Engineering Manager, Bioinformatics Operations
Invitae is dedicated to bringing comprehensive genetic information into mainstream medicine to improve healthcare for billions of people. Our team is driven to make a difference for the patients we serve. We are leading the transformation of the genetics industry by making genetic testing affordable and accessible for everyone to guide health decisions across all stages of life.
Invitae is looking for an Engineering Manager to join our Bioinformatics Operations Team. You will be growing, coaching, and aligning the team towards the shared vision of scaled high quality bioinformatics operations. You will lead the continuous delivery of tools to better analyze and visualize clinical genomic data, evaluate data quality, and automate bioinformatic procedures. You will work alongside software engineers, clinical geneticists, and lab scientists to further deliver on our mission to bring genetic information into mainstream medical practice.
What you’ll do:
- Recruit, hire, align, and coach a high-performing team
- Translate business requirements across the company to best-in-class experiences
- Facilitate problem-solving across teams
- Anticipate and respond to quickly changing priorities
- Recognizing production bottlenecks, investigating their causes, and facilitate lasting solutions
- Hands-on with our engineering solutions, and driving technical excellence and execution within the team
What you bring:
- Software engineering principles (eg. interfaces, separation of concerns) and development methodology (agile, CI/CD)
- 10+ years experience in full-stack web development, including frameworks (eg. Django, React)
- 5+ years experience in SQL and noSQL datastores
- 2+ years experience in DevOps (eg. Docker, Jenkins)
- 2+ years experience in performance monitoring & alerting (eg. New Relic, Pagerduty)
- 2+ years experience in NGS bioinformatics (eg. samtools, bwa, Picard, GATK, pandas)
- Experience with successfully leading teams in a results-based environment
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills across engineering teams and stakeholders
- Experience with successfully triaging and resolving production incidents
- Preferred: Experience with LIMS and working in a lab environment
- Preferred: Experience with data visualization (eg. matplotlib, plotly, D3)
At Invitae, you’ll work alongside some of the world’s experts in genetics and healthcare at the forefront of genetic medicine. Our teams thrive in our dynamic organization, which has been designed to empower them to make the biggest impact they can for our patients. We give our employees the ability to explore interests and capabilities broadly within the organization. We prize freedom with accountability and offer significant flexibility. We also provide excellent benefits and competitive compensation in a fast-growing organization.
At Invitae, we’re changing healthcare to change lives. Join us.
At Invitae, we value diversity and provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.