Senior Manager, Software Engineering

At Adaptive, we’re Powering the Age of Immune Medicine. Our goal is to harness the power of the adaptive immune system to transform the way diseases are diagnosed and treated.

As an Adapter, you’ll have the opportunity to make a difference in people’s lives. With Adaptive, you’ll create a career highlight through collaboration with bright, curious colleagues working at the apex of innovation and application.

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Position Overview

The Senior Manager, Software Engineering leads the activities of a software development team for software enhancements and new product development.

Leaders at Adaptive demonstrate behaviors consistent with Adaptive’s Core Values and Leadership Principles. Critical functions of your role include helping establish individual team member goals, aligning those individual goals with broader team objectives, and ensuring those objectives drive the achievement of company goals. Providing thoughtful coaching and consistent feedback to your team members will drive performance excellence and accountability, as well as support your team members’ growth and development. Leaders at Adaptive create an environment of belonging, respect, and open and honest communication every day.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Oversees all development phases including specification, design, implementation, testing, deployment and running software that supports Adaptive’s production software systems.
• Interacts with software program managers and internal customers to define application requirements and/or necessary modifications.
• Manage a team of software developers, prioritizing efforts to align with company and team goals
• Develop strong technical understanding of production systems and plan for continuous improvement with elimination of technical debt
• Participate in release activities, phases including specification, design, implementation, testing, deployment
• All other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s in computer science, Bioinformatics, or equivalent is required with 12+ years of related software engineering and leadership experience.
• Masters in computer science with 8+ years of related experience.
• Experience creating and maintaining complex software using modern methodologies in both Linux and Windows environments.
• Extensive experience with a modern general scripting language such as Python or Groovy; strongly typed object-oriented languages such as Java or C#; experience with relational databases such as Oracle or Postgres. Strong familiarity with source control, unit testing, in-code documentation and automated build environments. Superior communication skills are essential to effectively interact in a highly diverse cross-discipline environment with non-computer scientists such as lab technicians, biologists, geneticists and statisticians. Ability to work well in a team is crucial; should be open to pair-programming and/or code-reviews.
• Experience dealing with production issues including interacting with primary users, providing production support. Ability to understand, debug, maintain, and/or refactor legacy code. Experience with Java Servlets, JSPs, HTML, and JavaScript.
• Knowledge of object-oriented JS frameworks like AngularJS. Experience with build tools like Ant or Gradle. Experience with web UI frameworks, Web services, and RESTful APIs.

Working Conditions

Office environment, travel if needed, max 10%

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Compensation

Salary Range: $163,100 - $244,700

Possible “other compensation” elements to include:

• equity grant
• bonus eligible

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Interested in this position, but don’t meet all the requirements? Adaptive is committed to building diverse, equitable, and inclusive teams across our organization. Please consider applying even if your experience doesn’t match all the qualifications; you may be the exact candidate we’re searching for!

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Adaptive’s posted compensation information includes a base salary (or hourly rate) range and summary of other available total compensation. The base salary range represents a minimum-to-maximum salary (or hourly rate) available to candidates upon extension of offer. Base salary is thoughtfully considered upon offer and is determined through multiple evaluation checks throughout the interview process, including: a candidate’s ability to meet minimum qualifications (skills/experience/education), a candidate’s ability to thoughtfully address preferred qualifications, current market conditions, and internal pay equity. Listed base salary is exclusive of bonus, commission, equity, differential pay, benefits, and other incentives.

Adaptive's benefits at-a-glance.

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