Bioinformatics Engineer
Mountain View, CA, United States
About FlowDeploy FlowDeploy builds dev tools for bioinformatics, and we're looking for a bioinformatics engineer. Our core product is a platform to run bioinformatics pipelines and manage data.
We're a very small team, and we plan to stay small until we have strong product-market fit. We're funded by Y Combinator and other notable investors, FlowDeploy is generating revenue, and we can keep going for years without raising additional funding.
What we value Working autonomously to maximize impact rather than following orders. I think a former or future founder would thrive in this environment.
Building and running quick experiments, rather than building huge features without user feedback.
Comfortability with transparency and openness, even if it might help potential competitors in the short term.
What you might work on Bioinformatics engineering Improving our integration with bioinformatics pipelining languages like Nextflow and Snakemake.
Infrastructure for pipeline execution. This is mostly executed through AWS Batch.
Supporting our customers and their bioinformatics pipelines.
Typical software engineering Our core API. This is currently written with Express/Node with a Postgres database.
Improving our data management. Most data is stored in S3, with metadata in a Postgres database.
The React app for launching, monitoring, and sharing bioinformatics pipelines and data.
Requirements You have experience with infrastructure for bioinformatics pipelines.
You have started a project from scratch. That could be a project you're working on now, a company you founded, or a side project that you built.
You have strong written communication skills.
You know how to navigate the tension between "moving fast and breaking things" and working towards validated infrastructure.
Nice to have You have full-stack experience with relevant tech. For this product, that's Python or similar, React or similar, AWS or similar, and Node.js/Express + Postgres or similar.
You have worked in both academia and industry.
Compensation Cash: around $76k-112k. Equity: 0.75%-1%.
We increase compensation for more experience, since it's reasonable to expect this correlates with an increase in skill.
We pay for 100% of health insurance, which includes location-specific plans from Aetna, BlueCross BlueShield, and Kaiser Permanente. We also offer a mix of other funded (e.g. dental, vision, disability) and available (e.g. hospital, accident) insurance.
If you're working in-person: we have a great office space with free snacks, drinks, and lunch.
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