Full-Stack Web Developer, Genedata Selector, CH-Basel

The Position

Our solutions for sequence data management, sequence analysis, NGS data processing and analytics are operated in scientific and lab-driven environments. Our team searches a strong collaborator with team experience, who is ready to work in the bioinformatics field facing the challenges and opportunities turning solutions and concepts into shippable products.

We care as much about delivering functional and performant solutions as we do about ensuring a technically sound platform. We foster a collaborative environment through guidance and mentorship. We pride ourselves on building a supportive atmosphere where you will both learn and teach.

This full time position is based at our headquarters in Basel, Switzerland.

Key Responsibilities

• Work with an established quality-driven agile team using state of the art organizational means focused on delivering software products with regular schedules. 
• Work with React-based JavaScript frameworks including web application styling techniques for building state of the art web applications
• Shape the Java based middle-tier services providing data in efficient and elegant ways to the web clients
• Find algorithmic solutions for retrieving and manipulating large quantities of data (genome and sequence data) on the middle tier and present it for analytical assessment on the customer interface
• Maintain and extend a library of user interface components according to given specification and including automated tests and documentation

Your Profile

Essential Skills and Experiences:

• BSc, MSc, or Ph.D. in computer science, mathematics, bioinformatics, or related fields, or comparable on-the-job experience
• Qualified web developer with skills on the web-tier end user interface as well as the middle-tier service layer 
• Experience working on database-oriented, algorithmically demanding scientific applications in a three-tier architecture at the interface between biology and informatics 
• Domain expertise in JavaScript frameworks as well as Java based middle-tier architectures
• Working experience with DevOps tools and methodologies (Jira, Confluence, Subversion, Jenkins, React, Play, JPA/Hibernate, NodeJS/NPM, SQL, Scrum)
• Good written and verbal communication and presentation skills in English
• A keen interest in working in a life science related field

The Company

Genedata is an exceptional company. With over two decades of success in research informatics due to closely-knit teams of scientists, developers and business experts, Genedata has achieved steady and continuous growth since inception. As a private and majority employee-owned organization, we empower each employee to be a contributing voice in the company operations and evolution.  Our collective expertise in research informatics, combined with our open and scalable computational solutions, makes us the leading software provider in R&D informatics for biotech, pharmaceuticals, and related life sciences. We are headquartered in Basel, Switzerland and have subsidiaries in Germany, US, UK, Japan and Singapore.

About the Genedata Selector

Genedata Selector is an enterprise software platform that transforms raw sequencing data into solutions to optimize R&D and production processes for life science industries.  Automated and intuitive software combined with scientific consulting and professional services provides a full solution for increasing efficiency and reducing costs in cell line design and selection, microbial contamination detection, and strain, germplasm, and breeding optimization.

Are You Interested?

If you are ready to contribute to the continued success of a global interdisciplinary team, helping customers develop safe, next-generation products and therapies, please submit us your CV together with your motivation letter.

Genedata is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Genedata prefers CVs and resumes directly from candidates. Personnel recruitment agencies need not respond.