Lead Software Engineer

Seqera exists to advance science for everyone through software

We provide software for scientists solving today's most complex and important challenges from pioneering innovative therapeutics to unveiling the secrets of our universe. The journey began a decade ago with Nextflow — open software that helps over 100,000 global scientists analyze and process data, with more power and flexibility than ever before.

Today, Seqera consolidates fragmented data and diverse computing resources into a unified platform. Our modern biotech stack is trusted by over 150 leading life sciences organizations. Empowered with modern software engineering, organizations conduct science faster, on larger datasets, and with more confidence. Seqera accelerates discoveries in an open world.

Would you like to be a part of a company with a bigger purpose and make it successful with your own ideas? If yes, keep reading!

About the role

We are seeking an experienced Lead Software Engineer for our “Seqera Platform” team: a customer-facing product delivered both as a cloud and an on-premises solution that enables scientists to solve complex problems in biotech with a set of modern tools at their fingertips, and administrators and collaborators to have the access they need to scientific research.

The ideal candidate is passionate about addressing a wide range of technical challenges: not just frontend or backend, but also complex problems involving infrastructure, distributed programming, containerization, cloud architectures, and integrations.

Working on the Seqera Platform is an exciting opportunity to learn and work with a diverse range of technologies, and we are committed to build a process where we can deliver high quality and iterate fast, which requires us to develop solid engineering practices that include end-to-end testing, observability frameworks, deployment standards and automation as well as operational excellence processes.

What You'll Do

• You will lead a team of highly talented engineers who design, implement, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code across our full software stack.

• Engage extensively with your product team and cross-functionally. This involves interpreting and integrating customer feedback into the development cycle to ensure our products not only meet but exceed user expectations

• You will collaborate with your fellow engineers to develop the best engineering practices. In short, be an active member of the organization:

  • Improving processes

  • Documenting and creating onboarding artifacts

  • Helping with hiring, identifying and prioritize accordingly the technical backlog accordingly

  • Generating a valuable impact on the engineering culture in Seqera

About you

• With a strong foundational knowledge in software engineering, you have experience in both front-end and back-end development, and are able to ramp up quickly on new frameworks and technologies.

• You have experience in writing optimized, well-tested, and secure code in both front-end and back-end settings. This includes proficiency in implementing efficient algorithms, using best practices in coding standards, and adhering to security measures to protect data integrity and prevent vulnerabilities.

• Have proven experience designing, modeling, and operating database systems. You are able to guide data modeling decisions, schema evolution, and performance trade-offs as the product scales.

• Have proven experience in API Design and Best Practices: you should handle requests from a set of different clients and products from the Seqera Ecosystem and from our Enterprise use cases

• Have worked on cloud architectures and cloud application deployments: you should have worked with at least one of the major cloud providers and have built distributed architecture on top of its service offering

• You are familiar with container technologies and orchestration solutions such as Kubernetes and/or Docker Compose

Nice to have:

• Knowledge of HPC and Batch solutions, both on-premise and in the cloud (AWS Batch, Google Batch and/or Azure Batch)

• You have worked with Angular and React before

• You are passionate about the whole application life cycle, you have not just designed and implemented elegant code and solutions but also deployed them, monitored them, maintained them, and iterated on them in your experience

• Experience in both Enterprise and Saas architectures.

Don’t meet every single requirement? At Seqera, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role and your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

What will you find working at Seqera?

• Flexible working hours.

• International working environment with more than 25 nationalities.

• Passionate & talented team.

• Continuous skills development.

• Team retreats and bonding activities.

• A culture where your opinion is valued and your decisions have a real impact on the industry.

• Excitement of a fast-growing startup in a constantly changing environment.

Great benefits

• Time off: 23 days for vacations per year, 3 days given by Seqera in December, and the national/public holidays according to your location.

• Equity

• Private health insurance

• Private life insurance

• Home office allowance (valued over 1,000 USD)

• Subscription to Oliva, Mental Health App

• Learning and development budget per year (1,000 USD)

You should know

Seqera is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. However you identify or whatever your journey to this point, we welcome all candidates to apply for the position that inspires them. Come join us and help us build a global company that everyone is proud to be part of.

As we scale, we constantly improve our in-office and WFH environments and learn to help everyone have the best setup for our company's success and your personal development while always keeping the human touch in every aspect of our lives.

Why join us?

By learning from and with each other, we ensure our ability to drive innovation and make better decisions toward our mission. Most importantly, our culture provides a genuinely fun, inclusive, and challenging environment that will allow you to grow while making a huge difference in human health and beyond.