Backend Software Engineer

• Designing and developing a service-oriented decoupled web application, which exposes our advanced machine learning models to scientific end users
• Architecting the ways in which we manipulate and store biological sequence data, e.g. with consideration for how to efficiently represent the full variety of biochemicals
• Architecting the APIs across which we interact with machine learning models, e.g. with consideration for how to version access over time
• Providing technical leadership for a high-quality software engineering process
• Collaborating with biologists, machine learning experts, and scientists alike, and becoming skilled in working in their domains

• Extensive industry experience in developing back-end systems in a modern cloud environment
• The Python programming language and its ecosystem (FastAPI, uv, ruff, pyright, …)
• Databases and big data systems
• Production systems for machine learning applications
• Building containerized backend systems. (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Highly-available distributed cloud systems
• You are kind and work well in teams. We look for team players and excellent communicators who contribute to a positive and friendly working environment

Prior biological experience is nice but not required

• Very competitive salary
• Generous equity stake (for full time employees)
• Wide range of benefits
• Career progression opportunities