Senior Backend Software Engineer, SandboxAQ

• You’ll bring broad experience in CI/CD, infrastructure as code, API design, application code, and databases
• Most importantly, you’ll bring a track record of working in a small, fast-moving software development team, exploring new technologies, and solving problems across an entire software stack
• 5+ years of experience with Python, with strong knowledge of software design principles
• Understanding of database principles and best practices
• Experience with writing and optimizing database queries, graph database experience is a plus
• Strong understanding of web and network fundamentals and experience with designing, building, and testing web APIs
• Knowledge of CI/CD best practices and building CI/CD pipelines
• 3+ years of experience with infrastructure as code management of public cloud providers. Familiar with terraform. GCP preferred
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to effectively influence a cross-functional team

Desirable

• SandboxAQ is seeking a generalist backend software engineer to build infrastructure, development tooling, data pipelines, and application code for AI and simulation in chemistry and life sciences
• In this role, you’ll be crucial in developing tools that empower researchers to explore large amounts of data, configure and monitor large simulations, and train ML models
• You’ll also contribute to improving the developer experience to increase developer velocity
• Own your software components through their entire lifecycle: design, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance from rapid prototyping to production code
• In collaboration with R&D team members, design and implement data models for scientific data and APIs to store and manipulate data across file storage and graph and relational databases
• Contribute to the design and implementation of complex, security-sensitive data processing and storage systems with complex tenancy and data isolation requirements
• Implement APIs and application code that enables users to massively scale chemical simulations and MLOps tasks
• Collaborate closely with the product team and internal stakeholders in all phases of software development to validate the solutions you propose and implement
• In collaboration with the rest of the engineering team, build and manage infrastructure for SandboxAQ’s simulation and data platform
• Enhance CI/CD pipelines to improve developer experience and velocity
• Review code and participate in design and architectural discussions