Why Pixelgen?

At Pixelgen our mission is to develop groundbreaking bio-analytical tools to revolutionize the world’s understanding of health and disease. As a part of our collaborative team you will contribute with your expertise while making a real impact to the scientific community and beyond.

The role

We are looking for a curious senior software engineer who wants to be part of a world class multidisciplinary team of scientists, bioinformaticians and software engineers building the future of protein interactomics.

As a software engineer at Pixelgen Technologies you will design, build, test and ship the software that forms an integral part of our product offering. You will work to enable researchers to find novel biological and clinical insights by building the best tools for the job. We think you are interested in things like user-friendly APIs, algorithms, distributed computing, software packing, data analysis, and visualization tools, to name a few.

Currently most of our software is built using Python and R, and we use Nextflow as our primary workflow orchestrator. The core of our software stack is open source, and is available under our Github organization.

Pixelgen Technologies is a highly collaborative environment, and to be successful in this role you need to be excited about helping others. You want to work as part of a team, in planning, executing, and evaluating software activities.

This position requires at least 60% on-site presence in Pixelgen’s Stockholm office.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test and ship high quality software solutions

• Support software development best practices at Pixelgen Technologies

• Troubleshoot and debug software issues

• Participate in agile processes to plan, execute and evaluate development efforts in the company

• Support other functions in the company (leadership, the commercial organization, etc) with software expertise

Requirements

• 3+ years of professional software development experience

• Proficient in one or more of the following programming languages: Python, Rust, or C/C++

• Experienced in applying software development best practices (version control, automated testing, CI-systems, continuous deployment, etc)

• Experienced in working in linux-based environment, including container technologies

• Collaborative spirit with excellent communication skills

• Holistic problem solver: is able to take initiatives, plans work, and executes it independently

The ideal candidate will also tick one or more of the following boxes:

• Experience working with Nextflow

• Experience working with building and maintaining local and cloud compute infrastructure applying infrastructure-as-code principles

• Experience building full-stack web applications

• Experience working in research (e.g. PhD degree or similar)

• Experience working with next-generation sequencing data

• In-depth knowledge in the data science field

• In-depth knowledge of bioinformatics analysis workflows, especially in the single-cell and/or proteomics fields

• In-depth knowledge of graph theory and implementation of graph algorithms

• In-depth knowledge of high performance computing techniques (e.g. vectorization, GPU compute, etc)

• Open source contributor