Passionate about precision medicine and advancing the healthcare industry?
Recent advancements in underlying technology have made it possible for AI to impact clinical care in a meaningful way. Tempus' proprietary platform connects an entire ecosystem of real-world evidence to deliver actionable insights to physicians, providing critical information about the right treatments for the right patients, at the right time.
About our Teams:
At Tempus, products are owned and developed by small, autonomous teams composed of developers, designers, scientists, clinicians, and product managers. You and your team set the goals, build the software, deploy the code, and contribute to a growing software platform that will make a lasting impact in the field of healthcare research and treatment.
Tempus builds software as nimble as our teams. Our modern tech stack - React, Node.js, Typescript and Python on GCP - allows our teams to iterate rapidly and lead our industry in innovation. Our decentralized, microservice architecture and emphasis on automation allow us to deliver advanced solutions with confidence, and at scale.
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Tempus Next team, you will work on solutions to synthesize clinical data and AI-enabled insights to identify patients with gaps in their clinical care and surface them to providers at the point of care to improve patient outcomes.
Why we’re looking for you:
- You are an independent problem solver who can navigate ambiguity
- You have 5 or more years of hands on software development experience in Javascript or Typescript and are proficient working with Node.js
- Experience deploying production software in a cloud environment
- You can lead in technical analysis and design, evaluate tradeoffs, and establish best practices
- You like writing performant and maintainable software
- You enjoy collaborating and iterating with a cross disciplinary team of product managers and engineers, reviewing code, and are comfortable interfacing with other teams and working with internal services and APIs
- Excellent communication skills
Bonus points for:
- Experience working with web frameworks such as Express.js, Koa, NestJS, and with API design and development
- Experience with UI development using libraries such as React
- Experience working with a relational database such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, and writing SQL
- Experience using GCP services, such as BigQuery, PubSub, GKE
- Experience with Terraform HCL
- Experience working with structured or unstructured clinical data in cardiology or oncology
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The expected salary range below is applicable if the role is performed from [Illinois] and may vary for other locations. Actual salary may vary based on qualifications and experience. Tempus offers a full range of benefits, which may include incentive compensation, restricted stock units, medical and other benefits, depending on the position.
Illinois Pay Range
$110,000—$160,000 USD
We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Additionally, for remote roles open to individuals in unincorporated Los Angeles – including remote roles- Tempus reasonably believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment: engaging positively with customers and other employees; accessing confidential information, including intellectual property, trade secrets, and protected health information; and appropriately handling such information in accordance with legal and ethical standards. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
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What We Do
Tempus is a technology company advancing precision medicine through the practical application of artificial intelligence in healthcare. With one of the world’s largest libraries of clinical and molecular data, and an operating system to make that data accessible and useful, Tempus enables physicians to make near real-time, data-driven decisions to deliver personalized patient care and in parallel facilitates discovery, development and delivery of optimal therapeutics.
The goal is for each patient to benefit from the treatment of others who came before by providing physicians with tools that learn as the company gathers more data. For more information, visit tempus.com.
Why Work With Us
We're looking for those who challenge the status quo. For the builders who are never done building and the learners who are never done learning. We're looking for unwavering commitment and undying curiosity. We're looking for the smartest people on the planet to attack one of the most challenging problems mankind has ever faced.
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Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
Most of the team follows a hybrid policy, with some roles allowing for a fully remote arrangement and some roles being onsite only.