🔬 About Biodock

Biodock is a cutting-edge, seed-stage bio AI startup backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Y Combinator (seed blog post here). We are building the future of AI cloud computing for microscopy images, NGS sequencing data, and more. Advances in our technology translate directly to advances in disease understanding and treatment. We give our product for free to academic scientists as part of our mission to accelerate research around the world.

ℹ️ About the Position

This position says founding engineer. We really mean that. We're a lean and efficient engineering-first team, so you'd be make a massive impact. You'd build critical features from the ground up, and deliver 5x faster than you have at previous jobs. We're looking for someone who is serious about building, and who can wear many hats.

We just hired some amazing engineers - full-stack JS engineer from Facebook and an ML/backend engineer from Pinterest - work with the best!

🔨 What you'll do

Take full ownership of our Biodock's scientific Python backend, all the way to deploys, monitoring, debugging, and overall reliability.
Be exposed to every level of the company, working closely with the CEO to meet business goals and working off customer feedback.

🙋 Who you are

You’re comfortable with exploring and building a mature application in your backend language of choice, with 3+ years of industry experience. Or you're just 3X smarter than others.
You have experience in areas such as distributed systems, image data processing, and performance measurement and optimization.
You have a strong background in computer science with a degree in CS or a related field.
You are passionate about writing high-impact code and are willing to learn new technologies.
You want to work at a top VC-backed company at the earliest stage to help build things from the ground up.
You're flexible, trustworthy, energetic, and a great communicator
You live in or are willing to make the move to Austin, Texas, where our home office is located.
Bonus points for DevOps experience (Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS), ML experience, or full-stack JS experience (React, Node).

💰 Benefits

Competitive pay and equity compensation