Principal Software Engineer

This is a full-time role with a client of Dinan & Associates. This role is with an established company and includes excellent health care and other benefits. Role: Principal / Senior Principal Software Engineer Industry: Biotechnology / Pharmaceutical R&D Location: San Francisco Bay Area (Hybrid) The Organization We are a leading global biotechnology company driven to innovate and ensure access to healthcare for generations to come. Our goal is to create a healthier future and more time for patients with their loved ones. The Position Advances in AI, data, and computational sciences are transforming drug discovery and development. Our Research and Early Development organizations have demonstrated how these technologies accelerate R&D, leveraging data and novel computational models to drive impact. Our Computational Sciences group is a strategic, unified team dedicated to harnessing the transformative power of data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to assist scientists in delivering innovative medicines for patients worldwide. Within this group, the Data and Digital Solutions team leads the modernization of our computational and data ecosystems by integrating digital technologies to empower stakeholders, advance data-driven science, and accelerate decision-making. The Role The Solutions team develops modernized and interconnected computational and data ecosystems. These are foundational to building solutions that accelerate the work done by Computational and Bench Scientists and enable ML/AI tool creation and adoption. Our team specializes in building Data Pipelines and Applications for data acquisition, collection, storage, transformation, linkage, and sharing. As a Software Engineer in the Solutions Engineering capability, you will work closely with Data Engineers, Product Leaders, and Tech/ML Ops, as well as directly with key partners including Computational Scientists and Research Scientists. You will build robust and scalable systems that unlock the potential of diverse scientific data, accelerating the discovery and development of life-changing treatments. Key Responsibilities Technical Leadership: Provide strategic and tactical technical leadership for ongoing initiatives. Identify new opportunities with an eye for consolidation, deprecation, and building common solutions. System Design: Responsible for technical excellence, ensuring solutions are innovative, best-in-class, and integrated by delivering data flows and pipelines across key domains like Research Biology, Drug Discovery, and Translational Medicine. Architecture: Learn, deeply understand, and improve Data Workflows, Application Architecture, and Data Ecosystems by leveraging standard patterns (layered architecture, microservices, event-driven, multi-tenancy). Collaboration: Understand and influence technical decisions around data workflows and application development while working collaboratively with key partners. AI/ML Integration: Integrate diverse sets of data to power AI/ML and Natural Language Search, enabling downstream teams working on Workflows, Visualization, and Analytics. Facilitate the implementation of AI models. Who You Are Education: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or similar technical field, or equivalent experience. Experience: 7+ years of experience in software engineering (Principal Software Engineer level). 12+ years of experience (Sr. Principal Software Engineer level). Full Stack Expertise: Deep experience in full-stack development is required. Strong skills in building Front Ends using JavaScript, React (or similar libraries) as well as Backends using high-level languages like Python or Java. Data & Cloud: Extensive experience with Databases, Data Analytics (SQL/NoSQL, ETL, ELT), and APIs (REST, GraphQL). Extensive experience working on cloud-native architectures in public clouds (ideally AWS) is preferred. Engineering Best Practices: Experience building data applications that are highly reliable, scalable, performant, secure, and robust. You adopt and champion Open Source, Cloud First, API First, and AI First approaches. Communication: Outstanding communication skills, capable of articulating technical concepts clearly to diverse audiences, including executives and globally distributed technical teams. Mentorship: Ability to provide technical mentorship to junior developers and foster professional growth. Domain Knowledge (Preferred): Ideally, you are a full-stack engineer with domain knowledge in biology, chemistry, drug discovery, translational medicine, or a related scientific discipline. Compensation & Benefits Competitive salary range commensurate with experience (Principal and Senior Principal levels available). Discretionary annual bonus based on individual and company performance. Comprehensive benefits package. Relocation benefits are available. Work Arrangement Onsite presence on the San Francisco Bay Area campus is expected at least 3 days a week.