Summary
As a public and profitable company, we have ambitious plans to scale and enhance our products and services. We’re looking for software engineers who can work holistically to design strategic solutions that go beyond just writing code. A strong track record in understanding business needs, communicating effectively, and delivering impactful results is essential, along with leadership qualities to guide and inspire colleagues.
Job Responsibilities
As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll play a key role in advancing our technology platform and building software products that make a meaningful impact. You’ll have the opportunity to lead technical efforts spanning multiple months across a large-scale system. You'll be expected to propose novel solutions to real-world business challenges, work cross-functionally with engineering and non-engineering peers, and drive results that enhance our user experiences and business workflows.
Day to day tasks may include:
- Dive into unfamiliar code to troubleshoot or add a new feature
- Participate in feature development of larger projects
- Technically lead smaller projects
- Participate in Support tasks, including off-hours and weekend on-call rotations.
- Propose technical designs, considering standard patterns, tradeoffs, and maintainability
- Provide thorough and meaningful code reviews
- Work with legacy as well as novel code bases
- Prototype, develop, and debug new features
- Implement and maintain DevOps cloud patterns
Education, Experience, and Skills
- Proficiency in at least 3 software languages, with a demonstrated ability to quickly learn new ones as needed. Python is highly desired, but other languages such as C#, Java, Javascript/Typescript, or others are acceptable.
- 5+ years experience developing back-end services and APIs in a distributed, service-oriented architecture.
- 5+ years experience building large-scale front-end applications using modern frameworks (React highly desired, but Vue, or Angular are acceptable).
- 5+ years experience with data modeling using multiple database and storage types
- 3+ years experience designing and deploying services in the cloud (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure, OCI).
Bonus points for:
- Prior healthcare / health tech experience, or experience in other regulated industries, particularly with data privacy and compliance requirements
- Kubernetes
#LI-REMOTE
At GeneDx, we're driven by urgency and purpose: helping patients get diagnosed earlier. Our mission, to empower everyone to live their healthiest life through genomics, drives our team to make a tangible impact each day – and shapes our culture where high standards, strong teamwork, and meaningful ownership are the norm. We act with intention, support one another, and deliver work we're proud to put our names on.
Here’s what you can expect day to day:
1. Play like a champion (step up, redefine what’s possible, own it)
We bring energy, focus, and a bias for action. We step up, take initiative, and deliver on our commitments – with quality, speed, and care.
We push past the obvious. We challenge assumptions, raise the bar, and make thoughtful, decisive calls — choosing progress over perfection.
We stay curious, ask questions, and share direct feedback with respect. We adapt quickly and keep learning through collaboration and continuous improvement.
If you’re motivated by meaningful work, a fast-moving environment, and teammates who care deeply about outcomes, you’ll thrive at GeneDx.
We welcome everyone regardless of their background. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, and other characteristics protected by law.
GeneDx is a place where people from all backgrounds can make an impact.
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