Senior Backend Engineer, BioRender
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Scientific diagram creator
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Scientific diagram creator
201-500 employees
Open for applications
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To accelerate the world’s ability to learn, discover and communicate science.
Role
Who you are
- A strong background in backend engineering, with a knack for creating high-performing APIs capable of handling high volumes, especially for search requests
- Experience with large data sets and adept at managing data flow between online and offline systems, with related experience with data event streaming technologies like Kinesis, Kafka, Redpanda, Spark, Flink, etc
- Functional knowledge of productionizing data science models, collaborating closely with data scientists for experimentation and validation
- Expertise with NoSQL databases (like MongoDB), and cloud infrastructure (like AWS)
- A track record of designing systems that are simple, scalable, secure, and performant
- Thrives on enhancing system maintainability for streamlined engagement by other engineers
- Data platform background is a plus
- Familiarity with our chosen tools in the JavaScript ecosystem (Node.js, Express.js, ReactJS) is a plus, but an interest in learning those tools and writing code in TypeScript is a must
What the job involves
- We’re hiring a Senior Backend Engineers on our AI Product & Personalization Team to join our mission in democratizing science communication
- AI Product & Personalization team: The mission of this new team is to dramatically reduce the effort it takes scientists to create figures in BioRender from hours to minutes, saving scientists a billion hours a year annually
- Leveraging AI, this team will help supercharge our vision by empowering every scientist to be an incredible storyteller
- Be a foundational member of a cross-functional team, working closely with product, design, data science, and science experts to achieve our mission
- Build backend services
- Integrate with third-party systems like Algolia (search product) and work with creative team to enrich data sets
- Contribute to process improvements, hiring/onboarding procedures, enhancing product quality, and optimizing our codebase for ease of use and flexibility
- Successfully deliver substantial projects with a high level of quality, typically spanning 3 to 6 months
Our take
One of the best ways for science students and experts to communicate ideas is through diagrams, but not everyone has the illustration skills to pull this off. Whilst computer graphics can be used instead of manually drawing scientific imagery, the lack of a dedicated resource for such images prevents diagrams from being consistent and professional.
Biorender hosts thousands of pre-made icons and templates to be used in the creation of diagrams across over 30 different life science fields. The resources follow consistent quality standards and can be dragged and dropped within the platform to create scientific diagrams, to be used by students, teachers, labs, and educational institutions.
Other visual libraries that include scientific icons and templates exist for the creation of diagrams, but Biorender has presented a novel idea with its exhaustive library, offering to produce missing icons on demand within 48 hours. The entire library is free to use alongside basic design features by individuals for educational purposes, with more advanced features and paid licenses being available for labs and institutions. Its success at visualising complex diagrams and information has helped Biorender achieve several rounds of substantial funding.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Apr 2023
$17.1m
SERIES A
Jan 2018
$0.1m
SEED
Total funding: $17.3m
Company benefits
- Health Benefits: Comprehensive health and dental benefits for you and your family from your first day, including an EAP, HSA, and extended mental health benefits.
- Recharge Long Weekends: In addition to vacation days, our 3 annual BioRender Recharge long weekends offer you a chance to unplug and reset!
- Stock Options: Our employees are also part-owners of BioRender and reap the benefits of their shared hard work.
- Parental Leave Benefits: To help your growing family while you're away from work, we offer a salary top up and even a new baby bonus!
- PAW Perks: Keep your furry family members healthy with our Pet & Animal Wellness veterinary bill reimbursement program.
- Learn and Grow: We'll support your professional growth through regular goal-setting, mentorship, and an annual professional development budget for courses and conferences.
- Team Events: Virtual lunch and learns, show & tells, games, and happy hours help us to stay connected in a remote-first environment.
- In-person Hackathons: Twice per year, we bring our whole team together in Toronto for a week of innovative team work, and cap it off with a company social!
- Work from Anywhere: Our team members have the flexibility to work from another country for up to 3 months per year.
- Flexible Time Off: Our "Flexible Vacation" policy gives you the flexibility to take time off when you need it, so you can unplug, recharge, and come back refreshed.
Company values
- First Principles: We seek to understand the root causes of a problem before moving to action. We do this by repeatedly asking why, until we’ve understood the core of what we’re solving and how to tailor our solutions for our unique context.
- User Obsessed: We believe in understanding our users so deeply that we’re able to create experiences for them that they didn’t know to ask for.
- Debate for Excellence: We push ourselves and each other to reach the best answer together using open debate.
- Drivers, Not Passengers: We take initiative and make progress instead of waiting for others to do it for us. And we create the conditions for others to do the same.
- Simple and Clear: We use simple, clear language especially when we’re communicating complex or technical concepts.
Company HQ
Wellington Place, Toronto, ON
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Leadership
Shiz Aoki
(Co-Founder & CEO)Experience as Lead Science Illustrator for National Geographic. Also Founder and Medical Illustrator for Anatomize Studios Inc.
Katya Shteyn
(Co-Founder & CTO)Experience as Software Engineer for Dropbox and as a Software Engineering Intern for Google.
Ryan Marien
(Co-Founder)Co-Founder of SnapSaves. Also Founded Buytopia.ca.
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