What is a day in the life of an Entry-Level Software Engineer?
- Primarily engage in back-end development with potential for some front-end development.
- Contribute to both maintenance (30-40%) and new feature development (60-70%).
- Participate in two-week sprints using ClickUp for project management.
- Collaborate with the product managers on sprint planning.
- Contribute to technical and product roadmaps.
- Have opportunities to learn and work with new technologies
What will I need to thrive in this role?
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a focus on back-end development.
- Proficiency in Ruby on Rails; experience with Python, SQL, Go, ReactJS, or Java is a plus.
- Proven ability to contribute to development projects and work independently with minimal supervision.
- Experience with leveraging AI tools and technologies to enhance software development processes, improve code quality, and drive innovative solutions.
- Strong engineering fundamentals.
- Adaptability and a desire to learn.
What qualities are we looking for?
- Smart.
- Driven.
- Collaborative.
- Innovative.
What does high performance look like?
- You are seen and trusted as a technical expert at Pattern, driving new solutions and efficiencies through innovative software development.
- Your work doesn't stop at code delivery; you consider the entire product lifecycle and collaborate across functions to ensure maximum value.
- You care about code quality and collaborate with other stakeholders to ensure our solutions resonate with business needs.
- All solutions have been tested and proven for impact and cost optimization.
We are looking for individuals who are:
- Game Changers- A game changer is someone who looks at problems with an open mind and shares new ideas with team members, regularly reassesses existing plans and attaches a realistic timeline to goals, makes profitable, productive, and innovative contributions, and actively pursues improvements to Pattern’s processes and outcomes.
- Data Fanatics- A data fanatic is someone who recognizes problems and seeks to understand them through data, draws unbiased conclusions based on data that lead to actionable solutions, and continues to track the effects of the solutions using data.
- Partner Obsessed- An individual who is partner obsessed clearly explains the status of projects to partners and relies on constructive feedback, actively listens to partner’s expectations, and delivers results that exceed them, prioritizes the needs of your partners, and takes the time to create a personable experience for those interacting with Pattern.
- Team of Doers- Someone who is a part of a team of doers uplifts team members and recognizes their specific contributions, takes initiative to help in any circumstance, actively contributes to supporting improvements, and holds themselves accountable to the team as well as to partners.
What is the hiring process?
- An initial phone interview with Pattern's talent acquisition team
- Technical interview with Pattern’s Director of Engineering
- Career timeline interview with another lead of Engineering
- Reference checks
- Executive review
- Offer
How can I stand out as an applicant?
- Be prepared to talk about professional accomplishments with specific examples.
- Be ready to talk about how you can add value and be the best addition to the team.
- Focus on mentioning how you would be partner-obsessed at Pattern.
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What We Do
Tackling a global health threat like antimicrobial resistance is not for the faint of heart, but the experienced and innovative team at Pattern Bioscience is on a mission to do it.
Each year, drug-resistant bacterial infections claim more than a million lives globally and cost our healthcare system billions of dollars. Traditional diagnostic methods for bacterial infections remain rooted in slow, cumbersome, decades-old technology that contributes to sub-optimal treatment and the misuse of broad-spectrum antibiotics.
The Pattern system is different. We’re developing the world’s only culture-free, rapid diagnostic technology that will reduce the time needed for pathogen identification (ID) and antibiotic susceptibility test (AST) results from days to hours. Our technology combines single-cell analysis of microorganisms with machine learning tools to deliver fast, clinically actionable information.
The result? Patients get the right treatment faster, to save lives, prevent side effects and reduce healthcare costs.








