One Codex (YC S14) is hiring engineers to work on infectious disease diagnostics

One Codex – Genomic search and data platform. San Francisco, CA (https://www.onecodex.com). We’re a software and biology start-up building a platform for microbial genomics – an essential piece of infrastructure for a world in which we increasingly understand health, disease, and our environment by transforming biology into data.

Our first application area is infectious disease diagnostics – where we’re already working with doctors, epidemiologists, and others at the world’s leading public health and research organizations. We were also awarded a $200,000 prize by the CDC for our work on “strain-typing” pathogenic bacteria, and are backed by some of the best investors in Silicon Valley.

We’re looking for talented software engineers to help us build towards our vision for a global genomics data network and enable widespread in silico diagnostics.

YOU’RE A GOOD FIT IF:

- You’re a generalist software engineer that loves hard problems

- You want to work on a technology product making an important real-world impact

- You’re excited about joining a small team and directly impacting the shape of its technology choices, product, and business

- You communicate well and work effectively with others

- Pluses (but not requirements): biology/compbio background; experience with Docker in production; prior experience with Flask, React, D3

WHY ONE CODEX?

- Important problem: We’re not only working to build a better diagnostic test for infectious diseases, but setting the groundwork for entirely entirely new clinical, scientific, and public health applications that will come with an improved, real-time understanding of “microbial space”.

- Hard, intellectually interesting challenges: Amongst other things, we are 1) applying and developing cutting-edge bioinformatics algorithms; 2) developing and deploying new data structures (really!); 3) finding better ways to manage messy genomic data; and 4) and running Docker in production. In short, there are plenty of near- and medium-term hard engineering challenges, and there’s more to our technology solution than just a simple CRUD app.

- Upside: We offer a competitive salary, meaningful above-market equity, and the chance to be an early employee in a well-positioned startup.

OTHER BENEFITS

- Full medical, dental, and vision coverage

- Flexible vacation policy and relocation assistance if moving to the Bay Area

- Whatever computing set up you prefer

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Please send us a note about your interest and background at careers@onecodex.com or reach out to me directly at nick@onecodex.com.