Staff Backend Engineer

Weave • San Francisco, CA

1d • $200,000 - $250,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

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.
We’re looking for a Senior 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.

Requirements

• Has worked at an early-stage, product-based startup before (<50 people)
• 8 years of experience or more of Django in a production environment
• Used of LLMs in production
• Directly interacting with LLMs without abstraction libraries
• Humble, hungry, and smart
• Able to move quickly on tasks while producing high-quality results
• Pragmatic, analytical thinker. Efficient decision maker

Nice To Haves

• Worked on a product in a regulated domain or where data privacy + security were essential
• BS in Computer Science or similar field preferred

Responsibilities

• 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

Benefits

• 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.
• This position is based in San Francisco with flexibility to occasionally work remote.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level