Staff Software Engineer

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will lead the design, development, and maintenance of the LIMS application and related software.  You will be one of the primary technical leads of the Software Engineering group, working to provide design solutions and general team leadership to other engineers and Technical Product Managers.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Work closely with stakeholders and users to define requirements

Translate requirements into reliable and extensible operations-friendly applications in Java

Work with an engineering team to make key design and technical implementation decisions

Have a holistic view of processes and systems involved in taking patient samples from order to result in a multi-product clinical laboratory

Understand LIMS platform features and propose solutions that present trade-off analysis and make best use of the platform

Leverage off-the-shelf or existing functionality whenever possible so development resources can be focused on unmet needs

Integrate other enterprise systems and services to create seamless business processes.

Improve development process and procedure and evangelize best practices

Develop and maintain automated tests

Provide second-tier production support

QUALIFICATIONS:

BS degree in computer science, comparable program, or equivalent.

10+ years of overall software development experience, preferably building complex data or process management applications in production

10 + years of experience with object-oriented programming in Java, preferably using open-source frameworks such as Spring Frameworks and Hibernate

10+ years of experience with web services (REST, etc), XML/JSON, and Oracle or other relational databases

10 + years of experience implementing and configuring LabVantage LIMS

Excellent communication

Commitment to diversity in engineering

NICE TO HAVE:

Experience designing, configuring, and implementing external applications and integrations with a LabVantage LIMS application

Experience designing, configuring, and implementing infrastructure and software used by the LabVantage LIMS application

Experience in configuration and customization of commercial off-the-shelf product LIMS system to support order to result workflows

Experience performing upgrades of a LabVantage LIMS system

Experience with front-end web programming, preferably with modern JavaScript frameworks (react, angular, etc.)

Healthcare IT experience

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:

Object Oriented Programming

Java Enterprise Edition

JavaScript

Relational Database and SQL Programming, prefer Oracle

REST APIs and other Web service backend technologies

CI / CD

Quality Assurance Mindset; Nice to have: familiarity with regulated environments

The pay range is listed and actual compensation packages are based on a wide array of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, years & depth of experience, certifications and specific office location. This may differ in other locations due to cost of labor considerations.

Austin, TX

$152,100—$190,100 USD