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 do
This role is exactly what it says on the tin.
As a frontend engineer at Invert, you’ll work mainly on the user facing side of our product: designing an building web interfaces, improving UX, performance and look and feel.
Our engineering team is currently spread across Europe, and we’re eager to hire more on the North American west coast, though this is not a strict requirement.
You will play an active role in expanding our team westward, by assuming team lead and mentorship responsibility early.
Responsibilities
- Lead feature implementations, enabling us to quickly iterate, evolve and scale.
- Lead frontend codebase maturation through component libraries, design system, test coverage etc.
- Own the technical decisions of build vs. buy, maintainability and architecture within the frontend.
- Contribute day to day in delivering our cycle goals and long term visions by balancing trade-offs between: speed of product experimentation, reliability, UX, and technical debt.
- Engineer solutions across Invert’s full stack: functionality and styling in the frontend, business logic in the frontend, data model designs, UX, etc.
- Actively engage with our customers and users in collecting feedback early, and often, on product usage, new product features and territory to cover.
- Take (shared) ownership of: product reliability, effectiveness of our processes, and tooling in continuously improving the experience to use and work with our software.
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 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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