Senior Software Engineer, Seqera Labs
Nextflow
Equity available
The intelligent engine for life sciences
Job no longer available
The intelligent engine for life sciences
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
Equity available
101-200 employees
Company mission
To simplify complex data analysis pipelines in the cloud.
Role
Who you are
- Experience in the design and development of software in the context of scientific and high-performance computing
- Experience in an object-oriented programming language, preferably (but not limited to) Java and Groovy
- Experience working on complex modular/multi-component software projects
- Familiarity with Git version control system and related ecosystem
- A problem-solving attitude, with demonstrated ability to formulate, test and critically evaluate solutions to challenging problems (ideally in software development)
- A proactive growth attitude, with demonstrated ability to research and apply innovative technologies to solve challenges
Desirable
- Experience in developing/using Nextflow or other workflow orchestration engines
- Background or experience in bioinformatics, life/health sciences, AI/ML, or other data-intensive domains
- Experience with one or more of these software technologies: containers, package managers, filesystems, object storage and parallel computing
- Experience in deployments on public cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP, ..)
- Experience in designing domain-specific languages
What the job involves
- As a Senior Software Engineer, you will join the core development team behind Nextflow, the worldwide successful open-source workflow orchestrator chosen by hundreds of thousands of scientists to deploy their data-driven pipelines in a modern, reproducible and collaborative manner
- Design and implement new functionalities in the Nextflow runtime and language
- Maintain and develop integrations with a rich ecosystem of internal and 3rd party components, including the Seqera Platform
- Gather and critically discuss requirements within the Nextflow team and in coordination with the product team, customers and the wider Nextflow open-source community
- Address requests and feedback from users and pipeline developers across the community, through software solutions and promotion of best practices
- Grow and apply your working knowledge of software tools in scientific computing, including high-performance computing and cloud platforms
- Stay up-to-date with the latest trends in modern software engineering and cloud technologies, and experiment their application into Nextflow
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Commercial DNA sequencing and advances in biometrics have led to an explosion in biological data, which is likely to prove critical in tackling the major problems facing the life sciences. The problem is, the data is so vast in quantity and diverse in type that analysing it and managing it can prove prohibitively expensive. This is where data orchestration and workflow platform Seqera Labs comes into its own.
Seqera is focused predominantly on facilitating big data analysis and management in the life sciences, and it has gotten impressive traction. Its Nextflow product, a distributed data analysis solution, has been used by over 10,000 organizations. This has included teams working on COVID sequencing, and on cancers.
What's so valuable about its offering is that it can be used by people who understand the data without the need for external teams, which has led to it becoming an industry standard. Seqera has been funded generously, and acquired AI bioinformatics company TinyBio, empowering it to play a pivotal role in key life-sciences developments going forward.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Oct 2022
$25.4m
SERIES A
Sep 2021
$5.5m
SEED
Total funding: $31.1m
Company benefits
- Continuous Learning: We believe in empowering our people to expand their knowledge and be their best selves. That’s why you have a budget dedicated to being a life-long learner.
- Make yourself at home: Whether in our office in Barcelona or from home, we want you to make yourself comfortable to reach your full potential.
- Healthcare: We take care of your health and offer comprehensive packages for all our employees, no matter where they are located.
- Take ownership: Use your initiative to work on new ideas and pursue them. Receive support and encouragement in doing so with maximum freedom.
- Team events: We gather have weekly team lunches, bi-weekly social events, annual department offsites and annual company-wide retreats.
- Employee ownership: We value employee ownership and actively support everyone to participate in our overall long-term success.
Company HQ
El Poblenou, Barcelona, Spain
Leadership
Paolo Di Tommaso
(Co-Founder & Chief Architect)Paolo is a Computer Scientist with broad experience as a Software Engineer and Software Architect in life science and healthcare applications.
Evan Floden
(Co-Founder & CEO)Evan is a Biomedicine PhD graduate, with broad experience across Biomedicine and Computing, including work as the Senior Bioinformatician at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, and as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Genomic Regulation.
Dan Pasette
(CTO)Prior to joining Seqera in 2025, Dan was the CTo at Regrow. He also served as a Technical Advisor at Neurelo and as a Senior Technical Advisor at Kiip.
Colin MacLaughlin
(CFO)Colin is the founder and Fractional CFO at Vulpine Advisory. Previously, he served as the CFO at Thriva and spent over 7 years at Crowdcube in various roles, including VP of FInance & Operations and as CFO.
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