Passionate about precision medicine and advancing the healthcare industry?
Recent advancements in technology have finally made it possible for AI to impact clinical care in a meaningful way. Tempus' proprietary platform connects an entire ecosystem of real-world evidence to deliver real-time, actionable insights to physicians, providing critical information about the right treatments for the right patients, at the right time.
At Tempus, software and AI products are owned and developed by small, autonomous teams composed of engineers, designers, scientists, and product managers. Teams set the goals, build the software, deploy the code, and contribute to a growing software platform that drives research and delivers advanced diagnostic and treatment improvements for our clinical partners and their patients.
As a Software Engineer on the Transforms Platform team at Tempus, you’ll be on the front lines of our battle to develop and deliver cutting-edge, modern technology into the hands of clinicians. The Transforms platform is the culmination of years of experience helping bioinformatics scientists, data scientists, and ML developers build their algorithms, pipelines, and models and deliver them in production at scale. Transforms enable these users to rapidly develop and easily operate their solutions in a highly regulated, secure, and scalable production environment by handling technical architecture, cloud infrastructure, security, and compliance so they can stay focused on their areas of expertise and delivering value for Tempus customers and patients.
We are seeking a motivated and talented Software Engineer to join our team and assist in the development and maintenance of the core components of our platform. Transforms are critical to our mission of delivering high-quality, scalable, and efficient solutions to our internal users and external customers. By joining our team, you will contribute to the innovation and optimization of our data processing capabilities, ensuring that we continue to meet the evolving needs of our business and customers. Your work will directly impact our ability to provide cutting-edge AI solutions that empower clinicians to provide cutting edge care to patients that helps them live longer, healthier lives.
Responsibilities:
- Assist in developing and maintaining a core platform for scientists and engineers to develop, deploy, and operate their algorithms and models.
- Help the team deliver new Transforms platform features and enhancements to expand capabilities, connect to new data sources, increase scalability, and improve user experience.
- Write backend web services in TypeScript under the guidance of senior engineers.
- Design and implement software solutions according to requirements and specifications provided by product managers and senior engineers.
- Follow best practices for software engineering, code quality, testing, and documentation established by the team.
- Participate in code reviews, providing and receiving constructive feedback.
- Support other engineering, science, and ML teams developing and operating their Transform-based solutions. You will leverage your expertise as a software engineer and knowledge of the Transforms platform to answer user questions and troubleshoot development or production issues.
- Assist teams migrating their Transforms to new versions of the platform.
- Monitor systems to ensure reliability and performance, responding proactively to issues.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent industry experience.
- 1-3 years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on backend web services.
- Experience in writing backend web services in statically-typed programming languages such as TypeScript, Java, Rust, or Go.
- Openness to working primarily in a TypeScript and Node.js programming environment.
- Understanding of data structures, algorithms, and software design principles.
- Familiarity with relational database design and application-level operations, including schema migrations. Experience with PostgreSQL is preferred.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Familiarity with container orchestration and storage on public cloud platforms (GCP, AWS), such as Kubernetes (GKE, AWS EKS), AWS ECS, and AWS Fargate.
- Experience with cloud technologies such as:
- Google: Batch, Pub/Sub, GCS, Cloud SQL, BigQuery
- AWS: S3, OpenSearch, RDS
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
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