Software Engineer, Bioinformatics, Sequencing

Job ID: 3403246319
Job date: 2017-09-07
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Company : Roche 

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Role : Technician 


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Job Description:
Roche Sequencing Solutions (RSS) is seeking a talented member of its Software Engineering team within the Development Bioinformatics department.

The Software Engineering team works closely with:

  • RSS Development’s Application teams, helping them build software that meets the department’s needs (today, tomorrow, and next year)
  • Other Roche teams, helping to ensure that collaborations run smoothly
  • RSS Systems’ teams; helping to ensure that software produced by the Application teams and other organizations can be incorporated in our products.
  • The successful candidate will have experience working in a similar setting. You should enjoy working with others and have a strong desire to pursue creative solutions to challenging problems in an interdisciplinary and fast paced environment.
Responsibilities:
  • Develop software in collaboration with Application teams and external collaborators.
  • Help maintain our engineering-oriented resources (e.g. continuous integration and source code control) and encouraging their use by our various communities.
  • Embody our Good Programming Practices, adaptable engineering practices that scale to support our pie-in-sky research projects, our product-oriented projects and all the projects in-between.
Who you are:

You’re someone who wants to influence your own development. You’re looking for a company where you have the opportunity to pursue your interests across functions and geographies. Where a job title is not considered the final definition of who you are, but the starting point.

Qualifications:

  • Minimum 3 years experience
  • Be familiar with several programming languages such as: Java, Python, Perl, R, C++ across the spectrum of paradigms and be comfortable working in a “scripting” and a “systems” programming language.
  • Be an experienced software developer in Unix-like environments, used to following good practices across the entire software life cycle.
  • Comfortable working with modern version control systems, continuous integration systems and issue tracking systems.
  • Have experience working on a small team of developers, juggling tasks, delivering on commitments and expanding your horizons as an engineer.
  • Have a demonstrated ability to work on a team with other programmers and domain experts.
Preferred:
  • 4 year degree in computer science, bioinformatics, physics or a related discipline or equivalent work experience.
  • Possess organizational agility, the ability to develop working relationships within a large organization that cross organizational boundaries and promote efficient solutions to problems.
  • Previous experience with large-scale NGS data analysis is a plus.


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Additional Info:
Roche is the world leader in in vitro diagnostics (IVD) and tissue-based cancer diagnostics and a front runner in diabetes management.

At Roche, 91,700 people across 100 countries are pushing back the frontiers of healthcare. Working together, we’ve become one of the world’s leading research-focused healthcare groups. Our success is built on innovation, curiosity and diversity.

Roche is an equal opportunity employer and strictly prohibits unlawful discrimination based upon an individual’s race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin/ancestry, age, mental/physical disability, medical condition, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

If you have a disability and need an accommodation in connection with the on-line application process, please email us at US.Accommodation@roche.com. EEO is the Law

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