design principles.
• Proficiency with databases (SQL and NoSQL) such as PostgreSQL and MySQL
• Demonstrated experience applying AI-assisted coding platforms and software design best practices in regulated environments
• Demonstrated experience leading software implementations in scientific or healthcare related environments
• Proven ability to coach, hire, and develop high-performing teams
• Demonstrated high bias for action and collaborative mindset
• Effective communication in written and verbal forms
• Acquires trust and respect as an effective escalation point for complex issues.Receives and shares knowledge with peers to foster team growth
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure)

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Equal employment opportunity, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.