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PostEra · 1 day ago

Lead Software Engineer, Platform

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

$190K/yr - $220K/yr

5+ years exp

PostEra is building a modern, 21st-century biopharma focused on accelerating the discovery of new medicines through its AI platform, Proton. The Lead Software Engineer will shape system design decisions for the drug discovery platform and lead a team in developing scalable applications and microservices.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)BiotechnologyMachine LearningPharmaceuticalTherapeutics

No H1B

Responsibilities

Lead the architectural design and contribute to the development of scalable web applications and microservices

Using cloud providers (ideally AWS), container orchestration frameworks, and IaC best practices

Working with teams who ship products using web-dev stacks composed of Python, modern frontend frameworks, and relational databases like PostgreSQL

Play a pivotal role in mentoring engineers, promoting a culture of cross-team collaboration and continuous learning

Be instrumental in facilitating knowledge sharing sessions, code reviews, and defining team-wide technical standards

Nurture the technical growth of our team members, while directly managing a small team of direct reports, with the possibility of growing into a larger people leadership role

Collaborate with scientists and ML experts to tackle challenges directly contributing to the discovery of novel medicines

Drive projects focused on enhancing our engineering framework such as architecting backend interactions with ML systems, improving our CI/CD processes, setting new standards for code quality and testing, incorporating AI tooling into our development processes, and implementing monitoring solutions that offer real-time insights into our applications' performance

Qualification

Systems designBackend web developmentPythonCloud providers (AWS)Container orchestrationMachine Learning integrationData pipelinesAgentic workflowsTechnical mentorship