Python Software Engineer

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Job date: 2017-05-12
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Company : Twist Bioscience 

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Role : Technician 


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Job Description:
Twist Bioscience is a disruptive synthetic biology startup that already collected big name customers. Our goal is to build the most powerful online platform backed by by our unique high-throughput DNA synthesis technology. We want to make DNA synthesis as easy as ordering everyday products with the smoothest end-to-end user experience.

To deliver on these goals, we need to build a large scale MES (manufacturing execution system) platform that encompasses R&D, bioinformatics, machine learning, e-commerce, manufacturing, shipping and laboratory management (LIMS) Unlike other manufacturing operations, every order is different and every order item is unique, bringing unique challenges.

As a Python Software Engineer at Twist, you will be working on one of the most essential system that drives our business. You will have a significant impact throughout the company and your passion will be quickly felt and recognized.

Required skills or experience:

-Mastery of object-oriented programming concepts, large-scale software architecture, networking and distributed systems

-Passion for software technologies and knowledge of multiple languages and frameworks

-Experience using Python and full-stack web framework (e.g. flask, falcon, SQLAlchemy)

-Strong relational database and orm experience

-Familiarity using Redis, DynamoDB, RedShift, Graph databases, Celery, RabbitMQ

-BS/MS in Computer Science / Engineering or equivalent work experience

Preferred:

-Experience with Python 3.5, Postgres, Neo4j

-Experience in a biotech environment

-Experience with or exposure to Angular, React/Flux, Node.js


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Benefits:

-Highly competitive salary and equity

-Best-in-class benefits including health, dental, vision, disability insurance, life insurance, 401k

Location:

-San Francisco, CA

-Mission Bay / Dog Patch area

-Walking distance from Caltrain (4th and King), free shuttle available from Caltrain

-On KT line, UCSF/Mission Bay stop

-Great views of downtown and the bay

Other requirements: Authorized to work in the US

About Twist Bioscience:

At Twist Bioscience, our expertise is accelerating science and innovation by leveraging the power of scale. We have developed a proprietary semiconductor-based synthetic DNA manufacturing process featuring a 10,000-well high throughput silicon platform capable of producing synthetic biology tools, including genes, oligonucleotide pools and variant libraries. By synthesizing DNA on silicon instead of on traditional 96-well plastic plates, our platform overcomes the current inefficiencies of synthetic DNA production, and enables cost-effective, rapid, high-quality and high throughput synthetic gene production, which in turn, expedites the design, build, test cycle to enable personalized medicines, pharmaceuticals, sustainable chemical production, improved agriculture production, diagnostics, biodetection and data storage. For more information, please visit www.twistbioscience.com ( http://www.twistbioscience.com/ ). Twist Bioscience is on Twitter. Sign up to follow our Twitter feed @TwistBioscience athttps://twitter.com/TwistBioscience ( https://twitter.com/TwistBioscience ).

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