Principal Engineer, Software
Principal Engineer, Software
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$ 152000 - 242000
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Help us change lives
At Exact Sciences were helpingchange how the world prevents detects and guides treatment for cancer. We give patients and clinicians the clarity needed to make confident decisions when they matter most. Join our team to find a purpose-driven career an inclusive culture and robust benefits to support your life while youre working to help others.
Position Overview
At Exact Sciences we are cancer fighters. We are united by our mission to change lives by providing earlier smarter answers. Through advances in cancer detection and treatment guidance we will help eradicate the disease and the suffering it causes.
The Principal Engineer will serve as a subject matter expert and advisor for the team. This role will have expert knowledge of our systems and codebase and hold a leadership role in the design development and testing of the most advanced platforms. The Principal Engineer is responsible for proactively guiding and mentoring other staff members and regularly leading teams through challenging technical projects to successful outcomes. The Principal Engineer will conduct extensive research to evaluate options and understand implications and trade-offs of reliability scalability operational costs ease of adoption by organization etc. This role will routinely advise and make key decisions that impact the long-term success of Exact Sciences be accountable for platform quality and set the highest standards for personal productivity. The Principal Engineer plays a critical part in driving company objectives and achieving goals for the organization while acting as a key role in developing talent and setting standards for high performance.
Working in our Software Engineering teams you will be responsible for developing enhancing and sustaining software systems in a cross-functional team environment through adherence to established design control processes and good engineering practices. You will design and create engineering specifications for building software programs based on a broad knowledge of information systems and determine what development methodology to use after documenting software requirements.
Essential Duties
Include but are not limited to the following:
- Apply expert knowledge skills and practices to diverse programs and complex initiatives demonstrating creativity and mastery of specialized techniques processes procedures. Exercise independent judgment in methods techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.
- Troubleshoot debug and diagnose issues of high complexity for major software platforms.
- Provide guidance to engineers and technical expertise and coaching to product team.
- Design lasting platforms in collaboration with product teams on large scale business or technology project(s).
- Drive the quality of platforms and organizational practices that impact and influence the departments delivery and approach.
- Contribute interpret and communicate enterprise technical project and operational strategies taking into account company dynamics.
- Build successful internal partnerships with IT leadership peers SMEs stakeholders and decision-makers. Manage vendor and external partnerships.
- Work on projects of high complexity with multiple business units ongoing acquisition integration activity or large cross-functional program implementations.
- Exercise independent judgment in methods techniques and evaluation criteria that affect schedules operations and functional activities.
- Ability to work nights and/or weekends as needed.
- Uphold company mission and values through accountability innovation integrity quality and teamwork.
- Support and comply with the companys Quality Management System policies and procedures.
- Maintain regular and reliable attendance.
- Ability to act with an inclusion mindset and model these behaviors for the organization.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelors Degree in Data Science Computer Science Information Systems Mathematics or Engineering; or High School Diploma/General Education Degree and 12 years of relevant experience as outlined in the essential duties in lieu of Bachelors Degree.
- Expert in 1 or more object-oriented programming languages.
- RESTful web services Relational Databases (Postgres SQL Server) and ORM technologies (JPA2 Hibernate Entities Framework).
- Designing and developing apps that access and or utilize cloud-based frameworks (e.g. Azure Amazon AWS Services/SDKs etc.).
- Agile development tools; including but not limited to JIRA Confluence repository.
- Programming languages such as C C Java JavaScript Python SQL PL/SQL .NET Google Web Toolkit.
- Demonstrated ability to perform the essential duties of the position with or without accommodation.
Preferred Qualifications
- Next Generation Sequencing data analysis tools and workflows.
- Ability to code in Python at an expert level.
Salary Range:
$152000.00 - $242000.00The annual base salary shown is for this position located in US - WI - Madison on a full-time basis. In addition this position is bonus eligible and is eligible to be considered for company stock at hire and on an annual basis.
Exact Sciences is proud to offer an employee experience that includes paid time off (including days for vacation holidays volunteering and personal time) paid leave for parents and caregivers a retirement savings plan wellness support and health benefits including medical prescription drug dental and vision coverage. Learn more about our benefits.
Our success relies on the experiences and perspectives of a diverse team and Exact Sciences fosters a culture where all employees can develop personally and professionally with a sense of respect and belonging. If you require an accommodation please contact us here.
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Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
