Kinship

Senior Backend Software Engineer MlOps (Contract)

San Francisco, CA US
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Description

Kinship and Science & Diagnostics are divisions of Mars Petcare—and are dedicated to one purpose: creating A BETTER WORLD FOR PETS™. Through comprehensive veterinary care, nutrition, breakthrough programs in diagnostics, wearable health monitoring, DNA testing and pet welfare, our 100,000 Petcare Associates help pets in more than 130 countries.

Wisdom is on a mission to help pets live their longest and happiest lives. We are home to the world’s largest and most comprehensive dog DNA database, and a pet parent community passionate about helping us make our next discovery towards achieving Mars Petcare’s purpose: A BETTER WORLD FOR PETS™.

As part of Mars Petcare’s new Science & Diagnostics division, we are entering our next chapter of growth and innovation. 

Having recently launched a best-in-class ancestry prediction and relationships platform, we are now building enhancements to increase accuracy, drive product features and enable health prediction discovery. 

Wisdom sits within the Science & Diagnostics division of Mars Petcare. 

At Mars Petcare we have one purpose: A BETTER WORLD FOR PETS™. Through comprehensive veterinary care, nutrition, breakthrough programmes in diagnostics, wearable health monitoring, DNA testing and pet welfare we help pets thrive in more than 130 countries. For decades we’ve supported research into the incredible science of human animal interaction at the Waltham Petcare Science Institute where scientists discover important advances in pet health and wellness. Mars Petcare is part of Mars, Incorporated, a global, family-owned business with a focus on becoming Sustainable in a Generation, reflective of the many pets and communities we serve.

OUR TEAM 

The Wisdom Engineering team is a critical part of the SDx organization and partners closely with our business, product, design, R&D and customer service teams to architect, build, manage, scale and grow various capabilities that power our Wisdom Panel customer experience. 

The Wisdom team is focused on building engaging product features with full stack engineering. This role will also manage core backend, business partner side of our Wisdom Panel including all the touch points with various parts of integrations with our DNA processing lab partners and the technologies that power this experience.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Work closely with our computational biology and population genetics scientists to create a robust, highly performant and extensible DNA pipeline to drive our science and innovation forward
  • Identify and utilize the best tools and methods to analyze large genetic datasets
  • Create and Implement operational best practices for our production DNA services
  • Design, Build, maintain, and scale research databases and services that integrate data from heterogeneous sources and enables efficient reporting and analysis
  • Serve as liaison with members of the Engineering, IT, and Bioinformatics R&D teams and be the company’s domain expert in and advocate for performant and future-proofed research infrastructure
  • Collaborate across Product, Engineering, and R&D to define product and technical requirements
  • A B.S., M.S, or Ph.D. in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
  • Experience with scientific libraries in Python (e.g., numba, numpy, pandas) and ML tools and frameworks (e.g., scikit-learn, tensorflow)
  • Experience at a biotech, genomics or similar company

WHAT YOU’LL BRING

  • 4-6 years industry experience delivering software platforms built in Python (or other) and deployed to cloud infrastructures (ideally, AWS)

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

  • Strong development skills, ideally with serverless applications experience (e.g. AWS Step, Lambda)
  • Experience with SQL, relational databases, graph databases
  • Deep understanding of cloud computing and appetite to stay up-to-date on innovation in the space
  • DevOps experience creating and managing scalable APIs (CI/CD, Docker, K8s)
  • Extensive experience in writing robust code in a shared development environment
  • Familiarity with MLOps and workflow orchestration tools (e.g., MLflow, Metaflow)
  • Experience in deploying internally developed tools in a production environment
  • Experience managing large datasets
  • Curiosity to collaborate across cultures, flexibility to work across time zones

Excellent communication skills and experience with translating highly technical projects to colleagues

Nice to have:  If you also had these experiences, you’d knock it out of the dog park:

  • A B.S., M.S, or Ph.D. in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
  • Experience with scientific libraries in Python (e.g., numba, numpy, pandas) and ML tools and frameworks (e.g., scikit-learn, tensorflow)
  • Experience at a biotech, genomics or similar company

CULTURAL COMPETENCIES
In all of the roles that we hire for, we look for people who represent the values we aim to uphold in our everyday work, and in how we approach each other: Optimistic, Purposefully Inquisitive, and Open to All. In addition, each Mars Associate is guided by The Five Principles: Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency, and Freedom.


COMPENSATION
The hourly pay for this role ranges from $85 - $95. 

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM US:

  • Opportunities to impact and grow the business on a day to day basis
  • Dog-friendly workplaces 
  • Medical, dental, vision, 401k match, and pet benefits for Full-Time Employees and their families
  • Unlimited paid time off for Full-Time Employees
  • Hybrid work environment 
  • Parental leave for the birth or adoption of your new human child (and fur baby) for Full-Time Employees (adhering to our policy)
  • Discounts on pet products, services, nutrition and veterinary wellness plans
  • An extensive onboarding program with a chance to meet leaders across our divisions

Disclaimer:
Kinship is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. The company is pleased to provide such assistance, and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request.

Note to Search Firms/Agencies:
Kinship does not compensate search firms for unsolicited assistance unless they have a written search agreement with Kinship and the requisition is position-specific.  Any resumes, curriculum vitae, and other unsolicited assistance from search firms that do not have a written search agreement or position-specific requisition submitted to any Associate of Kinship will be deemed the sole property of Kinship and no fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Kinship.

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