7 days ago
Base Salary
$110k - $160k/yr
Responsibilities
- Drive the architecture, development, and maintenance of the TransformHub compute platform for scalable, governed workload execution.
- Improve the platform’s developer experience, onboarding, workload operation, and adoption across Tempus.
- Build the synchronous streaming runtime for interactive agents alongside the existing batch execution system.
- Design, implement, and test production backend services in TypeScript that connect data sources and improve scalability and performance.
- Help teams migrate workloads from the legacy platform and adopt new TransformHub capabilities.
- Support platform users by answering questions, troubleshooting development and production issues, and removing blockers.
- Translate business requirements into technical designs with Product Managers and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Raise engineering standards through mentoring, code reviews, testing, documentation, and best practices.
- Monitor and operate production platform systems, respond proactively to issues, and participate in business-hours on-call.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent industry experience.
- At least 5 years of software engineering experience focused on platform engineering, data engineering, or backend web services.
- Strong experience building and operating production containerized workloads with Docker in batch or distributed data systems on a public cloud.
- Experience with GCP, including Cloud Batch and GKE, or equivalent services on another public cloud.
- Experience implementing security best practices for HIPAA and other sensitive data in production systems.
- Experience developing backend web services in a statically typed language such as TypeScript, Java, or Rust, with this role primarily using TypeScript and Node.js.
- Ability to translate complex business requirements into technical designs.
- Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, and software design principles.
- Familiarity with relational database design, application-level operations, and schema migrations.
- Experience monitoring and operating production platform systems, including user support or on-call duties.
- Interest in building and productionizing AI agents or in streaming APIs, request/response runtimes, and safe deployment.
- Experience building frontend enterprise applications with React is a bonus.
Benefits
- Tempus offers benefits that may include incentive compensation, restricted stock units, medical benefits, and other benefits depending on the position.
- The listed Chicago salary range is $110,000-$160,000; salary may vary by location, qualifications, and experience.
About Tempus
Tempus is a technology company advancing precision medicine through the practical application of artificial intelligence in healthcare. With one of the world’s largest libraries of multimodal data, and an operating system to make that data accessible and useful, Tempus provides AI-enabled precision medicine solutions to physicians to deliver personalized patient care and in parallel facilitates discovery, development and delivery of optimal therapeutics. The goal is for each patient to benefit from the treatment of others who came before by providing physicians with tools that learn as the company gathers more data. For more information, visit tempus.com.