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Curoverse | Boston, MA | preferred on site, remote possible | full time

Open source startup developing the GPL Arvados (http://arvados.org) (https://github.com/curoverse/arvados) platform for massive scale storage and processing of biomedical big data.

Hiring process: phone screen, coding assignment, in-person interviews with the team

https://curoverse.com/about | https://curoverse.com/jobs

---- Senior Software Developer (Golang) ---- Seeking experienced software developers to join our team. We are polyglot programmers who like hacking on distributed systems and learning new things. You'll be working mostly in Go and Python.

---- Python-Enabled Bioinformatician ---- Build Common Workflow Language (CWL) analysis pipelines for Arvados using common tools (bwa, bowtie, freebayes, gatk, picard, etc) and your own scripts. Document them for other people to learn from.

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