Tempus
Senior Software Engineer
$110K–$160K
Chicago · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 20, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of advanced development; 7+ years of software development experience with a track record of technical leadership.
About the job
Leads engineering for diagnostics products, building scalable applications and genomic data-processing workflows while integrating AI tooling and agentic workflows.
What you'll do
- Analyze and design complex technical solutions, architect systems, and mentor engineers.
- Build and scale bioinformatics orchestration pipelines and distributed services for genomic data processing.
- Integrate APIs and AI capabilities into user-facing applications and promote AI-assisted development.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of advanced TypeScript/JavaScript/python development.
- Experience architecting and leading development with Node.js and NestJS; React development experience.
- Experience building and maintaining bioinformatics orchestration pipelines and managing workflows with Seqera Platform (Nextflow Tower).
- Advanced PostgreSQL skills and experience with Redis, distributed microservices, GCP, and CI/CD.
Nice to have
- Nextflow (DSL2) expertise and cloud-native workflow execution experience.
- Experience with Elasticsearch or OpenSearch, Docker or Kubernetes, or biotech, genomics, or precision medicine.
Pay
$110,000-$160,000 (base salary; CHI)
Tools
TypeScript, JavaScript, python, Node.js, NestJS, React, Nextflow, Seqera Platform (Nextflow Tower)
AI focus
Use GenAI coding tools and autonomous agents to accelerate development, refactor code, generate tests, and integrate AI technologies and agentic workflows into production products.
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