Senior Software Engineer I

Passionate about precision medicine and advancing the healthcare industry?
Recent advancements in underlying technology have finally 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 real-time, actionable insights to physicians, providing critical information about the right treatments for the right patients, at the right time.

Why We're Looking For You

• You are eager to learn
• You've got experience working on software development teams, and can help lead in technical analysis & design, evaluating tradeoffs, and establishing best practices
• You love exploring hard problems and solving them with data-driven, iterative software development
• You've worked in fast-paced, agile environments and helped keep projects on track, troubleshoot roadblocks, write documentation, and coordinate cross-team collaboration
• You enjoy learning from and collaborating with a diverse, talented team and mentoring junior team members
• You've got experience in both frontend and backend technologies.
• You're proficient in TypeScript and/or Python.
• You embrace GenAI tools in your day-to-day work to boost productivity, accelerate learning, and focus your energy on solving the most impactful problems.

Bonus Points For

• Experience in FastAPI, NodeJS, NestJS, React, Postgres, Jest, Pytest
• Experience in building universal Apps in React Native (Web, iOS and Android)
• Experience integrating GenAI into production systems
• Experience in LangChain, LangGraph, Vercel AI SDK or similar.
• Experience with Docker
• Experience with CI/CD
• Experience with cloud environments such as GCP and/or AWS
• Experience in biotech, genomics, and/or precision medicine

About Our Team
At Tempus, products are owned and developed by small, autonomous teams composed of developers, designers, scientists, 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 cancer research and treatment.

As part of the Tempus One Platform engineering team, you'll play a key role in building horizontal GenAI solutions that power innovation across the company. We partner closely with product and engineering teams to integrate state-of-the-art GenAI capabilities into a wide range of products, enabling them to deliver smarter, more impactful experiences.

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver projects in service of quarterly goals of the team
• Navigate ambiguity and remain resilient through ups and downs
• Work collaboratively with leadership to set realistic ambitious goals, breaking those goals down to smaller projects for the team to execute on
• Support the growth of teammates by taking into account their skills, background and workstyles
• Give constructive feedback, coaching more than criticizing and avoiding blem to solve the right problems. Ultimately, disagreeing and committing when necessary.
• Write code that captures the essential nature of the solution and is appropriately flexible, reusable, efficient, and adaptable to changing requirements
• Proactively identify issues with technical dependencies of your project that are owned by other teams and surface them

How You'll Be Supported

• Regular 1:1's with Manager for support and feedback
• Weekly Architecture Reviews meetings with the rest of the engineering team
• Weekly Engineers Unite meetings providing an opportunity to learn more about how other teams work or present new things you have built
• Opportunity to participate in quarterly Engineering peer mentorship program
• A wide range of active guilds across the company – giving you space to learn, contribute, and connect with others who share your interests
• Bi-annual Innovation weeks to explore self-directed projects

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.