Ginkgo Bioworks
Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack
Boston, Massachusetts · Senior
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$3,937 more — $138,237 — moves this role to Level II and 2 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $138,237 would place this position at wage Level II. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
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About the role
- Ginkgo is constructing, editing, and redesigning the living world in order to answer the globe's growing challenges in health, energy, food, materials, and more.
- This role strongly prefers candidates located in the Boston area with the ability to regularly commute to our Seaport headquarters.
- Clearance sponsorship will be available.
Responsibilities
- Develop high-performance full-stack applications that translate complex biological data and operational needs into intuitive software using Python and modern JavaScript frameworks
- Champion an AI-first mindset, leveraging generative AI tools and LLM-based assistants to accelerate feature development, optimize code quality, and automate routine engineering tasks
- Collaborate with cross-functional domain experts to architect and operate on biological datasets (genomic, diagnostic, or epidemiological), ensuring that surveillance workflows maintain high standards for data integrity, provenance, and security.
- Design and implement robust CI/CD pipelines where automated unit, integration, and security testing are treated as mandatory gates for every code deployment.
- Drive engineering excellence by leading technical design reviews and providing critical feedback on software modularity, while upholding rigorous standards for documentation, observability, and long-term maintainability
- Support production systems by monitoring performance, troubleshooting issues, and continuously improving reliability, including on-call support and triage in off hours
- Experience building and consuming APIs (REST and/or GraphQL).
- Experience developing modern web frontends using JavaScript/TypeScript and frameworks such as React.
Requirements
- 6-8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant full-stack development work, including ownership of complex systems and cross-team technical initiatives.
- Strong proficiency in Python for backend development (our primary programming language).
- Demonstrated ability to integrate AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or similar) into daily workflows to increase productivity and code reliability
- Proven experience collaborating domain experts (scientific, operations, product, etc) to translate complex biological data (genomic, diagnostic, or epidemiological) into robust software solutions and actionable insights
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS) and containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Experience with data pipelines, workflow orchestration, or analytics platforms.
- Comfort working in fast-moving, ambiguous problem spaces where requirements evolve
Nice to have
- Preferred Capabilities and Experience
Compensation
- The base salary range for this role is $134,300.00-$189,900.00.
Benefits
- Prior experience in bioinformatics, computational biology, public health, or a related domain.
- Exposure to regulated or sensitive-data environments (e.g., HIPAA, public health data).
Company info
- Our mission is to make biology easier to engineer.
- Our mission extends across public health, national security, and global defense, ensuring nations can rapidly identify dangerous pathogens, understand where threats originate, and respond with confidence.
- We are seeking a Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer to join the Biosecurity engineering team.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Clearance sponsorship will be available.
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