About the position
By joining Bio-Techne, you'll join a company with a powerful and positive purpose of enabling cutting-edge research in Life Sciences and Clinical Diagnostics. Bio-Techne, and all of its brands, provides tools for researchers to further treat and prevent disease worldwide. Asuragen, a Bio-Techne brand, is a global molecular diagnostics product and solutions company. We use our unique combination of proprietary chemistry and bioinformatics to develop products that address unmet needs for both clinical research and diagnostic laboratories. Our product portfolio is comprised of reagent kits and software for genetics and oncology applications. As a Software Engineer, you will contribute to the advancement of commercial software solutions within our rapidly growing Bioinformatics and Software Engineering group in the Bio-Techne Diagnostics Division. Leveraging a strong engineering background and expertise in regulated software development, you will design and deliver high-quality, web-based analysis software for genetics and oncology data processing, reporting, and visualization needs. Working collaboratively and cross-functionally with other software developers, engineers, and scientists, you will play a critical role in designing, developing, and maintaining regulated software solutions, proprietary algorithms for high-efficiency automated data processing, and high-quality software for internal and external customers.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the development of diagnostic assay kits that advance molecular diagnostics research worldwide and empower patients and healthcare providers with better answers.
- Contribute to functional software design, development, testing, and documentation of commercial software applications that directly meet Asuragen's research and clinical market needs.
- Contribute to on-going support and maintenance of new products as they move on to the market by responding to technical investigations, introducing new features and functionality, upgrading tools and frameworks, and proactively identifying bugs and other risks.
- Effectively collaborate with Quality Assurance, Regulatory Affairs, and Manufacturing to ensure compliance with internal and external requirements for regulated software.
- Actively participate in an Agile software development process including design, planning, estimation, execution, and verification testing activities.
- Identify and implement technical and functional improvements to the software engineering toolset and processes, including introducing or improving the use of common frameworks, tools, and software engineering best practices.
- Effectively communicate technical topics and project outcomes both internally and externally.
Requirements
- Master's degree with 2+ years of industry experience in Computer Science, Bioinformatics, or a related field, or a Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of industry experience.
- Expert working knowledge of C# or JavaScript; experience with Python preferred.
- Extensive experience writing unit and integration tests and understanding of test-driven design.
- Experience developing and testing software in Unix/Linux preferred.
- Experience with cloud-native software development highly desired.
- Extensive experience with commercial software development tools including professional IDEs (Visual Studio, VS Code, PyCharm), version control with Git, and either Jira or Azure DevOps.
- Experience developing and deploying regulated software applications preferred.
- Experience developing secure software aligned with current cybersecurity best practices.
- Demonstrated ability and enthusiasm for working in a multi-disciplinary team setting.
- Superb written and verbal communication skills including presenting to audiences with diverse backgrounds.
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Medical, dental, vision, life, short-term disability, long-term disability, pet, and legal and ID shield insurance benefits starting on day one.
- 401(k) plan with company matching.
- Employee bonus plan.
- Tuition reimbursement plan.
- Employee resource groups, volunteer paid time off, employee events, and charity drives.
- Accrued leave policy with paid holidays, paid time off, and paid parental leave.
- Mentorship, promotional opportunities, training and development, internship programs.
