Job Title: Senior Software Engineer

Company Name: Postera

Job Url: https://jobs.lever.co/postera/cdcec5f5-974e-45da-a7f1-45d319df1a71?jr_id=698cce5e0f6f7e7a2ce8846a

Job Description: Key Responsibilities:
Technical Leadership and Execution: Lead the architectural design and contribute to the development of scalable web applications and microservices. Deep technical knowledge and professional experience:
·      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.

Mentorship and Collaboration: Play a pivotal role in mentoring engineers, promoting a culture of cross-team collaboration and continuous learning. Candidate will:
·      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.

Projects You May Lead:
Innovative Drug Discovery Projects: Collaborate with scientists and ML experts to tackle challenges directly contributing to the discovery of novel medicines. Specific challenges may include projects such as expanding molecular search to 100B+ scale, designing automated AI-medicinal-chemist workflows, bringing novel ML research to production, and creating tools for real-time data analysis in drug design processes.

Engineering Excellence Initiatives: 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.

Key Requirements:
·      5+ years of experience and a bachelor's degree (or more advanced education) to succeed in this role
·      Experience in systems design and backend web development
·      An interest in technical mentorship and management

Nice to Haves:
Candidate is more likely to succeed in this role if they also have:
·      Expertise in a python based backend web framework (we use Django, for example)
·      Experience integrating ML systems into production services/software
·      Familiarity with container orchestration or workflow systems (like: Kubernetes, Kubeflow, Argo, Airflow)
·      Have some familiarity with data pipelines
·      Experience with designing agentic workflows/context engineering 
·     Past roles with technical mentorship focus or people management responsibilities