Full Stack Software Engineer, LIMS

Company: Synthego Corporation
Location: Redwood City
Posted on: February 13, 2021

Job Description:

Synthego is transforming scientists into designers with the first fully automated molecular biology lab. Lab automation is no cakewalk, though. Any given order moves through dozens of instruments, and our factory can manage throughput in the thousands. To orchestrate the chaos, our Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) sits as manager of all scientists and instruments. LIMS both juggles the task of coordinating all factory systems and analyzing the resulting instrument data generated. -- Synthego moves fast. New technologies, instruments, workflows, and optimizations are constantly introduced onto the factory floor, fueling our ever-growing pursuit of cutting-edge products. Consequently, our LIMS team must also move fast. As Synthego's brain, LIMS must properly model, track, and illuminate everything that happens in our factory, empowering production to maintain their high level of operational excellence. What You'll Do

• Build features on our web applications to improve quality, efficiency and automation for Synthego's production laboratories
• Collaborate with engineers and scientists across the organization to define, design and ship new features
• Build and test clean, scalable code that solves problems for today and tomorrow About You
  • BS in CS/EE and 2+ years industry engineering experience
  • Experience working in Django or other Python web-development frameworks
  • Strong desire to work in a fast-paced, collaborative start-up environmentEager to learn, independent and self-motivated Nice to Haves
    • Previous experience in the Biotech or Factory Systems domain
    • Experience working with React, Redux, gRPC
    • Experience working with computational biology tools
    • Prior life sciences experience and knowledge are not required, but willingness to learn and engage with scientists and stakeholders is expected ABOUT SYNTHEGO Synthego's vision is to turn biology into an information science, with the ultimate goal of dramatically extending the healthy human lifespan. Synthego builds advanced bioinformatics and automated hardware platforms to create next-generation molecular biology tools, starting with full-stack genome engineering. These world-class tools accelerate basic scientific discovery, critical disease cures and novel synthetic biology applications to improve and prolong life.

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