Full-stack Senior Software Engineer
Job Title: Senior Software Engineer
Location: Remote
Contract: 6 months (high possibility of extension)
Start Date: ASAP / Early January 2026
About the Role
We are partnering with an AI-enabled platform designed to support life sciences investors with portfolio optimization, diligence workflows, and value/risk modelling. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build and lead their core platform.
Responsibilities
- End-to-End Platform Ownership: Design, build, and scale a web platform enabling deal teams to explore, upload, and analyze drug assets from discovery through valuation.
- Front end Architecture & UX: Develop intuitive, data-rich interfaces using modern frameworks (React/Next.js preferred) for managing deal pipelines and interpreting LLM-driven insights.
- Backend Services & Orchestration: Implement robust backend services and job orchestration layers (FastAPI, Node.js) for document ingestion, model execution, and results delivery.
- Data Visualization: Create interactive components to visualize scientific assessments, risk analyses, and ML-driven insights.
- API & Integration: Design and maintain clean, scalable APIs between the core LLM orchestration layer and the platform. Collaborate with ML engineers to expose model outputs as user-ready insights.
- Cloud Deployment & Reliability: Deploy and monitor platform services on AWS (or equivalent), ensuring high availability, low latency, and secure handling of sensitive data.
- Collaboration & Product Thinking: Work cross-functionally with ML engineers, product leads, and domain experts to translate scientific and business logic into actionable workflows.
- Continuous Improvement: Champion best practices - automated testing, CI/CD, observability, and modular architecture - while staying current on advances in AI-driven platform development.
Required Skills & Qualifications
- Bachelor's, Master's, or Ph.D. in Computer Science or related field.
- Full-Stack Engineering: Proven experience building modern web applications end-to-end - from performant frontends (React, Next.js) to scalable backends (FastAPI, Node.js).
- Frontend Expertise: Component-based design, state management (Redux, React Query), and visualization frameworks (D3.js, Plotly).
- Backend & API Development: RESTful or GraphQL APIs, authentication/authorization, event-driven workflows, and background jobs.
- Database: Experience with relational (PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, DynamoDB) databases.
- Cloud & DevOps: AWS (or GCP/Azure), Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines.
- Security Awareness: Best practices for secure data handling and compliance.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills; product-oriented mindset.
Nice to Have
- Experience in healthcare, life sciences, or biopharma sectors.
- Familiarity with ML/LLM integration and document ingestion pipelines.
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