Senior Bioinformatics Developer
Hamilton Central, Waikato
- Join a talented team doing life changing work!
- Great work life balance, awesome colleagues, growth opportunities
- Health Insurance+Food&Drinks+Staff Lunches+Staff Events+ Gym Membership+Free Parking+Hybrid Working
- Modern Hamilton City Office, some of best views in town
NetValue is in a growth phase and are searching for a senior bioinformatician to join our very talented team servicing the needs of a US client. NetValue has a strong reputation for quality genomics software and has attracted some of the best talent from across the world.
We operate on a strong philosophy of innovation, collaboration, and delivery that has driven us to become a market leader in digital solutions. We favour projects that directly improve people’s lives, deliver work life balance, run lean agile processes, encourage knowledge sharing (quite a few PhDs in our team), support your career development, and offer competitive remuneration.
About Us
NetValue is part of the newly formed Infusion Group, a merger of NetValue Limited and Infusion Business Software, bringing together expertise in specialised software development and accounting software.
The Infusion Group is a family-friendly, positively focused environment with supportive colleagues, where you can contribute your skills and expertise as a valued team member. We have modern well-equipped offices and plenty of staff benefits to keep you healthy and happy.
As a Group, we embrace diversity and inclusion and value inquisitive minds. We welcome applications from a wide range of people and have a fully accessible office that can accommodate most needs.
About You
You will take the lead on some of the exciting work we do for our clients. You will have a passion for development, a positive, can-do attitude and the curiosity to tackle new client challenges. Ideally, we are looking for someone who has:
- 5+ years in a development role
- Applicable qualification in software development or computer science
- Comfortable with unix command line / shell script programming
- Solid experience with version control (Git) and code repository/release management
- Familiar with modern bioinformatics approaches and algorithms for genomic sequence analysis.
- Ability to advise software developers on relevant biology
- Background or experience in human cancer biology is a bonus
- Experience with next-generation sequencing data, and a record of publications a plus
- Data science experience (Jupyter / RStudio) a plus
- Applied mathematics, Bayesian statistics, machine learning, optimization algorithms, and bioinformatics experience a plus
- Excellent written and oral English skills
Applicants for this position must have NZ residency or a valid NZ work visa.
Employer questions
Your application will include the following questions:
- Which of the following statements best describes your right to work in New Zealand?
- How many years' experience do you have in a software development role?
- Do you have experience working within a lean agile team?
- Which of the following programming languages are you experienced in?