Job description
Company Description
Guardant Health is a leading precision oncology company focused on helping conquer cancer globally through use of its proprietary tests, vast data sets and advanced analytics. The Guardant Health oncology platform leverages capabilities to drive commercial adoption, improve patient clinical outcomes and lower healthcare costs across all stages of the cancer care continuum. Guardant Health has commercially launched Guardant360®, Guardant360 CDx, Guardant360 TissueNext™, Guardant360 Response™, and GuardantOMNI® tests for advanced stage cancer patients, and Guardant Reveal™ for early-stage cancer patients. The Guardant Health screening portfolio, including the Shield™ test, aims to address the needs of individuals eligible for cancer screening.
Job Description
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Lead a team to design, build, and maintain efficient and scalable software services and applications that deliver value to our customers
- Mentor and coach a team of software engineers at various experience levels
- Act as a resource for software developers on policies, procedures and technical issues
- Develop close relationships and work with business and technical leads, architects, and product owners, based in the US, to ensure the team’s work is aligned with business goals and enterprise-level architectural standards, and that the solution delivered is of the highest quality
- Assess current software development practices to identify and implement process and software improvements
- Use cutting-edge technologies to promote new ways of solving problems
- Collaborate with our DevOps team to design, develop, and maintain CI processes for regular and efficient releases
- Collaborate on architecture and design of new software applications and enhancements of existing applications
- Serve as an expert technical resource for software architecture and development
- Perform other related duties as assigned
Leadership Qualifications
- 3 years’ experience managing software development teams in a distributed and global setup, including leadership of both internal and outsourced/offshore development teams
- 3+ Experience with multi-modal collaboration (in-office, hybrid and remote), and collaboration across time zones
- 5+ years of experience planning and delivering software projects within and across teams, including resource allocation and managing cross-functional dependencies. Ability to build clear and realistic project delivery plans
- Superb verbal and written communication skills. Capacity to convey technical considerations to non-technical audiences, understand business drivers and draw impacts for the technical teams, and utilize appropriate tools for each mode of communication.
- Ability to manage multiple small engineering teams across multiple projects and deliverables.
- Experience within the healthcare or life sciences sector, familiar with regulatory environment
Qualifications
- 10+ years of software development
- 8+ years of programming experience in Java
- 5+ years of experience with HTML/CSS/JavaScript
- 5+ years of experience developing or using facing RESTful APIs
- Expertise in data modeling and developing schemas (relational databases, XML/JSON)
- Experience in developing LIMS Applications, such as LabVantage
- Experience with Amazon Web Services or similar cloud architectures
- Experience working in a fast-paced environment leveraging an agile development framework
- Good understanding of Test Automation and Continuous Integration
- B.S. or higher degree in computer science, engineering, or related areas
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