Backend Software Engineer - Hybrid

Position Overview

Join our dynamic team as a Sr Full Stack Engineer / Technical Lead – on site. Location: SF/Bay Area, California. You will be working at a software development startup in the pharma industry focused on accelerating drug development timelines to bring treatments to patients months faster. Our company is experiencing hyper-growth with 9x year-over-year progress and is already collaborating with several top pharma companies. Join a high-impact team of 7–8 people building innovative products for large-scale organizations.

Key Responsibilities

• System Design: Designing, building, and maintaining scalable backend systems in a production environment.
• AI Implementation: Rapidly learning and applying new techniques in LLM development (fine-tuning, RAG, and prompt engineering).
• Collaboration: Working across teams including product managers, medical writers, and customer success to translate requirements into technical solutions.
• Interview Stages: 3-4, including a take-home code assessment.

Required Qualifications

• Backend Experience: 3+ years in software development; proficiency in building APIs from the ground up using modern Python frameworks (FastAPI, Django, etc.).
• AI/ML: Experience building GenAI applications, complex prompt engineering, data pipelines, evaluation frameworks, and RAG.
• Cloud & Infrastructure: Experience deploying/scaling containerized applications in cloud environments (AWS preferred) and building CI/CD pipelines.
• Soft Skills: Ability to reason through ambiguous requirements and execute quickly without extensive oversight.

Preferred Qualifications

• Infrastructure-as-Code: Experience with Terraform or Pulumi.
• Regulated Industry: Secure coding practices from industries like fintech or life sciences.
• Frontend: Experience with React development.
• Domain Knowledge: Knowledge of regulatory requirements in life sciences or similar.