Software Development Engineer II

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 99,000 - 157,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Retirement plan

Paid time off

Flexible spending accounts

Job summary

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle is seeking a Software Development Engineer II to drive the Oncoscape platform, a production-grade system for cancer research. You will build intuitive interfaces, design scalable backend services, and advance analytical methods for high-dimensional data in collaboration with researchers and clinicians.

Responsibilities include end-to-end ownership, AWS-based data pipelines, and cross-disciplinary teamwork to translate complex scientific questions into

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 3+ years of direct related experience building and shipping full-stack applications using React, TypeScript, and AWS.
• Experience designing and delivering scalable, cloud-based systems.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the platform end-to-end: drive design, architecture, and iteration of a production system supporting clinical and genomic research workflows.
• Build high-performance full-stack applications: develop intuitive, scalable interfaces and services using React and TypeScript, enabling exploration of complex, high-dimensional datasets.
• Architect data-intensive systems: design secure, scalable APIs and data models for clinical and genomic data using AWS, balancing performance across client and server layers.
• Bridge research and product: translate ambiguous scientific needs into well-defined product features, analytical tools, and user workflows.
• Shape technical and product direction: contribute to architectural decisions, roadmap prioritization, and overall platform strategy in a dynamic environment.
• Collaborate across disciplines: partner with researchers, clinicians, and engineers to ensure the platform delivers meaningful, actionable insights.

Skills

Full-stack development

Frontend/Backend design

Data-intensive systems

Ambiguity tolerance

Cross-functional collaboration

T-SQL knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

React

TypeScript

AWS

API design

CI/CD

Job description

Overview

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center is an independent, nonprofit organization providing adult cancer treatment and groundbreaking research focused on cancer and infectious diseases. Based in Seattle, Fred Hutch is the only National Cancer Institute-designated cancer center in Washington.

With a track record of global leadership in bone marrow transplantation, HIV/AIDS prevention, immunotherapy and COVID-19 vaccines, Fred Hutch has earned a reputation as one of the world’s leading cancer, infectious disease and biomedical research centers. Fred Hutch operates eight clinical care sites that provide medical oncology, infusion, radiation, proton therapy and related services, and network affiliations with hospitals in five states. Together, our fully integrated research and clinical care teams seek to discover new cures to the world’s deadliest diseases and make life beyond cancer a reality.

At Fred Hutch we value collaboration, compassion, determination, excellence, innovation, integrity and respect. Our mission is directly tied to the humanity, dignity and inherent value of each employee, patient, community member and supporter. Our commitment to learning across our differences and similarities make us stronger. We seek employees who bring different and innovative ways of seeing the world and solving problems.

Fred Hutch Cancer Center is seeking a Software Development Engineer II to drive the Oncoscape platform, a production-grade system for cancer research.

You will build intuitive user interfaces, design scalable backend systems, and develop analytical methods for high-dimensional data - all while collaborating closely with researchers and clinicians to turn complex scientific questions into robust softwareand actionable insights. In this role, you willdeliver high-impact software and directly contribute to computational oncology research, shaping the platform and the discoveries it enables.

This role involves building and owning full stack features from 0 to 1. The team has an evolving ecosystem including data processing pipelines, one-click deployments into AWS environments for clients, and a growing suite of integrations into various platforms.

This role will have the opportunity to work partially at our campus and remotely.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the platform end-to-end: drive design, architecture, and iteration of a production system supporting clinical and genomic research workflows.
• Build high-performance full-stack applications: develop intuitive, scalable interfaces and services using React and TypeScript, enabling exploration of complex, high-dimensional datasets.
• Architect data-intensive systems: design secure, scalable APIs and data models for clinical and genomic data using AWS, balancing performance across client and server layers.
• Bridge research and product: translate ambiguous scientific needs into well-defined product features, analytical tools, and user workflows.
• Shape technical and product direction: contribute to architectural decisions, roadmap prioritization, and overall platform strategy in a dynamic environment.
• Collaborate across disciplines: partner with researchers, clinicians, and engineers to ensure the platform delivers meaningful, actionable insights.

Qualifications

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Minimum of 3-6 years of directly related experience.
• 3+ years of experiencebuilding and shipping full-stack applications from zero to production, usingReact, TypeScript, and AWS.
• 3+ years designing and delivering scalable, cloud-based systems.
• Proven ability toown and architect end-to-end, data-intensive systems, making sound tradeoffs across frontend, backend, and data processing layers.
• Comfortable operating inambiguous, fast-moving environments, contributing to bothtechnical architecture and product strategy.
• Experience working incross-functional teams, translating complex scientific requirements intointuitive, production-grade software.
• Strong analytical abilities and problem-solving skills.
• Knowledge of relational databases and T-SQL.
• Solid understanding of Object-Oriented Programming concepts, data structures and algorithms.
• Understanding of specific programming languages.
• Other department-determined skills or experience may be required.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience with AWS Marketplace and deploying reproducible cloud applications across multiple tenants.
• Demonstrated expertise inhigh-dimensional data analysis, including dimensionality reduction techniques (e.g., UMAP, PaCMAP, t-SNE) inoncology or genomics contexts.
• Familiarity withmodern genomics workflowsand their application toprecision oncology and clinical decision-making.

The annual base salary range for this position is from $99,486 to $157,227, and pay offered will be based on experience and qualifications.

This role will have the opportunity to work partially at our campus and remotely.Although Fred Hutch is not sponsoring most H-1B visas at this time, candidates who already hold an H-1B sponsored by another organization and are currently in the U.S. may be eligible for this position.Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center offers employees a comprehensive benefits package designed to enhance health, well-being, and financial security. Benefits include medical/vision, dental, flexible spending accounts, life, disability, retirement, family life support, employee assistance program, onsite health clinic, tuition reimbursement, paid vacation (12-22 days per year), paid sick leave (12-25 days per year), paid holidays (13 days per year), and paid parental leave (up to 4 weeks).

Additional Information

We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, ancestry, national origin, sex, age, disability (physical or mental), marital or veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, political ideology, or membership in any other legally protected class. We desire priority referrals of protected veterans. If due to a disability you need assistance/and or a reasonable accommodation during the application or recruiting process, please send a request to Human Resources at [e-mail] or by calling 206-667-4700.