Lead System Engineer - Biomedical
WilsonHCG · Saint Louis, MO
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Jul 23, 2026
Saint Louis, MO
Jul 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior engineering role focused on designing and building cloud-native systems on AWS, including microservices, data pipelines, RESTful APIs, and data storage solutions such as data lakes and warehouses. The work spans infrastructure-as-code, containerized deployments, and real-time data integration. Suited to a full-stack engineer with seven or more years of experience, strong Java and AWS skills, and a background in either software or a relevant scientific discipline.
Senior level · 7+ years · St. Louis, MO-IL · Bachelor's required
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 75 people in the St. Louis, MO-IL area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 45–110
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
What the occupation pays Median $131,867 (middle half $103,906–$159,758).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (4)
The posting is a recruiter-sourced listing (Wilson HR) with no compensation details provided.
The required qualifications section explicitly names AWS EC2, S3, Lambda, ECS, EKS, and RDS as well as Java and Angular — these are treated as hard gates. AWS CloudFormation, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS Glue, and REST APIs appear only in the responsibilities narrative, so they are marked preferred.
The degree field accepts a broad range of majors (CS, Biology, Microbiology, Clinical Lab Science, Biomedical Engineering, etc.), reflecting the In Vitro Diagnostics domain; a Bachelor's in any of these fields satisfies the requirement.
There is a secondary data-architecture dimension to this role (data lakes, warehouses, pipelines, data governance), which is why 15-1243 Database Architects is noted as a runner-up SOC, though the primary framing is full-stack software development.
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