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# Software Engineer (Backend, MCP)

- **Company:** BIOTURING, INC.
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Software Applications, Bioinformatics, Code Review, General-Purpose Computing on Graphics Processing Units, Inter-Process Communication, Python (Programming Language), Open Source Technology, TypeScript, Large Language Models, Backend, Data Analytics, Api Design, Software Coding
- **Published:** August 1, 2026
- **Apply:** https://arc.dev/remote-jobs/j/redirect/p8u1j5ncos

## About the Role

Must have

 * Strong backend engineering skills in at least two of: TypeScript, Python, or another mainstream backend language.
 * Comfortable reading and forking large codebases; able to extend an existing system without rewriting it.
 * Experience with inter-process communication, subprocess management, and HTTP API design.
 * Hands-on experience with at least one of: MCP/agent tool systems, desktop apps, or local-first sync engines.
 * Strong system design intuition - you can break a feature into parts, name the boundaries, and explain the trade-offs.
 * A habit of investigating before asking - you read the code, run the tests, and form a hypothesis before requesting help.

Nice to have

 * Experience with single-cell genomics, ontologies, or bioinformatics tools.
 * Experience with GPU computing or large-scale scientific data.
 * Contributions to open-source projects.
 * Exposure to code tracing, sandboxing, or safe LLM-code execution.

Personal qualities we value

 * Hardworking and reliable.
 * Curious and open-minded.
 * Strong problem solver.
 * Communicates proactively.
 * Thinks about long-term maintainability before writing code

## Description

* Build the desktop app backend, adopting and extending our forked open-source architecture.
 * Design and implement local MCP servers and Skills that expose our analytics capabilities to in-app and external agents.
 * Bridge the new desktop layer with our existing analytics services - handling subprocess lifecycle, streaming results, and error propagation.
 * Collaborate with the team to grow the product's features and capabilities as needs evolve.
 * Write clear design docs and PR descriptions; review code; investigate and adopt new tools as the product evolves.


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