PostEra is building a modern biopharma, using machine learning to accelerate medicinal chemistry, to develop cures for diseases, faster. We've raised $26M from top investors, secured a $68M NIH partnership to prevent pandemics, and established a $260M partnership with Pfizer. We also launched and help lead the world's largest open-science initiative to find a COVID antiviral; COVID Moonshot.
About the role
- PostEra’s product and engineering team is looking for an experienced backend engineer to join the team with a focus on our data pipelines and search solutions
- The average drug discovery campaign generates vast amounts of chemical data. When you couple that with generate AI technology, the amount of data a chemist needs to navigate and make decisions with is quite large.
- You will help build out search/filter/sort solutions for existing and new data visualization tools, improve our data pipelines, and work on chemical structure search solutions for chemists to navigate the aforementioned data.
- You will work with PostEra’s team of engineers, machine learning researchers, and chemists to offer responsive, reliable, and secure data access and search solutions, iterating on existing solutions and innovating on novel improvements
Desired skills and experience
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent industry experience
- 3+ years work experience
- Enthusiastic about test-driven development with a track-record building robust, stable, well-tested technology
- Experience developing REST and gRPC APIs for internal consumption and client-facing
- You have a deep understanding of modern database systems and the ecosystem around them
- Experience in at least one compiled language, and interest in working with Rust
- Experience with developing robust database search infrastructure and algorithms
Bonus
- Experience building compliant (SOC 2, ISO 27001) systems
- Experience building scientific applications and algorithms
- Experience with python for backend application development, with proficiency in Django
- Experience (directly or worked closely with a team using these tools) across our tech-stack: AWS/terraform, Postgres, Rust, Python/Django, TypeScript/React
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