Staff/Senior Software Engineer - Platform

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Background

Before new medical treatments can be administered to the public, they must demonstrate safety and efficacy in a clinical trial. These trials protect consumers from ineffective and dangerous products, but the clinical trial process also presents a tremendous bottleneck in delivering life-saving treatments to patients. A typical trial involves coordinating between numerous parties and data formats to gather, store, analyse, and audit clinical data. Mistakes and delays are common, and fewer than 10% of trials finish on time.

At TrialSpark, we are looking for talented software engineers to help us reimagine the clinical trial process from first principles and build the backbone for our technology platform.

Description

This is a foundational software engineering role at TrialSpark. You will build core infrastructure to help our engineering and data teams scale, iterate, test, and release in a timely way. Moreover, there is a lot of greenfield work to be done and lots of potential for impact.

You will be actively partnering with our Product, Data, and Operational teams to grow your domain expertise and build data infrastructure to enable data-driven decision making for TrialSpark. Your ability to understand and navigate the complexities of healthcare data and clinical trials will be essential to your success and the success of TrialSpark.

Responsibilities

  • Build, maintain, and evolve our data pipeline and overall data architecture to accommodate a growing amount of data and scale our patient database
  • Implement reliable data integrations from a variety of sources and develop data quality metrics to assess the trustability of these sources
  • Create tools to continuously monitor, test, and optimize our pipeline to ensure timely delivery and high quality
  • Work with operational partners and product management to connect business and product needs, particularly for high quality data
  • Partner with our Data team to scale our data warehouse for high-performance ad hoc querying
  • Develop infrastructure, frameworks, APIs, and libraries to support and enable our engineering and data teams.
  • Own the monitoring, logging, alerting, tracing, and deployment for the systems you build
  • Inform major design, architecture, and capacity planning decisions for the engineering team by applying a seasoned systems perspective.
  • Help enforce best practices and promote testability and maintainability throughout our systems and codebase.
  • If it can be automated, you will automate it.

Qualifications

  • Minimum 5+ years of software development preferably in a Tech Lead role
  • 2+ years in a data heavy engineering role 
  • Fluency in SQL and at least one programming language (Python preferred) 
  • Strong knowledge of data modeling, pipeline scheduling and flows (e.g. Airflow), database design and architecture, ETL (e.g. dbt), OLAP
  • Experience with performance tuning row-based (PostgreSQL) and columnar (e.g. Redshift) data stores
  • Comfortable with Linux, Docker, and cloud technologies (AWS)
  • Excellent problem solving and debugging skills.
  • Exceptional communication skills with the ability to convey complicated systems to both technical and non-technical audiences
  • B.S. in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
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Technology we use

  • Engineering
  • Product
  • People Operations
    • JavascriptLanguages
    • PythonLanguages
    • ReactLibraries
    • ReduxLibraries
    • FlaskFrameworks
    • PostgreSQLDatabases
    • LookerAnalytics
    • FigmaDesign
    • MiroDesign
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    • Google DocsManagement
    • JIRAManagement
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    • ZoomCollaboration

Location

Our office is located in Manhattan, near the Empire State Building. The area is lively and has great food and transportation options!

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What’s the vibe like in the office?

The space is very open which makes it easy to collaborate and engage with different teams across the organization. People are very welcoming, supportive, and friendly. There is always a variety of different food and drinks available in the kitchen, in addition to foods that co-workers bring in for everyone to taste!

Joseph Frappaolo

IT Support Technician

What projects are you most excited about?

The project that excites me most is our new hire onboarding program because of the impact it will have on our company. Though we have a robust onboarding program in place already, we have the opportunity to think creatively about how to make the experience even better for our new hires, from the moment they accept our offer.

Erin Siegel

Senior People Operations Manager

How has your career grown since starting at the company?

I started working at Formation Bio in July of 2018. I joined the company as a Clinical Research Coordinator and was allowed to grow and adapt into new roles as the company's business model shifted. I transitioned into working as a Clinical Trial Associate after a couple of years, and now have over a year of experience as a Clinical Project Manager!

Gurpreet Singh

Clinical Project Manager

How has your career grown since starting at the company?

Formation Bio has given me the opportunity to take ownership over big projects and work streams, allowing me to have an impact on key functional business areas.

Maya Dongier

Senior Accounting Manager

What are Formation Bio Perks + Benefits

Formation Bio Benefits Overview

Formation Bio is nothing without its employees, so they are well taken care of! We offer comprehensive benefits that span from insurance to 401ks, with added perks like a pet-friendly office. Come meet our office dog, Rosie!

Culture
Open door policy
Open office floor plan
Employee resource groups
Hybrid work model
Flexible work schedule
Diversity
Mandated unconscious bias training
Diversity employee resource groups
Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Health insurance
Life insurance
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
Company equity
Pay transparency
Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits
Generous parental leave
Vacation & Time Off Benefits
Unlimited vacation policy
Paid holidays
Paid sick days
Office Perks
Company-sponsored outings
Yearly retreat and holiday party, regular team events and outings!
Free snacks and drinks
Company-sponsored happy hours
Fitness stipend
Home-office stipend for remote employees
Mother's room
Professional Development Benefits
Job training & conferences
Lunch and learns
Promote from within
Continuing education stipend
Virtual coaching services

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