Senior Engineering Manager, Formation Bio
$211-260k
+ Equity
End-to-end medical trial solutions
Open for applications
End-to-end medical trial solutions
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$211-260k
+ Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To bring new treatments to patients faster and more efficiently.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate is passionate about developing quality products, enabling their team to be the best version of themselves, and committed to continuous improvement
- Minimum of 4 years of experience in leading & growing software engineering teams
- Minimum of 6 years of experience in building products in the software industry using modern technologies
- Proven ability to thrive in ambiguous and rapidly-changing environments, with a proven track record of contributing significantly to the successful launch and scaling of new and innovative products, especially in a 0-1 setting
- Proven ability to coach and grow engineers at different levels
- Exceptional collaboration and communication skills to effectively engage and work along stakeholders from diverse disciplines and varying levels of technical expertise
- Ideally, adept at translating complex technical concepts into clear, actionable insights for all audiences
- Experience with AI technologies, particularly in LLMs and machine learning
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and the full end-to-end process of modern software deployment (e.g., containerization, CI/CD)
- Experience in the pharmaceutical or biotech industry is a plus, but not required
What the job involves
- As a Senior Engineering Manager on our Product Engineering teams, you will be accountable for Engineering strategy, design, development, and implementation of one or more of our teams that are responsible for building innovative software products leveraging emerging technologies
- Partner with Product to align vision, strategy, and roadmap for your teams
- Drive the execution of the roadmap by working closely with cross-functional teams
- Ensure that products are built to be reliable and easy to maintain
- Identify and mitigate technical risks and make sound decisions to ensure that the product is delivered on time and within budget
- Mentor, grow, and lead engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning
- Partner with senior leadership to evolve organizational structure
- Attract, retain & grow top technical talent
- Develop and implement best practices that drive efficiency, quality, and innovation within your teams
- Optimize Engineering processes to achieve high levels of productivity and quality while reducing cycle time and technical debt for your squad and TrialSpark's data users
- Work with other teams such as Data Platform & Site Reliability Engineering to establish and improve the software development and deployment lifecycle
- Partner with senior engineering leadership to align vision and strategy for the Engineering org
Our take
Clinical drug trials are lengthy and expensive, delaying the supply of vital new drugs to patients and costing lives. For Formation Bio, this is an efficiency issue - one which it hopes to solve with its end-to-end automation solution.
According to the company, its approach has teams running medical trials twice as fast and at half the cost. It's worked so well, in fact, that Formation Bio is looking to take drug development in-house.
Now a Unicorn, the company has secured heavyweights like Pfizer, Sanofi, Novartis and 23andMe as partners. Precisely how it will fare in the Big Pharma ecosystem remains to be seen, but the promise of cheaper drugs and faster innovation is certainly causing a stir in a market that has historically been resistant to both.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jun 2024
$372m
SERIES D
Sep 2021
$156m
SERIES C
Total funding: $530.3m
Company values
- Think in first principles
- Be a scientist
- Deliver care
- Champion the mission
Company HQ
Midtown South, New York, NY
Articles
Leadership
Benjamine Liu
(CEO)Worked as a computational biologist at various Neurology departments, following a D.Phil in computational Biology and Psychiatry at Oxford. They are also an Advisor at Harvard Business School.
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