Backend Engineering Team Lead

Weave • San Francisco, CA

1d • $245,000 - $275,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

At Weave, our mission is to evolve how therapeutic knowledge is captured, transformed, and communicated throughout drug development. We do this by equipping human experts with AI instruments to enable drugs to be brought to patients as rapidly, safely, and inexpensively as possible.
The Weave Platform streamlines regulatory workflows from start to finish by intelligently, creatively, and effectively infusing every step with AI. Together with our customers, Weave is designing and building the AI workbench for the entire therapeutic lifecycle.
We’re looking for a Backend Team Lead that can manage and lead our Backend Engineering team. We expect you to lead the people, maintain a healthy working environment, plan long-term architecture initiatives, keep a high-bar of excellence on the team, and grow the team. The buck stops with you on decisions regarding backend architecture, infrastructure, security, reliability and personnel. You will be responsible for driving architectural direction and roadmap execution, as well as supporting the technical and personal development of the other engineers on the team.
Managers at Weave are expected to maintain hands-on capacity. Whether this is through bug fixes, pull request reviews, or healthy debate of technical decisions. We believe that managers must stay technical while staying out of the way of their engineers. Effective decision making requires technical know-how and trust from other engineers. You are the engineer that other engineers can count on; you are technical, you attack every problem with enthusiasm, and you remove hurdles.

Requirements

• Has worked at an early-stage, product-based startup before (<50 people)
• Experience building production software with LLMs-in-the-loop
• Experience experimenting and implementing emerging frameworks, practices and standards with LLMs
• Experience with Django, Postgres, Redis, AWS, etc.
• Able to move quickly on tasks while producing high-quality results
• Direct and candid with leadership, peers, and direct reports
• Experience mentoring and growing employees
• Experience as an architect - proven ability to design and implement robust and scalable systems with flexible and scalable UI that meets future needs
• Experience overseeing and managing projects across teams
• Experience working on a product in a regulated domain or where data privacy + security were essential

Responsibilities

• Directly manage a growing team of 4 Backend Engineers
• Hire and retain extraordinary Backend Engineers
• Set the bar for engineering performance and quality standards
• Conduct performance reviews for direct reports
• Maintain a healthy, productive working environment for engineers
• Plan and execute on backend, infrastructure, security, and architectural investments in coordination with Product and Engineering Leadership
• Coordinate SOC2 and compliance efforts with the team and contractors

Benefits

• The opportunity to work at a modern, cutting-edge healthcare technology company devoted to meaningful positive impact on human life. Collaboration, velocity, and customer obsession are our baseline, demonstrations of craftsmanship and ROI are celebrated.
• Competitive salary ($245,000 - $275,000) and equity packages.
• Comprehensive health, dental and vision insurance
• Take care of you and yours: generous PTO, parental leave, OneMedical, TalkSpace, Teladoc.
• Career development opportunities within a company entering a growth phase.
• This position is based in San Francisco Bay Area, CA with flexibility to occasionally work remote.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees