Senior Full Stack Software Engineer - Bioinformatics

About the role

Illumina is looking for a highly motivated Full Stack Software Engineer to join its Bioinformatics organization. The team builds software that helps scientists organize, analyze and interpret complex biological data from Illumina's multi-omics technologies, combining interactive web applications, large scientific datasets and long-running computational analyses. Engineers work across new product experiences and established codebases, improving existing systems safely and incrementally.

Key responsibilities

• Independently deliver full-stack features across user interfaces, backend services, databases and external integrations.
• Build workflows for ingesting, organizing, transforming, analyzing and presenting scientific data.
• Create highly interactive visual experiences for exploring and manipulating large, complex datasets.
• Extend and modernize established applications while improving maintainability, performance, reliability and test coverage.
• Collaborate with scientists, product partners, designers and engineers through design reviews, code reviews and iterative delivery.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Five or more years of professional software development experience.
• Demonstrated success delivering high-quality software using Scrum, Kanban or similar collaborative development practices.

Required skills

• Experience developing data-intensive web applications with complex, interactive user interfaces.
• TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML and CSS, using Angular, React or a comparable framework.
• Java or Kotlin with Spring Boot or a similar JVM framework.
• REST APIs, service integrations, asynchronous processing, SQL and relational databases such as PostgreSQL.
• Cloud and container technologies, automated testing, CI/CD, and responsible use of AI-assisted development tools.
• Preferred: open-source visualization frameworks, AWS, object storage, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, and experience with genomics or bioinformatics software.