Senior Bioinformatics Engineer

Summary

Join Parse Biosciences as a Senior Bioinformatics Engineer and play a key role in guiding the technical direction of the Trailmaker platform. You will design, develop, and test new computational pipelines and visualizations for single cell data analysis, continuously iterate and improve existing features, and troubleshoot customer analyses. Collaborate closely with other engineers in a highly collaborative, full-stack environment. This is a full-time, 100% remote position. You will be responsible for the entire development process, from planning and implementation to testing and completion. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in bioinformatics, experience with various tools and technologies, and a passion for building user-friendly data analysis software.

Requirements

• Always put the user first
• Be an active participant and decision-maker during technical discussions
• Be passionate and empathetic - you fall in love with problems, not solutions. You’re a doer, and a helper
• Create, refine and improve development processes together with the team
• Champion and evangelize the agile development methodology
• Take pride in your work
• Think like an owner
• Experiment, test, try, fail and learn continuously
• Help and mentor team mates
• Have experience and desire to work as part of a close-knit team
• Think like an owner, and take pride in your work
• Help and mentor teammates
• Excitement about building tools that will be used by thousands of single cell researchers
• A track record of designing, building and improving data analysis software that solves user problems
• A degree in bioinformatics (or similar) and 8+ total years of experience working in bioinformatics engineer roles. Specifically: 5+ years of bioinformatics engineering experience, and 3+ years in a senior-level bioinformatics engineering role, leading technical decisions and guiding the direction of product development
• Fluent in Python and R
• Advanced proficiency building bioinformatics pipelines with Nextflow or similar frameworks (e.g. Snakemake)
• Practical experience of working with open source single cell data analysis tools and packages , including Scanpy and Seurat
• Significant professional experience and knowledge of web development
• Experience using version control systems such as Git/GitHub
• Competency working with container-based cloud applications, ideally on AWS
• Strong data visualization skills
• Significant experience in conducting code reviews and providing feedback to others
• Experience and desire to work as part of a close-knit team

Responsibilities

• Always put the user first
• Design, prototype, develop, and test new computational pipelines and visualizations for single cell data analysis in Trailmaker
• Continuously iterate and improve existing single cell pipelines and features
• Receive and incorporate feedback from customers and colleagues
• Perform troubleshooting of customer analyses
• Keep up-to-date on the rapidly evolving field of single cell genomics and relay observations of new methods, benchmarking studies, etc. to the team
• Experiment, test, try, fail and learn continuously

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and Rx (prescription) coverage beginning on the 1st day of the month following your start date. Parse covers 90% of the monthly premiums for employees, and 60% for dependents
• A 401(k) program with no waiting period to participate
• Basic life insurance and short and long-term disability coverage. Monthly premiums for both are covered at 100% by Parse
• Flexible spending account (FSA) options for medical, dependent care, and commuter expenses
• A transportation program (Seattle only)
• New hire equity grants
• 12 paid holidays annually
• A generous time off policy