Product Engineer, Technical Lead Manager

About Plasmidsaurus

Plasmidsaurus is on a mission to accelerate new cures and promote a healthier planet by unlocking a new level of productivity for scientists who use DNA tools to bring their ideas to life. Our DNA sequencing tools are used daily by thousands of innovators, including Nobel prize winners, dynamic biotech startups, research labs, and DIY biohackers. Our global network of labs operates day and night to enable world-changing discoveries. In 2024, we saved these scientists 2 million hours of time, radically accelerating their research. Every team member at Plasmidsaurus plays a crucial role in driving forward the future of biotech research.

About Plasmidsaurus

Plasmidsaurus is on a mission to accelerate new cures and promote a healthier planet by unlocking a new level of productivity for scientists who use DNA tools to bring their ideas to life. Our DNA sequencing tools are used daily by thousands of innovators, including Nobel prize winners, dynamic biotech startups, research labs, and DIY biohackers. Our global network of labs operates day and night to enable world-changing discoveries. In 2024, we’re going to save these scientists 2 million hours of time, radically accelerating their research. Every team member at Plasmidsaurus plays a crucial role in driving forward the future of biotech research.

DNA sequencing is fundamental to a biologist’s daily workflow. Just like software engineers program computers in code, biologists program life in DNA - they do this every day. However, every time a biologist updates their DNA (via a chemical process), they have to sequence the DNA to make sure the update works. That’s where we come in!

We sequence DNA overnight (and same-day). Our global logistics network transports tubes of DNA from a scientist’s hand from anywhere in the world to one of our 10 labs in under 12 hours. Our technicians come in the evening/sunrise to load our robots which process the samples. By sunrise, the scientists have their results and begin their next round of experiments. We made this process 30 times cheaper and 10 times faster.

Scientists love this.

Position Overview

Plasmidsaurus has already revolutionized the scientific protocol of DNA sequencing - the next step is to create tools to enable intuitive analysis of their data. You'll build and own highly interactive web apps that allow scientists to visualize their DNA sequencing results, quickly identify mutations, and discover new insights about their experiments as part of their world-changing research. Users have shared they're ecstatic for the features you'll be working on. Here’s an example

After integrating with the team as a core contributor, you’ll grow into a leadership role, guiding the technical architecture of our data visualization stack, overall product development, and direction of the team. You’ll lean on your experience building commercial scale customer-facing web apps to accelerate how scientists develop findings from their biological data.

Culture

You are someone who:

• Enjoys high agency and high ownership work

• Loves talking to customers to identify the right problem to solve

• Can drive the roadmap to build a cohesive product ecosystem

• Can lead technical projects from idea to production independently

• Enjoys wearing the engineer, manager, and product manager hats

• Is excited to make an impact on the scientific community, enabling the next generation of medicines, biotechnology, and even plant-based-meats!

• Is a life-long learner

• Is excited to work in a tight-knit fast-paced environment with a motivated team

• Values clear communication and helping other learn new skills

Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science, or relevant work experience

• 7+ years of industry experience building intuitive web frontends

• 3+ years of experience of strong technical leadership, guiding a team to develop customer-facing web application products

• Deep experience with modern JS frameworks like React, Vue, or Svelte

• Experience with full-stack Python frameworks like Flask or Django

• Experience with REST API best practices and microservices architecture

• Familiarity with SQL and data modeling in relational databases

• (Preferred) Deep experience with custom/performant data visualization in D3js, Deck.gl, and similar frameworks

• (Preferred) Experience interfacing frontend visualization with compute-intensive operations compiled to web assembly

• (Preferred) Deep interest in learning about biotechnology and DNA sequence visualization

Why Plasmidsaurus?

• IMPACT: Your work will directly contribute to accelerating biotech research. This research is one of humanity’s most powerful tools for stopping climate change and developing novel therapies.

• INNOVATION: Work on the cutting edge of biotech and software, introducing indispensable tools to top-tier researchers.

• COMMUNITY: Join a passionate, scrappy team that values close, interactive relationships with our customers and each other.

We encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn't perfectly align with the job description as we seek out diverse and creative perspectives. Team members who love to learn and collaborate in an inclusive environment will thrive with us. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. If you need additional accommodations to feel comfortable during your interview process, please let us know at [email protected].