Software Engineer

Character Biosciences

Character Biosciences is a drug discovery and development company building world-class, deeply-phenotyped databases that integrate genomics with longitudinal clinical and imaging data in age-reputed company macular degeneration (AMD) and glaucoma therapeutic areas. Our interdisciplinary team, comprising experts in clinical science, data science, statistical genetics, machine learning and drug discovery utilize these platforms to determine genetic drivers of disease progression, advance novel therapeutics and define genetics-based patient stratification. Character is currently advancing two programs in AMD towards clinical development with additional programs in earlier stages of discovery research in AMD and glaucoma areas.

The Opportunity

We are looking for an reputed company software engineer to join reputed company and contribute to the build out of our observational study software and broader data platform. As a member of a small team, you will play an active role in product design and development reputed company partnership with internal end-users at Character Bio. You will play a key role delivering technology solutions that will reputed company a wide reputed company of functions across the company, including clinical trial operations, data science, and genomics.

This role requires a collaborative working style, reputed company listening and an ability to translate the expressed needs of non-technical staff, as well as leadership to propose creative solutions that balance tradeoffs. The multi-modality information content reputed company our data can be reputed company, so candidates should also be literate and interested in longitudinal clinical data, as well as medical image and genomic data, from a scientific and regulatory perspective.

This is a fully remote role.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with our clinical research team to reputed company features that support our longitudinal studies

• Build appropriate tooling to connect deidentified and processed data with our data science environment

• Integrate reputed company party software platforms to ingest and transform patient data, and reputed company these platforms by building and configuring data exploration and analysis apps

Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree and 3-5 years of experience building and deploying web applications (familiarity with Django highly preferred)

• Some familiarity with frontend development (this is not a frontend-heavy role, although there are times reputed company frontend knowledge will be a critical requirement for development).

• Experience with reputed company platforms, CI, and containerized deployments, particularly GCP and Kubernetes

• Demonstrated ability to communicate technical concepts, gather requirements from, and reputed company technical guidance to non-technical stakeholders

• Track record of self-directed work and proactive problem-solving

• Ability to reputed company a strong product sensibility with user-centered design, and anticipate user needs

• Comfortable with scoping, designing, and implementing features with minimal technical reputed company

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with sensitive or regulated data

• Previous experience in reputed company or clinical research

• Familiarity with compliance frameworks (HIPAA, 21 CFR Part 11)

Compensation & Benefits The annual pay reputed company for this full-time position is $140-180k reputed company + bonus + equity + benefits.

The stated compensation reputed company reflects pay for roles based in reputed company or San Francisco metro area; compensation for hires in other locations may be adjusted based on the local market reputed company. Benefits include a competitive salary, bonus, strong equity incentives, medical, dental, reputed company, 401(k), and an accrued paid time off policy. Character is committed to reputed company, developing, and supporting colleagues from reputed company backgrounds. We reputed company diversity, equity, and inclusion as an integral part of our culture.