Golang / Go Job: Back-end Engineer; First Hire

Back-end Engineer; First Hire at Serotiny

🇺🇸 United States › California › San Francisco   (Posted Sep 13 2018)

About the company
Serotiny designs novel multi-domain biotherapeutic proteins, such as Chimeric Antigen Receptors for use in immunotherapies, CRISPR/Cas9s for use in gene therapies, and other synthetic biology systems for use in a therapeutic (mammalian) context.

Job position
Permanent - Remote work is NOT possible

Job description
This person will lead the development Serotiny’s biologically-aware API, collaborating with biologists to deploy novel creative algorithms useful in the design of new proteins. Serotiny invents novel multi-domain biotherapeutic proteins (proteins like Chimeric Antigen Receptors, CRISPR/Cas9s, etc.).

The digital infrastructure is part of a design/build/test loop that couples a finely tuned software architecture with wet-lab mammalian synthetic biology. Serotiny is looking for our first backend developer who is excited to design novel software architectures for synthetic biology.

Skills & requirements
Role:

Collaborate with biologists to define and design a custom biologically-aware API

Explore machine-learning & other constraint solving strategies on novel data structures

We currently work in Go and Ember

Qualifications:

Experience with Go

Experience with API integration

Experience shipping a digital product

Flexibility and desire to work at the early stages of a startup

Desire to learn some biology/biochemistry is required, and while a plus, an existing knowledge of Biochemistry/Biology is not required.

Apply now!