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We are a Y Combinator backed biotechnology company in NYC looking for a Lead Engineer immediately to build the world's largest and most accessible online pathology image database to facilitate collaboration between scientists and doctors and to accelerate cancer research. Our vision is to combine biology with computer science and use machine learning to develop automated cancer diagnosis and prognosis algorithms. We have over 1000 customers from top academic institutes (e.g. Cornell, Harvard, Stanford, Johns Hopkins, MSKCC, Dana-Farber, MD Anderson, Rockefeller, MIT), foundations (e.g. HHMI, CSHL, Cancer research UK, the Jackson labs) and pharmas (e.g. Pfizer, Alexion, Regeneron, Novo Nordisk, Novus). Since inception in 2013, we have doubled our month-over-month sales, driven primarily by customer referrals. Our mission is to fight cancer cooperatively instead of individually by aggregating histopathology data from different labs and hospitals through our automated histology service. -- Position Summary The Lead Engineer is responsible for managing the entire code base and will be the primary developer for the platform. Key requirements:
3 - 5 years of experience building scalable web applications from scratch
Experience with AWS (CloudFormation, EC2, RDS...)
Experience with Python web frameworks (Flask, Django, Bottle...)
Experience with managing and scaling databases (MySQL, NoSQL…) and search (Elasticsearch…)
HTML, CSS, Javascript, and front-end MVC frameworks (Ember.js, Angular.js...)
Linux and dev ops (bash, git, continuous integration, automated testing) experience
Experience managing a team of developers
Living in or willing to relocate to NYC to work in person
Interest in biotech and using computers to find a cure for cancer
Advanced degree in computer science or technical field preferred Prior experience with early stage startups, computer vision, statistics, and machine learning is a plus. We believe in investing in our employees’ professional development, and we encourage networking within the software, tech, and startup communities for all of our employees and collaborators. In addition, we provide the time and freedom to pursue independent projects. We offer a tremendous growth opportunity, flexibility, and independence. We are seasoned scientists with experience at the world’s leading academic institutions, and have published high impact research in top journals of biomedicine such as Nature and Cell. Compensation is top-notch and generous equity is available, commensurate with the impact you have within our organization. Full coverage of health, vision and dental insurance, 3 weeks paid time off & paid company holidays. If interested, please email a resume to ke@histowiz.com. For expedited consideration, include a link to sample code. This could be something personal or contributions to a library preferably written in Python and hosted on Github. |