Senior Software Engineer, Transforms Platform

Passionate about precision medicine and advancing the healthcare industry?

Recent advancements in underlying technology have finally made it possible for AI to impact clinical care in a meaningful way. Tempus' proprietary platform connects an entire ecosystem of real-world evidence to deliver real-time, actionable insights to physicians, providing critical information about the right treatments for the right patients, at the right time.

At Tempus, software and AI products are owned and developed by small, autonomous teams composed of engineers, designers, scientists, and product managers. Teams set the goals, build the software, deploy the code, and contribute to a growing software platform that drives research and delivers advanced diagnostic and treatment improvements for our clinical partners and their patients.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Transforms Platform team at Tempus, you’ll be on the front lines of our battle to develop and deliver cutting-edge, modern technology into the hands of clinicians. The Transforms platform is the culmination of years of experience helping bioinformatics scientists, data scientists, and ML developers build their algorithms, pipelines, and models and deliver them in production at scale. Transforms enable these users to rapidly develop and easily operate their solutions in a highly regulated, secure, and scalable production environment by handling technical architecture, cloud infrastructure, security, and compliance so they can stay focused on their areas of expertise and delivering value for Tempus customers and patients.

We are seeking a talented and experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our team and drive the development of this core component of our platform. Transforms are critical to our mission of delivering high-quality, scalable, and efficient solutions to our internal users and external customers. By joining our team, you will be a key contributor to the innovation and optimization of our data processing capabilities, ensuring that we continue to meet the evolving needs of our business and customers. Your work will directly impact our ability to provide cutting-edge AI solutions that empower clinicians to provide cutting edge care to patients that helps them live longer, healthier lives.

Responsibilities:

• Drive the development and maintenance of a core compute platform for scientists and engineers to develop, deploy, and operate their algorithms and models.
• Leverage your experience with containerization to deliver new Transforms platform features and enhancements to expand capabilities, connect to new data sources, increase scalability, and improve user experience.
• Utilize your exemplary stakeholder management skills while working closely with Product Managers and other business stakeholders to gather requirements and ensure alignment with business goals to facilitate clear communication and successful project outcomes.
• Contribute to the overall architecture and design of the Transforms Platform, ensuring it aligns with the company's strategic goals.
• Design, implement, and test production backend web services in TypeScript.
• Support other engineering, science, and ML teams developing and operating their Transform-based solutions. You will leverage your expertise as a software engineer and knowledge of the Transforms platform to answer user questions and troubleshoot development or production issues.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
• Optimize and enhance the performance of existing platform services and features.
• Develop and promote best practices for software engineering, including code quality, testing, and documentation.
• Mentor and guide junior engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
• Participate in code reviews, providing constructive feedback to peers.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues related to data processing and transformation among container-based applications.
• Take operational responsibility for platform systems in production, including on-call duties.
• Monitor systems to ensure reliability and performance, responding proactively to issues.
• Assist teams migrating their Transforms to new versions of the platform and adopting new features.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies, incorporating them into the platform as appropriate.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent industry experience.
• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on data or platform engineering, and backend web services.
• Strong experience building and running containers for production systems.
• Experience with container (we use Docker) orchestration and storage on public cloud platforms (GCP, AWS), such as Kubernetes (GKE, AWS EKS), AWS ECS, and AWS Fargate.
• Demonstrated success in translating complex business requirements into technical design, with a track record of success in application design.
• Demonstrated success in writing production backend web services in statically-typed programming languages such as TypeScript, Java, Rust, or Go.
• Openness to working primarily in a TypeScript and Node.js programming environment.
• Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, and software design principles.
• Familiarity with relational database design and application-level operations, including schema migrations. Experience with PostgreSQL is preferred.
• Experience in systems monitoring and operational responsibility for platform production systems, including internal user support and/or on-call duties.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with cloud technologies such as:
  • Google: Batch, GCS, BigTable, BigQuery, Cloud SQL
  • AWS: S3, OpenSearch, RDS
• Strong preference for experience with GCP and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.

Illinois Pay Range - $110,000 - $160,000

The expected salary range above is applicable if the role is performed from Illinois and may vary for other locations (California, Colorado, New York). Actual salary may vary based on qualifications and experience. Tempus offers a full range of benefits, which may include incentive compensation, restricted stock units, medical and other benefits depending on the position.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.