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Base Salary
$110k - $160k/yr
Responsibilities
- Analyze and design complex technical solutions for Tempus’ diagnostics initiatives.
- Architect, implement, and scale full-stack applications, APIs, distributed microservices, and user-facing features.
- Build and maintain bioinformatics workflow orchestration pipelines for high-throughput genomic data analysis.
- Manage, monitor, and optimize workflow executions through Seqera Platform across cloud environments.
- Develop high-quality TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Node.js, NestJS, and React code.
- Optimize PostgreSQL queries, indexing, performance, and Redis caching for high-throughput systems.
- Orchestrate applications and infrastructure on GCP, including cloud-based pipeline compute backends and CI/CD pipelines.
- Integrate GenAI technologies, APIs, autonomous agents, and AI-assisted development workflows into production systems.
- Make high-impact architectural decisions, drive cross-team technical initiatives, resolve complex engineering challenges, and mentor emerging talent.
Requirements
- 5+ years of advanced TypeScript, JavaScript, and Python development experience.
- Extensive experience architecting and leading development with Node.js and NestJS.
- Experience designing and implementing complex React component systems.
- Proven experience building, scaling, and maintaining bioinformatics orchestration pipelines using workflow frameworks such as Nextflow.
- Hands-on experience managing and optimizing Nextflow workflows through Seqera Platform, formerly Nextflow Tower.
- Experience using GenAI coding tools and autonomous agents such as Copilot, Cursor, and LLM APIs.
- Experience integrating APIs and GenAI technologies into production applications.
- Advanced PostgreSQL skills, including query optimization, indexing strategies, and performance tuning.
- Expertise implementing Redis caching solutions for high-throughput systems.
- Experience designing distributed microservice architectures that interface with data-intensive bioinformatics workflows.
- Significant experience orchestrating infrastructure and applications on GCP, including CI/CD and cloud-based compute backends.
- Mastery of enterprise-level design patterns and large-scale, mission-critical systems.
- 7+ years of software development experience with a record of technical leadership.
- Ability to balance business needs, data infrastructure constraints, and scientific computing requirements.
- Experience collaborating across software engineering and computational biology or bioinformatics teams.
- Experience delivering complex projects, presenting technical solutions, and driving cross-team technical initiatives.
- Preferred experience with Nextflow DSL2 custom modules and subworkflows, GCP Batch, Life Sciences API, AWS Batch, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Docker, Kubernetes, biotech, genomics, or precision medicine.
Benefits
- Tempus offers a full range of benefits, which may include incentive compensation, restricted stock units, medical benefits, and other benefits depending on the position.
Tech Stack
DockerElasticsearchGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaScriptKubernetesNestJSNode.jsPostgreSQLPythonReactRedisTypeScript
Categories
Data EngineeringFull Stack
About Tempus
Tempus builds AI-enabled precision medicine tools and genomic tests used by physicians and health systems, with a core focus on oncology. It sells diagnostics, clinical decision-support software, and real‑world data services to providers and biopharma for drug discovery and trials. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Chicago, Tempus is a public company listed on Nasdaq.