Senior Backend Engineer

About the role

We're seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join our growing team in San Francisco. You'll work with our team to create complex but intuitive products to manage R&D.

Challenges You'll Tackle

• Complex Decision Making: Build interactive tools that help organizations model different paths to market for their discoveries, assessing complex tradeoffs between time, money, and technical risk.
• Organizational Alignment: Create intuitive interfaces that help diverse teams (scientists, program managers, executives) understand how their work connects to broader company goals. This includes designing clear ways to visualize complex dependencies and communicate progress across teams.
• Scientific Operations: Design interfaces that scientists and researchers use daily to manage their studies, track progress, and coordinate with their teams. This requires crafting experiences that empower rather than get in the way of work.
• AI-Powered R&D Management: Leverage LLMs to help teams generate and evaluate scenarios, infer scientific progress and risks from unstructured data, and surface critical insights from across their R&D portfolio.

Qualifications

• 6-8 years of backend development experience with production systems at scale
• Deep expertise in TypeScript, NestJS, PostgreSQL
• Track record of building complex, scalable, reliable cloud-based software
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP) and containerization
• Strong experience in data modeling and API design
• Collaborative mindset with proven track record of working effectively in small, fast-moving engineering teams
• Prompt engineering and RAG implementation experience
• Full-stack capabilities - can contribute to frontend when needed (React/TypeScript)
• Track record of mentoring other engineers