Eikontherapeutics

Software Engineering Manager, Data Engineering

Millbrae, CA

Sponsorship not specified$183k-$221kDetected 2 days ago

PythonC++C#ReactDistributed SystemsPostgreSQLDevOpsMachine LearningData EngineeringMicroscopyResearchLeadershipCommunicationCollaboration

About the role

Eikon Therapeutics is a new biopharmaceutical company employing revolutionary technology at the intersection of chemistry, engineering, computation, and biology to discover novel treatments for life-threatening diseases.
Eikon is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment.
Please do not forward unsolicited agency resumes to our website, employees or Human Resources.

Manage a small team of software engineers.
Maintain essential computational pipelines and applications for ongoing scientific research.
Characterize and communicate design trade-offs to technical and non-technical audiences.
Collaborate with Product and Program Management to develop high-level roadmaps for key software deliverables satisfying defined system-level business needs and user acceptance tests.
The Software Engineering Manager, Data Engineering will join a multi-disciplinary engineering team that develops systems handling multiple high-throughput (PB/week) high-content imaging data streams.
The position's primary responsibility will be to lead a small team to design and support mission-critical computational pipelines to analyze proprietary microscopy data, in collaboration with the larger Engineering, Research and Information Technology teams.
You actively code and collaborate while keeping team goals aligned with business objectives.

Bachelor's degree with 15 years of relevant experience or a master's degree with 12 years of relevant experience or a PhD with 8 years of relevant experience in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field.
Strong proficiency in Postgres, Python, React, TypeScript.
Experience in multiple strongly typed languages such as C++, C# or Java.
Experience with architecting and building analysis software.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, ability to bridge the gap between scientific users, engineers and developers.
Professional experience within the biotechnology, life sciences, diagnostics, or scientific instrumentation industry, with exposure to research, laboratory, clinical, or scientific data environments.
Prior management and leadership experience.
Prior experience building and supporting reliable production data pipelines.
Successful track record designing software and systems architecture, including API and database design, commercial application development, cloud services, and DevOps practices.
Team-oriented, flexible, able to adapt to rapidly evolving goals and challenges.
Demonstrated leadership skills in a changing organization with evolving processes.
At Eikon, employee compensation also includes bonus and equity compensation, in addition to several generous benefit programs, including:
401k plan with company matching
Medical (premiums covered by Eikon at 95%), dental and vision insurance (premiums covered by Eikon at 100%)

At Eikon, employee compensation also includes bonus and equity compensation, in addition to several generous benefit programs, including:

Build reliable, flexible data processing and data storage architecture to organize biological and microscopy datasets and extract features from Eikon's proprietary data.
Define and evolve the engineering system architecture vision to support system features and user-facing capabilities.
Stay up to date with emerging trends and advancements in machine learning, distributed systems, cloud technologies, and software engineering practices, and evaluate their potential impact on our internal products.
Mental health and wellness benefits
Weeklong summer and winter holiday shutdowns
Generous paid time off and holiday policies

Eikon's discovery platform is built on groundbreaking innovations from its founders (Nobel Prize, 2014), culminating in the creation of microscopes which enable real time, molecular-resolution measurements of protein movement in living cells, thereby unlocking otherwise intractable classes of proteins as drug targets.

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