Bioinformatician (with R / Python)

Your responsibilities

• Scientific pipeline development
• technologies used: R/Python + nextflow + docker / singularity, HPC
• Various scenarios: either designing the algorithm from scratch (in tight collaboration with stakeholders) or taking stakeholder's algorithm and productionalizing it (i.e. turning it from a rough script/draft to a robust, tested, performant pipeline)
• R/Python package development
• Code review for other team members
• Data integration pipelines - i.e. a stakeholder requests a report that would answer a specific set of questions based on data already present
• Maintaining CI/CD
• Facilitating meetings (occasionally - cross-team, internal or stakeholder meetings)
• Gathering and refining requirements from stakeholders and other teams

Our requirements

• 4+ years of professional experience in R or Python development
• Python / R package development (R is preferable)
• Good knowledge of: bash, linux
• Experience with git and git workflows
• Test Driven Development, good coding practices
• CI/CD tools (gitlab CI/CD, Jenkins)
• Containerization (docker)
• Relational databases (PostgreSQL)
• Experience in collaborative coding (working concurrently with other team members on the same codebase, code review & feedback system)
• Communication skills
• Genomics-related analyses or other biological data analysis
• Biological (or related) educational background
• Working in an Agile team (we are using kanban)
• Cloud solutions (AWS)
• Apache Spark
• HPC
• Non-relational databases