Product Engineer, Backend
About The Position
You'll work on backend services that power our impact on the biotech ecosystem, wearing many hats from: Building REST APIs that allow our customers to seamlessly integrate their DNA sequencing results into their lab notebooks. Developing services and integrating APIs for our blazing fast operations, coordinating our couriers, labs, and robots around the world. Building robust payment services to streamline billing, invoicing, and product pricing. Building high performance backend services to process terabytes of sequencing data per day, powering our frontend bioinformatics analytics tools.
Requirements
- BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Math, Physics, or technical subject.
- 3+ years of industry experience.
- Experience with REST API best practices (such as OpenAPI) and designing service-oriented architectures.
- Experience with SQL and data modeling in relational databases.
- Experience with full-stack Python web frameworks like Flask or Django.
- Some familiarity with modern frontend javascript frameworks (React, Vue, Svelte).
- Experience working in AWS (ECS, Lambda, Batch, RDS, StepFunctions) and infrastructure-as-code best practices.
- Experience building distributed systems with task queues (such as Celery and SQS).
- Experience with modern unit and integration testing frameworks for Python.
- Experience using CI/CD to deploy applications like Github Actions.
- Experience working with Linux servers.
Nice To Haves
- (Preferred) interest in learning about biotechnology and DNA sequence analysis.
Responsibilities
- Building REST APIs that allow our customers to seamlessly integrate their DNA sequencing results into their lab notebooks.
- Developing services and integrating APIs for our blazing fast operations, coordinating our couriers, labs, and robots around the world.
- Building robust payment services to streamline billing, invoicing, and product pricing.
- Building high performance backend services to process terabytes of sequencing data per day, powering our frontend bioinformatics analytics tools.
Benefits
- IMPACT: Your work will directly contribute to accelerating biotech research. This research is one of humanity’s most powerful tools for stopping climate change and developing novel therapies.
- INNOVATION: Work on the cutting edge of biotech and software, introducing indispensable tools to top-tier researchers.
- COMMUNITY: Join a passionate, scrappy team that values close, interactive relationships with our customers and each other.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Number of Employees
1-10 employees
