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By joining Bio-Techne, you’ll join a company with a powerful and positive purpose of enabling cutting-edge research in Life Sciences and Clinical Diagnostics. Bio-Techne, and all of its brands, provides tools for researchers to further treat and prevent disease worldwide.
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$87,600.00 - $144,000.00Asuragen, a Bio-Techne brand, is a global molecular diagnostics product and solutions company. We use our unique combination of proprietary chemistry and bioinformatics to develop products that address unmet needs for both clinical research and diagnostic laboratories. Our product portfolio is comprised of reagent kits and software for genetics and oncology applications.
As a Software Engineer, you will contribute to the advancement of commercial software solutions within our rapidly growing Bioinformatics and Software Engineering group in the Bio-Techne Diagnostics Division. Leveraging a strong engineering background and expertise in regulated software development, you will design and deliver high-quality, web-based analysis software for genetics and oncology data processing, reporting, and visualization needs. Working collaboratively and cross-functionally with other software developers, engineers, and scientists, you will play a critical role in designing, developing, and maintaining regulated software solutions, proprietary algorithms for high-efficiency automated data processing, and high-quality software for internal and external customers.
What you will do
Contribute to the development of diagnostic assay kits that advance molecular diagnostics research worldwide and empower patients and healthcare providers with better answers.
Contribute to functional software design, development, testing, and documentation of commercial software applications that directly meet Asuragen’s research and clinical market needs.
Contribute to on-going support and maintenance of new products as they move on to the market by responding to technical investigations, introducing new features and functionality, upgrading tools and frameworks, and proactively identifying bugs and other risks.
Effectively collaborate with Quality Assurance, Regulatory Affairs, and Manufacturing to ensure compliance with internal and external requirements for regulated software.
Actively participate in an Agile software development process including design, planning, estimation, execution, and verification testing activities.
Identify and implement technical and functional improvements to the software engineering toolset and processes, including introducing or improving the use of common frameworks, tools, and software engineering best practices.
Effectively communicate technical topics and project outcomes both internally and externally.
Who You Are & What You Bring
A natural problem solver with an innovative mindset coupled with strong technical acumen.
Master’s degree with 2+ years of industry experience in Computer Science, Bioinformatics, or a related field, or a Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years of industry experience.
Expert working knowledge of C# or JavaScript; experience with Python preferred.
Experience developing professional software user interfaces that are intuitive and easy to use.
Extensive experience writing unit and integration tests and understanding of test-driven design.
Experience developing secure software aligned with modern cybersecurity best practices.
Experience developing and testing software in Unix/Linux preferred.
Experience with cloud-native software development highly desired
Extensive experience with commercial software development tools including professional IDEs (Visual Studio, VS Code, PyCharm), version control with Git, and either Jira or Azure DevOps.
Experience developing and deploying regulated software applications highly preferred.
Demonstrated ability and enthusiasm for working in a multi-disciplinary team setting.
Superb written and verbal communication skills including presenting to audiences with diverse backgrounds.
What We Offer
We have an incredibly talented group of down-to-earth professionals with the experience, drive and creativity to make Asuragen a world-class global diagnostics company. Our workplace is full of enthusiastic, hardworking, and intelligent people with bold ideas and the determination to see them through.
Our best-in-class diagnostic tests are used throughout a patient’s lifespan by laboratories worldwide. Asuragen is located in Austin, TX, which offers top-notch technology, educational, and business benefits.
Why Join Bio-Techne:
- We offer competitive insurance benefits starting on day one: medical, dental, vision, life, short-term disability, long-term disability, pet, and legal and ID shield.
- We invest in our employees’ financial futures through 401k plans, an employee stock purchase plan (ESPP), Health Saving Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Account (FSA), and Dependent Care FSA.
- We empower our employees develop their careers through mentorship, promotional opportunities, training and development, tuition reimbursement, internship programs, and more.
- We offer employee resource groups, volunteer paid time off, employee events, and charity drives to build a culture of caring and belonging.
- We offer an accrued leave policy with paid holidays, paid time off, and paid parental leave.
- We foster a culture of empowerment and innovation, where employees feel valued and encouraged to bring their new ideas to the table.
Bio-Techne is an E-Verify Employer in the United States.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
To protect the interests of all, Bio-Techne will not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than a candidate application. Any unsolicited resumes sent to Bio-Techne will be considered Bio-Techne property.
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