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Principal Software Engineer

Employer
Moderna, Inc.
Location
Norwood, MA
Start date
Oct 6, 2022

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Discipline
Engineering, Software Engineer
Required Education
Bachelors Degree
Position Type
Full time
Hotbed
Genetown, Best Places to Work

Job Details

The Role:
Modernas Informatics organization is growing! Were looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join the Preclinical & Technical Development team. This team is focused on enabling the high-throughput synthesis of mRNA by writing custom software to drive integrated workflows and robotics automation. This allows our process engineers to translate small-scale discoveries to clinical-grade materials that feed into our clinical trials.

As mRNA is an information molecule, digital at Moderna is a multiplying force and fundamental to our success as a platform company. Your impact will be truly felt at all levels of the organization, to help deliver on the promise of mRNA to create a new generation of transformative medicines for patients.

You will mentor fellow team members, lead development projects, and continue to learn yourself, as you advance your career and help build internal applications that drive our ability to deliver life-saving therapeutics for patients!

Heres What Youll Do:

  • Collaborate with product owners to understand business needs and design solutions
  • Develop full stack JavaScript / TypeScript web applications as part of a team
  • Deploy cloud-based applications to AWS using Docker
  • Build innovative and intuitive applications to transform business processes
  • Integrate applications with instruments to drive automation and collect data
  • Deliver solutions to users in an extremely rapid, agile cycle
  • Lead and contribute to many different projects in a dynamic, fast-moving environment
  • Work independently to deliver complex features and improvements
  • Collaborate with and provide guidance to other members of the team

Heres What Youll Bring to the Table:

  • BS/BA degree in Computer Science or equivalent with 8+ years of experience
  • Experience working in Life Sciences, pharma/biotech, manufacturing, or related scientific field preferred
  • Deep experience in full stack web application development. Node.js, Express.js/Nest.js, and Angular 10+ preferred
  • Experience with SQL and modeling relational databases. PostgreSQL experience preferred
  • Experience with web user interface design using HTML, CSS, and Modern JavaScript/TypeScript libraries
  • Deep experience using / designing web services and REST APIs
  • Expert in software development best practices: agile, unit/integration testing, Git
  • Excellent communication skills, ability to work directly with users to understand requirements
  • Experience with Docker and AWS technologies like EC2, S3, SQS, etc.

Moderna is pleased to provide you and your family with a comprehensive and innovative suite of benefits, including:

  • Highly competitive and inclusive medical, dental and vision coverage options
  • Flexible Spending Accounts for medical expenses and dependent care expenses
  • Lifestyle Spending Account funds to help you engage in personal enrichment and self-care activities
  • Family care benefits, including subsidized back-up care options and on-demand tutoring
  • Free premium access to fitness, nutrition, and mindfulness classes
  • Exclusive preferred pricing on Peloton fitness equipment
  • Adoption and family-planning benefits
  • Dedicated care coordination support for our LGBTQ+ community
  • Generous paid time off, including:
    Vacation, sick time and holidays
    Volunteer time to participate within your community
    Discretionary winter shut down
    Paid sabbatical after 5 years; every 3 years thereafter
  • Generous Paid Leave offerings, including 18 weeks of 100% paid parental leave for all new parents
  • 401k match and Financial Planning tools
  • Moderna-paid Life, LTD and STD insurance coverages, as well as voluntary benefit options
  • Complimentary concierge service including home services research, travel booking, and entertainment requests
  • Free parking or subsidized commuter passes
  • Location-specific perks and extras!

Candidates should be aware that Moderna currently maintains a policy requiring all US-based employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and receive a booster shot once eligible. Newly hired employees must be vaccinated and boosted prior to their employment start date. Moderna is an equal opportunity employer and will provide a reasonable accommodation to those unable to be vaccinated or receive a booster where it is not an undue hardship to the company to do so as provided under federal, state, and local law.

About Moderna

In over 10 years since its inception, Moderna has transformed from a research-stage company advancing programs in the field of messenger RNA (mRNA), to an enterprise with a diverse clinical portfolio of vaccines and therapeutics across seven modalities, a broad intellectual property portfolio in areas including mRNA and lipid nanoparticle formulation, and an integrated manufacturing plant that allows for rapid clinical and commercial production at scale. Moderna maintains alliances with a broad range of domestic and overseas government and commercial collaborators, which has allowed for the pursuit of both groundbreaking science and rapid scaling of manufacturing. Most recently, Moderna's capabilities have come together to allow the authorized use and approval of one of the earliest and most effective vaccines against the COVID-19 pandemic.

Moderna's mRNA platform builds on continuous advances in basic and applied mRNA science, delivery technology and manufacturing, and has allowed the development of therapeutics and vaccines for infectious diseases, immuno-oncology, rare diseases, cardiovascular diseases and autoimmune diseases. Moderna has been named a top biopharmaceutical employer by Science for the past seven years. To learn more, visit www.modernatx.com.

Moderna is a smoke-free, alcohol-free and drug-free work environment.

Moderna is committed to equal employment opportunity and non-discrimination for all employees and qualified applicants without regard to a persons race, color, gender, age, religion, national origin, ancestry, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation or any characteristic protected under applicable law. Moderna will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities, in accordance with applicable law.

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Company

Moderna is advancing messenger RNA (mRNA) science to create a new class of transformative medicines for patients. Moderna’s platform builds on continuous advances in basic and applied mRNA science, delivery technology and manufacturing, providing the Company the capability to pursue in parallel a robust pipeline of new development candidates. Moderna is developing therapeutics and vaccines for infectious diseases, immuno-oncology, rare diseases and cardiovascular diseases, independently and with strategic collaborators.

mRNA is now a turning point in the history of science, medicine, technology, even humankind itself. With this breakthrough discovery, many of the world’s biggest and most challenging medical problems are no longer a question of “how?” but merely a question of “when?”

Come with us as we pursue the uncharted reaches of possibility and make your mark on the future of medicine.

 

Stock Symbol:

MRNA  

Stock Exchange:

USNASDAQ GS

 

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Company info
Website
Phone
617-714-6500
Location
200 Technology Square
Cambridge, MA
United States

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