Staff Software Engineer

**Help us change lives** At Exact Sciences, we’re helping change how the world prevents, detects and guides treatment for cancer. We give patients and clinicians the clarity needed to make confident decisions when they matter most. Join our team to find a purpose-driven career, an inclusive culture, and robust benefits to support your life while you’re working to help others. **Position Overview** At Exact Sciences, we are cancer fighters. We are united by our mission to change lives by providing earlier, smarter answers. Through advances in cancer detection and treatment guidance, we will help eradicate the disease and the suffering it causes. As a Staff Software Engineer, this extremely seasoned professional will demonstrate competence and creativity in a wide range of technical areas. This role will have a lead role in the design, development, and testing of multiple complex software applications for Exact Sciences, creating expert design concepts and foolproof debugging. This role will be expected to operate as part of a team, communicate effectively with business stakeholders and mentor junior team members. This role will routinely make key decisions for the team, be accountable for application quality, and set high standards for personal productivity. This role’s skills and work are critical to driving company objectives and achieving goals for the organization. Working in our Software Engineering teams, you will be responsible for developing, enhancing, and sustaining software systems in a cross-functional team environment through adherence to established design control processes and good engineering practices. You will design and create engineering specifications for building software programs based on a broad knowledge of information systems and determine what development methodology to use after documenting software requirements. This is an onsite position in our San Diego office. **Essential Duties** Include, but are not limited to, the following: - Has in-depth understanding and works on a wide range of issues while applying advanced knowledge, skills, and practices to diverse programs and initiatives demonstrating creativity and mastery of specialized techniques, processes, procedures. Exercise independent judgment in methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for obtaining results. - Troubleshoot issues and problems of high complexity for major software applications; break down complex tasks, alternatives, problems, and solutions with an eye on limiting the need for later problem solving; utilize mastery of tools needed to debug and diagnose issues in any type of environment. - Act as a Technical Lead for your team due to their trust in your technical expertise and coaching – lead without authority, show initiative and support all levels when needed without being asked; deliver feedback in a constructive manner; provide guidance to entry-level engineers; collaborate often with other technical leads, incorporating feedback as needed; focus team discussion on important aspects. - Design lasting applications while working with product teams. This may include organizing people and resources toward the effective and efficient purpose of pre-determined objectives serving large business or technology project(s). - Take full ownership of quality and difficult designs that impact and influence the department’s delivery and approach. - Understand the scope and relationships of large features and productions for your domain. - Contribute, interpret, and communicate enterprise, technical, project, and operational strategies, considering company dynamics. - Build successful internal partnerships with peers, SMEs, stakeholders, and decision-makers. Manage vendor and external partnerships. - Consistently influence and make significant decisions across multiple projects. Guide discussions on critical areas of impact. - Ability to work nights and/or weekends, as needed. - Uphold company mission and values through accountabilit…