Backend Engineer, Ordaos Bio
Hourly rate $30-$50 per hour, based on education and prior experience
Machine-driven drug design company
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Machine-driven drug design company
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
Hourly rate $30-$50 per hour, based on education and prior experience
21-100 employees
Company mission
To create bespoke mini-proteins to enable ground-breaking therapeutics.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for someone who is AI-native, deeply familiar with modern AI coding tools and workflows (such as code generation, agentic development, and LLM-augmented tooling) that can significantly accelerate backend development
- The ideal candidate moves fast, leverages automation, and knows how to work efficiently in a rapidly evolving AI-driven environment
- BA or Masters in computer science
- Excellent python programmer as evidenced, for example, through the development of complex fast.api or celery-based web applications
- Proven ability to leverage AI-native development tools (e.g., Cursor, GitHub Copilot, OpenAI API) to dramatically increase coding speed and quality. We’re looking for someone who codes 10x faster by working with AI, not around it
- Have built and scaled applications that rely on cloud services
- Knowledge of common data structures and algorithms
- Capable to design, implement and debug object-oriented python code
- Capable to write maintainable python code for a large-scale code base
- Capable to interface to SQL databases through SQLAlchemy and SQL directly
- Strong knowledge of linux
- Familiarity with git
- Experienced in using third party libraries and APIs
- Full-stack experience is not required
- Excitement for continually monitoring and improving the health of our code base
Desirable
- Experience with Redis
- Experience with Celery
- Experience with Python Kubernetes API
What the job involves
- Ordaos develops state-of the-art machine learning models to create, modify and characterize proteins. These models are then integrated into a web application to be used experimentally by our end users (in-house biologists)
- New requirements from these end users and changes to the models require the infrastructure of the back-end to be extended and changed frequently
- It will be the responsibility of this new back-end engineer to design and implement these changes
- Designing efficient data structures that will hold inputs, intermediate results, and outputs from our machine learning algorithms
- Implementing changes and extensions to our system as required by ML models and end-user requests
- Interacting and collaborating with stakeholders from different backgrounds to completely understand the requirements, and translate their needs into functional code
- Interfacing to multiple databases
- Working with our AI Scientists to implement and productionalize ML-powered features
- Collaborating with other engineers on the team to ensure everyone can ship code quickly and the system is working reliably
Our take
Ordaos is a biotech company that designs mini-proteins to help access life-saving treatments. These mini-proteins ultimately enable targeted therapies to reduce patient suffering by bettering their health, ideally extending their life; a potential revelation for the drug-discovery industry.
Ordaos has unique access to its own Design Engine that uses reinforcement learning to turn human-targeted product criteria into their manufactured mini-proteins, which are more therapeutically effective, cheaper and easier to develop, and less likely to have adverse effects on patients. Branded ‘Ordaos miniPRO’, these proteins deliver the performance of antibodies but are easier to manage and manipulate, hence are available to use on a wide number of bespoke clients with specific targets.
The industry’s trust in Ordaos’ offerings is marked by recent investment that will go towards maximizing drug candidate delivery speed, novelty and the probability of clinical success.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Sep 2024
$3.2m
LATE VC
Aug 2022
$5m
SEED
Total funding: $19.2m
Company benefits
- Competitive healthcare coverage through Blue Cross Blue Shield, dental and vision through Guardian Healthcare.
- 401k (traditional and Roth offered) with 100% match up to first 4% of pay.
- 10 days paid vacation and 5 sick days per year, in addition to 12 company paid holidays or floating holidays.
- Annual budget of $4000 per employee for continuing education.
- Free annual corporate membership to Citibike, Monthly commuter benefits up to $130, Free teletherapy sessions through Talkspace, "Compassionate Leave" policy allowing for 4 weeks of leave for any reason (grief, extended illness, abortion care, etc).
Company HQ
Chelsea, New York, NY
Leadership
David Longo
(CEO)Previously founded Six Dots Sound, The Vocal Company, serving here as Chief Product Manager, and co-founded PDL. Experience as a Social Network Analysis Researcher for Rochester Institute of Technology and an Engineering Specialist for Solutionz.
Ulo Palm
(Board of Directors)Served as Chief Medical Officer for Ordaos until 2021 and current serves in this position for Vaxxinity. Spent 10 years at Schering Plough, 6 years at Novartis, 6 years at Forest Laboratories, one year at Actavis plc, 7 years at TransCelebrate BioPharma and 5 years at Allergan.
Ziwei Liang
(Senior Vice President)Previously served as Director of Research Development at Ordaos until May 2022. Previously worked as a Senior Scientist for GSK and an Immuno-Oncology Scientist for the Tri-Institutional Therapeutics Discovery Institute.
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