Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Adaptive Biotechnologies Corp. is a biotechnology company focused on harnessing the adaptive immune system to transform how diseases are diagnosed and treated. The Senior Manager, Software Engineering leads a software development team responsible for enhancements and new product development, overseeing development phases, production systems, releases, and technical improvement. The role also manages team priorities, collaborates with internal stakeholders, and supports employee growth and performance.
Responsibilities
- Oversees all development phases including specification, design, implementation, testing, deployment and running software that supports Adaptive’s production software systems
- Interacts with software program managers and internal customers to define application requirements and/or necessary modifications
- Manage a team of software developers, prioritizing efforts to align with company and team goals
- Develop strong technical understanding of production systems and plan for continuous improvement with elimination of technical debt
- Participate in release activities, phases including specification, design, implementation, testing, deployment
- All other duties as assigned
Skills
- Bachelor's in computer science, Bioinformatics, or equivalent is required with 12+ years of related software engineering and leadership experience
- Masters in computer science with 8+ years of related experience
- Experience creating and maintaining complex software using modern methodologies in both Linux and Windows environments
- Extensive experience with a modern general scripting language such as Python or Groovy; strongly typed object-oriented languages such as Java or C#; experience with relational databases such as Oracle or Postgres. Strong familiarity with source control, unit testing, in-code documentation and automated build environments. Superior communication skills are essential to effectively interact in a highly diverse cross-discipline environment with non-computer scientists such as lab technicians, biologists, geneticists and statisticians. Ability to work well in a team is crucial; should be open to pair-programming and/or code-reviews
- Experience dealing with production issues including interacting with primary users, providing production support. Ability to understand, debug, maintain, and/or refactor legacy code. Experience with Java Servlets, JSPs, HTML, and JavaScript
- Knowledge of object-oriented JS frameworks like AngularJS. Experience with build tools like Ant or Gradle. Experience with web UI frameworks, Web services, and RESTful APIs
- Office environment, travel if needed, max 10%
- Adaptive is not currently sponsoring candidates requiring work authorization support for this position
Benefits
- Equity grant
- Bonus eligible
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