Full Stack Software Engineer

Key Skills

.NET, Aartificial intelligence, AngularJS, CSS3, Data science techniques, Effective communication skills, HTML, Java Programming, JavaScript, JQuery, MongoDB, MySQL, Oracle, Presentation skills, Python Programming, React.js, Ruby on Rails, SQL Server, UI design, UX design

Job Description

The role

As a PLS Software Engineer, you will be a member of our new global AI and data intelligence team. This team’s goal is to build state of the art data and AI technology with strong research fundamentals for our life sciences investment arm. Utilizing your expertise in software engineering, you will build technical and scientific products and tools that provide intelligence and predictions from varied and growing datasets. This is a great opportunity to work on a range of AI powered projects in a growing team with exposure to the best life science companies today.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the Investment and Research teams to deeply understand the requirements and translate those to powerful front-end applications for our investment team
• Develop applications on cloud-based services, with a special emphasis on user friendly and visually compelling interfaces
• Develop front end applications for AI models and other types of analytics using multiple data sets, utilizing leading edge technologies and frameworks
• Work closely with data scientists, computational biologists, and subject matter experts to understand and translate business requirements into technical solutions
• Be a technical expert to help internal customers & teams to consume standard cloud and UI services, and be a core member of the team and key contributor and subject matter expert
• Participate and assist in setting the long-term direction, roadmaps and standards for technical solutions, ensuring they align to the overall enterprise architecture
• Participate in technology evaluation and reengineering teams to support strategy-definition and continuous process improvement activities
• Help implement the technology direction, vision, and strategy to enable technology and applications adoption
• Manage the complete software development process from conception to deployment
• Manage the end-to-end life cycle for the production of software and applications
• Overseeing and guiding the analyzing, writing, building, and deployment of software
• Overseeing automated testing and providing feedback to management during the development process

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or similar
• 5+ years of relevant Full Stack Engineering experience
• Front-end technology: Expertise in front-end technologies, including JavaScript, CSS3 and HTML5 and third-party libraries such as React Js, Angular, jQuery and LESS
• Development languages: Knowledge of server-side programming languages including Net, Java, Ruby and Python
• Database and cache: Familiarity with DBMS technology, including SQLServer, Oracle, MongoDB and MySQL and caching mechanisms such as Redis, Memcached and Varnish
• Basic design ability: Including knowledge of UI/UX and basic prototype design
• Server: Experience working with Nginx or Apache servers with a solid background in Linux
• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Able to work with an international team with demonstrated ability to implement new ideas in a research environment and to drive projects collaboratively
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Fluency in English
• US Work Visa-does not require employer sponsorship now or in the future
• Hybrid work schedule: Able to be in San Francisco office, in-person at least 3 days per week (M/W/Th), option to work from home 2 days per week
• Salary Range $151,000-$185,000 plus 20% target performance bonus
• Generous benefits package (Healthcare 100% paid, free lunch, reimbursements for: cell phone, home wifi, gym, commute)