Software Engineer II, Data Solutions
Company: Tempus
Location: Chicago, IL
Salary: $85,000 - $145,000 a year
Type: Full-time
Posted: 2026-06-15
About this role
Passionate about precision medicine and advancing the healthcare industry?
Recent advancements in underlying technology have finally made it possible for AI to impact clinical care in a meaningful way. Tempus' proprietary platform connects an entire ecosystem of real-world evidence to deliver real-time, actionable insights to physicians, providing critical information about the right treatments for the right patients, at the right time.
Job Description
The Role
As a Senior Software Engineer II on the Data Products team, you will act as a technical leader in building the foundational infrastructure that powers Tempus’ clinical, research, and AI capabilities. The Data Products team provides a platform that supports the full lifecycle of data — from the secure ingestion of data to the cataloging and analysis of that data, powering complex algorithms and models.
You will play a pivotal role in architecting and driving technical strategy for services and APIs that allow bioinformatics scientists, ML and Agent developers to rapidly develop, deploy, and operate their solutions in a highly regulated, secure, and scalable environment. You will focus on data storage and governance, containerized compute orchestration, and forging new connections with the latest GenAI technologies to ensure our platform remains a robust foundation for cutting-edge technologies that help patients live longer, healthier lives.
## Responsibilities
- Lead Technical Architecture: Drive the high-level design and architecture of distributed systems at scale, ensuring alignment with strategic goals for Tempus’s data management platform.
- System Design & Implementation: Design, implement, and test complex production backend web services in TypeScript, serving as a standard-bearer for code quality and system reliability.
- Data Pipelining: Build and maintain pipelines to load schema-defined data into the data warehouse using cloud storage and data warehousing technologies. Provision ...