Senior Full-Stack Engineer

POSITION OVERVIEW

We are seeking a Senior Full-Stack Engineer to join our Data Engineering team and play a pivotal role in designing, developing, and deploying a new generation of microservices. This is a critical position for a developer who thrives on solving complex challenges and wants to have a significant impact on our technical direction. You will be instrumental in migrating our systems to a more modern, scalable architecture, including a shift toward Kubernetes and a refined DevOps pipeline. A background in software development, genetics, and systems analysis will provide a strong basis for success.

ACCOUNTABILITIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Architecture & Development: Architect, design, and implement new microservices using Python and FastAPI. You will be a key contributor to our new frontends, building applications with and Tailwind CSS.
• Infrastructure & DevOps: Play a central role in our migration to a Kubernetes environment. You will work with Docker to refine our CI/CD pipelines.
• Data & Workflow: Design and maintain robust data pipelines and workflows. Hands-on experience with an orchestrator like Airflow, Dagster, Prefect or other workflow orchestrator is a core requirement, as you will be working with and improving our existing systems which are built in house to work similar to Airflow.
• Database Management: Own the design and optimization of our PostgreSQL database schemas and queries to ensure high performance and scalability.
• Cloud Services: Utilize and optimize a variety of AWS services, with a focus on data management in Amazon S3.
• Technical Leadership: Serve as a technical leader, mentoring junior developers, conducting thorough code reviews, and championing best practices in software design, security, and performance.
• Requirements Gathering: Develops software solutions by studying information needs; conferring with users; studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes; investigating problem areas; following the software development lifecycle.
• Algorithm design, development, and optimization for analytical systems.
• Improves operations; recommends changes in policies and procedures.
• Updates job knowledge by studying state-of-the-art development tools, programming techniques, and computing/scientific equipment.
• Protects operations by keeping information confidential and works to improve company security and privacy.
• Provides information by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing business and technology issues.

POSITION REQUIREMENTS

• Senior-Level Experience: You have a demonstrated 5+ years of designing and building complex, scalable software systems from the ground up. Along with using object-oriented design principles, and have spent time working in a Linux environment to develop and deploy software. Experience following agile, scrum, and/or waterfall methodologies.
• Backend Expertise: Deep, hands-on experience with Python (at least 5 years experience) and building APIs, with a strong preference for FastAPI.
• Frontend Proficiency: Experience building modern, responsive user interfaces with and Tailwind CSS.
• Microservices: A solid understanding of microservices architecture and its principles.
• Containerization: Mastery of Docker and a firm grasp of container orchestration concepts, with a strong interest in Kubernetes.
• DevOps & Infrastructure: Experience with CI/CD tools, particularly Jenkins
• Database: Advanced knowledge of PostgreSQL, including data modeling and query optimization.
• Workflow Orchestration: Experience with at least one major workflow orchestrator (Airflow, Dagster, or Prefect).
• Cloud: Practical experience using AWS services, specifically S3.
• Source Control: Expertise with Git for version control.
• Problem-solving skills - 4 years or more experience in problem-solving by analyzing, debugging, and troubleshooting applications and integration components. Familiar with using software debuggers for Python and C/C++
• Communication Skills - Strong communication skills to allow requirements gathering, coordination of application implementation, application and integration testing all within and with other teams.

OTHER COMPENTICES AND TECHNOLGY FAMILARITY

• Messaging (RabbitMQ or equivalent message queue system) 
• Relational databases such as MS SQL Server, and MySQL
• NoSQL Database technologies, for example, AWS DynamoDB, Mongo
• Hashicorp tools (Nomad, Consul, Terraform, Vault)
• Linux Shell Scripting
• HTTP, Web API, CSS, and Javascript
• Python Django, Python Flask
• Other cloud technologies such as Oracle OCI
• Knowledge of distributed systems, big data technologies, or machine learning.
• Problem Solving, Teamwork, Analyzing Data, General Programming Skills, Software Design, Software Debugging, Software Documentation, Software Development Process, Agile SCRUM.
• Demonstrate strong attention to detail and accuracy.
• Understanding genetics, big data, data science, genealogy, AI and/or machine learning is highly desirable.

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