Staff Backend Engineer
Skills
About the role
Why Weave Exists
At Weave, our mission is to evolve how therapeutic knowledge is captured, transformed, and communicated throughout drug development. We do this by equipping human experts with AI instruments to enable drugs to be brought to patients as rapidly, safely, and inexpensively as possible.
The Weave Platform streamlines regulatory workflows from start to finish by intelligently, creatively, and effectively infusing every step with AI. Together with our customers, Weave is designing and building the AI workbench for the entire therapeutic lifecycle.
The Role & Your Mission
We’re looking for a Staff Backend Engineer, reporting directly to the Backend Engineering Manager, that can navigate between data, AI, and backend systems. Stability, performance, and reliability of the AI system are the core responsibilities. You will be asked to develop novel solutions to customer problems, characterize the results, and deliver the solutions into production. You’ll be successful in this role if you can go from idea, to experiment, to testing, to production without getting lost or stuck at one of the steps. We care more about solving problems than using the latest buzz. We prefer simple, well-tested, stable solutions that are dependable, yet impressive.
What You'll Own
Understanding customer problems and translating that into simple solutions
Working with Product and Design to quickly find solutions
Writing performant, simple code. We run Django + Python + Postgres + Redis.
Managing ongoing conceptual and technical complexity while delivering value on Product projects
What You’ll Bring
Has worked at an early-stage, product-based startup before (What We Offer
🎯 The opportunity to work at a modern, cutting-edge healthcare technology company devoted to meaningful positive impact on human life. Collaboration, velocity, and customer obsession are our baseline, demonstrations of craftsmanship and ROI are celebrated.
🏆 Competitive salary ($200,000 - $250,000) and equity packages.
🧬 Comprehensive health, dental and vision insurance
🏝️ Take care of you and yours: generous PTO, parental leave, OneMedical, TalkSpace, Teladoc.
🚀 Career development opportunities within a company entering a growth phase.
🌎 Hybrid in San Francisco with in-office days Tues/Wed/Thurs and flexibility to work remote Mon/Fri.
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