Invert is working to automate the design and execution of bioprocesses. Our tools are crucial, as scientists make new biomaterials to solve the environmental crisis, invent new therapies to combat disease, and produce essential chemicals cleanly.
We're a multi-disciplinary team who love learning about each others’ fields, and are very comfortable working with people who haven't previously worked on biology.
You will be joining a fast-growing team of highly ambitious engineers, data scientists, biologist, and more. We're backed by smart investors including Y Combinator and CEOs from industry. We're just getting started, so joining our team will mean having a large impact on a very important problem space.
What you’ll be doing
As a product engineer at Invert, you’ll work mainly on the user facing parts of our product. You will be responsible for the look-n-feel and are expected to shape up the product from rough ideas to styled components and complete features.
Like a Swiss army knife of a product designer and front end engineer.
Responsibilities
- Lead the overall product design and direction of the product UI and UX.
- Work together with engineering, product and business development on shaping features and product ideas.
- Contribute your ideas for MVP versions of features that we can ship quickly to test hypotheses.
- Create flow charts and low-fidelity wireframes to align expectations and design.
- Work closely with engineers and support with styling in ensuring great UI.
- Engineer integrated front-ends with thoughtful user experiences, applying good practice react and styling to the app.
- Help establishing the core of our design principles, a culture and a system for easily spread the use of beautiful components.
Preferred qualifications
- Previous experience as a startup founder or employed at a high-growth startup.
- Experience within the space of biology, ideally synthetic biology or fermentation specifically (nice to have!)
What we’re building on
- Python, FastAPI and MongoDB Atlas in the backend.
- Terraform IaC hosted on AWS.
- Next.js frontend with TypeScript and TailwindCSS hosted on Vercel.
- RTK Query for data management between APIs and UI.
- Proprietary ingestion engine made for easy, flexible, user-driven data transformations.
- GitHub, Linear, Slack, Notion
What we offer
- Early-stage, high growth, impactful startup, offering interesting and challenging work.
- Work-life balance and flexible hours.
- Competitive salary and equity.
- Employee-friendly equity terms (early exercise, extended exercise window).
- Fresh new laptop, monitors, and accessories of your choice.
- Stipend to set up your home office or paid co-working space/desk.
- Quarterly team offsite.
- Unlimited PTO.
- Generous parental leave.
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