UI Engineer

DNAnexus is the leading cloud-based SaaS company serving the global life science community. DNAnexus’ health informatics platform serves customers across a spectrum of industries — government, biopharmaceutical, clinical diagnostics, healthcare, and academic research in 33 countries with compliant protection of data, privacy, and intellectual property. The platform provides a secure and collaborative environment where genomics, multi-omics, and real world data can be combined with clinical data at scale, providing new insights that can lead to improved diagnostics, new targeted therapies and better patient care.

DNAnexus is growing its team of globally-recognized engineers and scientists to provide novel tools for visualizing and analyzing genetic data. Our work helps save lives, and we’re seeking engineers who are impassioned by that.

DNAnexus is seeking JavaScript engineers who:

• believe in the power of functional composition over object inheritance
• fully understand a modern UI stack including React/Redux, JSS, Webpack, and ES7
• are motivated to help develop and evangelize even more advanced solutions
• are committed to proving their code’s stability through testing
• are motivated by having a measurable, positive effect on the world

You will be working with a diverse, international UI team to build cutting-edge applications that help our customers visualize and analyze DNA sequencing data. Science nerds please apply!

Technologies we use:

• Typescript with a focus on modern, compliant browsers (Javascript in older code)
• React/Redux-based stack (including React-query, RTK, Redux-saga)
• JSS for themed, reusable components
• Jest, React Testing Library and Cypress for automation testing
• Prettied and ESLint to increase the comfort of our development
• IndexedDB and web-workers for large data storage & processing
• D3.js and SVG for data visualization
• Modular architecture approach and domain-driven design
• Storybook for component library design & discovery
• Github for collaboration and automation
• Webpack to help us bundle it all up

Requirements and Desirable Qualifications:

• 3+ years of UI development experience
• Ability to work well with a diverse team and take lead on specific features
• Experience with large-scale modular projects and component libraries
• Good JavaScript ES6+ and TypeScript knowledge
• Solid HTML5/CSS3 knowledge
• React is essential; Redux, RTK, React-query, Sagas and React Testing Library are plusses
• Good sense of visual and interaction design; experience in data visualization a plus
• Knowledge of genetics and DNA sequencing not required, but certainly helpful
• Passion for building UI!

What We Care About

• Curiosity and humility. We are dedicated to learning and constantly improving.  We hope you also value "unknown unknowns" and have a natural drive to figure out how everything works.
• Agility and ownership. Our teams have a high degree of freedom on how they build their systems, but they also take full ownership of what they deliver, in the long run.
• Monitoring and automation. We strongly believe that a fully automated system is key to rapid iterations, while an extensive set of metrics highlights what needs to be done.
• Balancing research and product. We value staying up-to-date on cutting edge research, while also shipping meaningful products enabling researchers to fulfill their mission.

Based in Mountain View, California, DNAnexus is experiencing rapid growth and is searching for the best talent to join our team. We recently completed a $200 million financing round to advance our growth globally to further serve leading healthcare and life science organizations. Key investors include Google Ventures, Perceptive Advisors, Northpond Ventures, TPG Biotech, and Foresite Capital. 

DNAnexus will provide the necessary support to enable the ideal candidate to work remotely within the Czech Republic.