Software Engineer, Web Applications
Job Description
This position is in Wakefield, MA. We do offer possible work from home but candidate needs to be able to commute to the office periodically.
POSITION SUMMARY:
The successful candidate is a talented, highly-motivated software developer with experience creating web applications for use in embedded systems and instrumentation, and must enjoy the challenge of bringing new products to market in a fast-paced startup environment. The ideal candidate’s expertise spans the entire modern web stack including data modeling, designing and developing user interfaces, and application deployment. Experience developing applications that leverage cloud services is a plus. Familiarity with biology labs and tools would be amazing. Great communications skills are also highly valued.
At Thrive, you’ll use modern tools and techniques to build applications that help biologists solve real-world problems. You’ll design and build cutting-edge progressive web apps that allow researchers to control our hardware and easily interpret data they collect in real time. Our system is a distributed network of Dockerized hardware control and data services written in C++ and Python, communicating via RabbitMQ. Instrument data is then processed, stored, analyzed and presented to users in order to make workflows more efficient and to improve process quality.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
o Develop UI solutions involving instrument control and automation, data storage, networks and analytics
o Document and demonstrate software solutions with flowcharts, diagrams, charts, and clear code
o Investigate and troubleshoot problem areas
o Support (on-site or remote) installation of products at customer sites and provide customer assistance
REQUIREMENTS:
o 8+ years’ experience, with BS/MS in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or other related discipline
o The ideal candidate will have experience developing in Linux with several of the following technologies:
o Python, with background in asyncio is a plus
o Knowledge of full software development life cycle
o Experience with concurrent software design techniques
o Experience with the following is very desirable:
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, religion, color, national or ethnic origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, genetic information, veteran status, age, or disability status.
QUALIFIED CANDIDATES PLEASE RESPOND TO CAREERS@THRIVEBIO.COM.
Company Description
Thrive Bioscience (thrivebio.com), located in the Boston area, offers customers a family of high-end instruments and software that provide imaging, analytics, and automation for reproducible cell culture. Thrive Bioscience’s instruments significantly improve cell culture workflows and the analysis of live cells, in research and bioprocessing. As a result, biologists are empowered to deliver reproducible results by leveraging microscopy, robotics, and fluidics to capture images and data, which provide analysis, guidance, documentation, and a database of cells. The principal markets are drug discovery, drug development, regenerative medicine, basic research, and the delivery of cell therapeutics. Thrive Bioscience currently sells the CellAssist, a benchtop instrument for imaging and analyzing live cells, to pharmaceutical/biotech companies and research institutes. In late 2020, the company will begin delivery of the AutoImager, which combines the CellAssist along with an automated incubator. The company was founded in 2014, has a portfolio of 54 patent applications, of which eight have been issued, and collaborates with several leading academic institutions.