Backend Engineer, Ordaōs Bio

• 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

• 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