Senior Back End Software Engineer, GRAIL
$145-175k
2 days a week in office (Menlo Park, CA)
Early cancer detection and research
Job no longer available
Early cancer detection and research
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$145-175k
2 days a week in office (Menlo Park, CA)
1001+ employees
Company mission
GRAIL's mission is to transform cancer care through early detection.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Bioinformatics, or similar technical and 5-8 years of experience or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Bioinformatics, or similar technical with 2-5 years of experience. Years of experience can be substituted for degree
- Strong understanding of Computer Science fundamentals and concepts involving Data Structures and Algorithms
- Experience in full stack software development experience building highly reliable, mission-critical software with working experience designing, developing, testing, and maintaining full-stack applications and microservice ecosystems
- Deep understanding of security principles including encryption
- Design and implement core, high-performance, scalable software components and APIs
- Excellent knowledge of general-purpose programming languages including Java, Python, Go Language, Docker, Redis, MySQL, & Postgres
- Passion for large data sets, APIs, access & identity management, and/or delivering scalable backend systems
- Strong knowledge of building restful APIs for internal and external products
- Experience in Okta, Auth0 would be a plus
- Experience building related services, such as Apple Pay would be a plus
What the job involves
- GRAIL is currently seeking a Backend Software Developer to support our commercial application team
- In this role you will contribute to GRAIL's custom all customer-facing software used to capture and manage clinical data
- Work within a team of engineers to deliver new features and tools on very complex applications
- Work closely with product owners to transform roadmap items into functional software
- Write unit tests and automated tests
- Collaborate and lead technical discussions with the team
- Use your experience developing front-end applications and distributed systems to build native cloud-based software solutions
Our take
Detecting cancer early matters a lot. Survival rates are much higher when cancer is diagnosed in earlier stages. However, early screening only exists for a limited number of cancer types and the majority of cancer diagnosis are made later, when survival rates are much lower.
GRAIL is on a mission to improve cancer detection and save lives. By bringing together experts in bioinformatics, clinical science and deep learning, the company is building models from tumour genome sequencing data to provide actionable insights into how multiple types of cancers could be detected early using blood tests.
The development of these blood tests is supported by population-scale clinical studies. GRAIL is building an atlas characterising the levels of 'cell-free nucleic acids' (a key indicator of cancers) in thousands of individuals with and without cancer to help validate their early-stage tests. These will be some of the largest cancer-related studies ever to date. The company has also developed Garelli - a new blood test that has the ability to detect more than 50 types of cancer through a single blood draw, now becoming available on health insurance plans such as Curative Insurance.
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Insights
11% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
May 2020
$390m
SERIES D
Dec 2019
$125m
SERIES D
Total funding: $1.8bn
Company benefits
- Outstanding People - Join a team of passionate and dedicated professionals, committed to collaboration, education, and proactive problem-solving.
- Strong Compensation - We offer competitive salaries and savings plans to provide for long-term financial planning.
- Complete Health Coverage - Take advantage of comprehensive health coverage, with medical, dental and vision, to keep you and your family healthy.
- Work-Life Balance - Make everyday life more manageable with flexible time off – we trust you to do great work and take time for yourself.
Company HQ
Menlo Park, CA
Leadership
Bob Ragusa
(CEO, not founder)BSE and MSE from Carnegie Mellon and MBA from University of Connecticut. Over 3 years as a EVP at Accuray and 7 years as COO at Illumina. Currently a Board member at Twist Bioscience.
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