Engineer II, Software

Help us change lives

At Exact Sciences, we’re helping change how the world prevents, detects and guides treatment for cancer. We give patients and clinicians the clarity needed to make confident decisions when they matter most. Join our team to find a purpose-driven career, an inclusive culture, and robust benefits to support your life while you’re working to help others.

Position Overview

At Exact Sciences, we are cancer fighters. We are united by our mission to change lives by providing earlier, smarter answers. Through advances in cancer detection and treatment guidance, we will help eradicate the disease and the suffering it causes.

As an Engineer II, you will have a basic understanding of all software components for Exact Sciences. This role will design, develop, test, and maintain software components of moderate complexity with general instruction from senior engineers and drive tasks to completion. This role will leverage well-developed professional and technical expertise to work collaboratively on cross-functional agile teams to deliver high quality software.

Working in our Software Engineering teams, you will be responsible for developing, enhancing, and sustaining software systems in a cross-functional team environment through adherence to established design control processes and good engineering practices. You will design and create engineering specifications for building software programs based on a broad knowledge of information systems and determine what development methodology to use after documenting software requirements.

Essential Duties

• Demonstrate basic theories, skills, and practices to accomplish work assignments of low to medium complexity.
• Build defined features, investigate, and fix bugs, and write tests related to software components of moderate complexity with limited instructions for new projects and work provided by leadership.
• Initiate independent software design with guidance from others. Participate in reviewing design alternatives, problems, and solutions.
• Communicate status updates on individual project-based assignments to the project team.
• Provide professional advice on decisions or actions that may impact the outcome of a task or workflow of the team/work group.
• Build productive internal collaborative partnerships with peers, SMEs, and decision-makers.
• Support and comply with the company’s Quality Management System policies and procedures.
• Ability to work nights and/or weekends, as needed.
• Uphold company mission and values through accountability, innovation, integrity, quality, and teamwork.
• Maintain regular and reliable attendance.
• Ability to act with an inclusion mindset and model these behaviors for the organization.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, or Engineering; or High School Diploma/General Education Degree and 4 years of relevant experience as outlined in the essential duties in lieu of Bachelor’s Degree.
• Experience developing software with object-oriented code.
• RESTful web services, Relational Databases (Postgres, SQL Server), and ORM technologies (JPA2, Hibernate, Entities Framework).
• Designing and developing apps that access and or utilize cloud-based frameworks (e.g., Azure, Amazon AWS Services/SDKs, etc.).
• Agile development tools; including, but not limited to, JIRA, Confluence repository.
• Demonstrated ability to perform the essential duties of the position with or without accommodation.
• Authorization to work in the United States without sponsorship.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with container orchestration, preferably EKS.
• Familiarity with AWS services, including S3, DynamoDB, RDBMS, Secrets Manager, Lambdas.
• Familiarity with WDLs, including but not limited to Argo, Nextflow, etc.
• Experience with medical device software and associated design controls.
• Next Generation Sequencing data analysis tools and workflows.
• Experience reading and writing object-oriented languages, such as Python, Java, Google Web Toolkit, .NET, or C++.

Salary Range:

$93,000.00 - $149,000.00

The annual base salary shown is for this position located in US - CA - San Diego on a full-time basis. In addition, this position is bonus eligible, and is eligible to receive company stock upon hire as well as annually.

Exact Sciences is proud to offer an employee experience that includes paid time off (including days for vacation, holidays, volunteering, and personal time), paid leave for parents and caregivers, a retirement savings plan, wellness support, and health benefits including medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage.

Our success relies on the experiences and perspectives of a diverse team, and Exact Sciences fosters a culture where all employees can develop personally and professionally with a sense of respect and belonging. If you require an accommodation, please contact us here.

We are an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, creed, disability, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, and any other status protected by applicable local, state, or federal law.

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