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Staff Software Engineer, Variant Classification

at Laboratory Corp. of America

📍 2 Locations Hybrid 💰 $100K – $198K USD / year Posted March 13, 2026
Salary $100K – $198K USD / year
Type Full-Time
Experience senior
Exp. Years 10 or more years
Education Bachelor's degree with 10 or more years of recent professional software development experience
Category Software Engineering

This role involves designing and developing tools and systems for variant classification and genomic data interpretation in a healthcare setting, leveraging bioinformatics and cloud technologies.

  • Design and build variant interpretation tools
  • Develop systems for bioinformatic data translation
  • Scale storage for genomic data
  • Maintain variant annotations
  • Automate evidence placement and classification

The technical environment includes Python, relational databases, web frameworks, RESTful APIs, microservices, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), and bioinformatics tools.

The ideal candidate is a senior software engineer with extensive experience in bioinformatics, variant classification, and cloud platforms. They possess strong skills in Python, web frameworks, and database management, with a background in healthcare or genomics.

Bachelor's degree10 or more years of recent professional software development experience10 or more years of experience with Python10 or more years of experience with relational databases10 or more years of experience with web development frameworks10 or more years of experience with front-end technologies10 or more years of experience with RESTful APIs10 or more years of experience with microservices architecture10 or more years of experience with CI/CD pipelines10 or more years of experience with cloud platforms (AWSAzureGCP)
Master's Degree or Ph.D. in Bioinformatics/Computational Biologybioinformatic tools and annotationvariant databases and genomic data resourcesSparknatural language processingsemantic enrichmentontologiesdata miningmachine learningAI
AWSAzureGoogle Cloud Platformrelational databasesbioinformatics toolsvariant databasesClinVargnomADHGMD
Pythonrelational databasesweb development frameworksReactAngularVue.jsJavaScriptTypeScriptHTMLCSSRESTful APIsmicroservices architectureCI/CD pipelinesDevOpsAWSAzureGCPbioinformaticsvariant databasesClinVargnomADHGMDSparknatural language processingsemantic enrichmentontologiesdata miningmachine learningAI
PythonPython (intermediate or higher)relational databasesweb development frameworksReactAngularVue.jsJavaScriptTypeScriptHTMLCSSRESTful APIsmicroservices architectureCI/CD pipelinesDevOps practicesAWSAzureGoogle Cloud PlatformBioinformaticsComputational Biologyvariant databasesgnomADClinVarHGMDSparknatural language processingsemantic enrichmentontologiesdata miningmachine learningAI
collaborationstakeholder communicationproblem-solvingteamworkadaptability
Industry Healthcare IT
Job Function Developing bioinformatics tools and systems for variant classification in healthcare
Staff Software Engineervariant classificationPythonrelational databasesweb development frameworksReactAngularVue.jsJavaScriptTypeScriptHTMLCSSRESTful APIsmicroservices architectureCI/CD pipelinesDevOpsAWSAzureGCPBioinformaticsComputational Biologyvariant databasesgnomADClinVarHGMDSparknatural language processingsemantic enrichmentontologiesdata miningmachine learningAImicroservices

Less than 10 years of software development experience, Lack of experience with Python or relational databases, No experience in bioinformatics or genomics, Unwillingness to work in hybrid schedule

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