Senior Software Engineer

BigHat Biosciences is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join their engineering team. This role involves owning a significant area of their platform, leading epics end-to-end, and shaping the architecture and engineering practices.

The ideal candidate will have 7+ years of professional software engineering experience building and owning production systems, or 5+ years of experience with prior experience in biotech, life sciences, laboratory environments, or scientific software.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead projects end-to-end, from PRD through implementation, testing, release, and validation against the customer success metric.
• Own one or more major areas of BigHat's internally developed, cloud-based platform as a subject-matter expert.
• Take on net-new, 0-to-1 work from specification, designing interactions between features and the infrastructure that supports them.
• Collaborate with scientists and product owners to translate real-world lab workflows into reliable software.
• Operate and run engineering processes, including PRD reviews, stand-ups, PR approvals, and other team ceremonies.
• Own the quality and outcomes of your work and your epics, including debugging, test failures, and production issues.
• Drive technical depth across the codebase, infrastructure, and systems, and actively improve the design and architectural principles the team works within.
• Design and build high-quality software across front-end (UI/UX) and back-end systems.
• Lead and review technical designs and PRDs; contribute architectural direction and surface risks and tradeoffs early.
• Write, maintain, and raise the bar on automated testing to ensure correctness, reliability, and maintainability.
• Run code reviews as a routine approver, providing thoughtful, high-leverage feedback that develops other engineers.
• Diagnose and resolve complex issues across production and development environments.
• Improve internal engineering practices, documentation, tooling, and architecture.

Benefits:

• Salary estimated for this position is $198,000 - $215,000 + bonus + options + benefits.
• Range of health insurance plan options through Anthem and Kaiser.
• Dental, and vision coverage through Guardian.
• Additional well-being benefits through Nayya, OneMedical, Wagmo, Rula, and more.
• 401(k) with company match.
• DTO, two weeks of company-wide shutdown, and 12 company holidays.
• Paid parental leave.