Senior Backend Engineer
Top Benefits
About the role
Who you are
- You’ll bring experience writing high-quality, readable, well-tested code
- You will have experience with API design, database fundamentals, and CI/CD pipelines
- You’re entrepreneurial and customer-obsessed
- Most importantly, you’ll bring a track record of working in a fast-moving software development team, exploring new technologies, and solving problems across an entire software stack
- 3+ years of experience with Python with knowledge of software design principles and architectural patterns
- Comfort writing clean, readable, well-tested, maintainable code
- Experience with at least one major cloud provider. GCP preferred
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to effectively influence a cross-functional team
- Experience with building REST APIs and knowledge of best practices
- Knowledge of cloud orchestration technologies like K8s or batch-type systems as well as workflow management tools (Airflow or similar)
- Knowledge of database systems and related concepts: ORMs, schemas, and transactional vs. analytic systems
- Exposure to Terraform or another IaC system, along with DevOps and GitOps
- Knowledge of CI/CD best practices and building CI/CD pipelines
- Domain experience in advanced materials, drug discovery, cheminformatics, or other areas of chemistry or biology, especially experience with AI systems applied to these domains
- Delivering scientific code for R&D projects, especially in the simulation and numerical optimization domains
- HCP systems, GPU programming and optimization
- AI applications in knowledge graphs, AI agents, and multi-agent systems
What the job involves
- SandboxAQ is seeking a backend engineer generalist to contribute to our drug discovery and chemistry simulation platform
- Core application development - we’re building a platform that powers our R&D in life sciences and chemistry simulation. You will contribute to its core functionalities, APIs, and data and control planes
- DevOps - you will contribute to build, testing, and deployment pipelines for a complex set of build artifacts and IaC-managed infrastructure
- User and product work - you will work closely with the researchers that are using the software you’re building and you’ll immediately get to see your impact. You’ll work with the product team to gather and prioritize the feedback
- Contribute to the development of SandboxAQ’s chemistry and life sciences simulation platform
- Work closely with users and members of the product team to measure the impact of the code you develop on users, gather feedback, and iterate on your software
- Participate in planning, design, and sprint ceremony meetings
- Embed closely with R&D teams to assist in delivering project goals and drive adoption of practices and tooling
- Collaborate closely with the product team and internal stakeholders in all phases of software development to validate the solutions you propose and implement
- In collaboration with the rest of the engineering team, build and manage infrastructure for SandboxAQ’s simulation and data platform
- Review code and participate in design and architectural discussions
Benefits
- Stock options
- Unlimated vacation (PTO) and flexible work culture
- Company-wide winter and summer breaks to unwind
- Best-in-class health plans: Medical, dental and orthodontics, and vision
- Family planning and fertility benefits
- Military leave
- 100% paid parental leave
- 401k with company matching
- Education stipends
- Financial wellness resources
About SandboxAQ
In the tech and data intelligence worlds, a sandbox is where innovation is born. It’s a place where the brightest free-thinking minds from across disciplines come together to reimagine what’s possible. A collaborative environment where the whole is infinitely greater than the sum of the parts.
At SandboxAQ, this forward-looking vision is core to everything we do. It’s how we became who we are and it’s how we know our solutions can shift the way your business competes in tomorrow’s marketplace. As the world enters the third quantum revolution, AI + Quantum software will address significant business and scientific challenges. SandboxAQ is a B2B company delivering AI solutions that address some of the world's greatest challenges. The company’s Large Quantitative Models (LQMs) deliver critical advances in life sciences, financial services, navigation, cyber and other sectors. The company emerged from Alphabet Inc. as an independent, growth capital-backed company in 2022, funded by leading investors including T. Rowe Price, Eric Schmidt, Breyer Capital, Guggenheim Partners, Marc Benioff, Thomas Tull, Paladin Capital Group, and others.
Senior Backend Engineer
Top Benefits
About the role
Who you are
- You’ll bring experience writing high-quality, readable, well-tested code
- You will have experience with API design, database fundamentals, and CI/CD pipelines
- You’re entrepreneurial and customer-obsessed
- Most importantly, you’ll bring a track record of working in a fast-moving software development team, exploring new technologies, and solving problems across an entire software stack
- 3+ years of experience with Python with knowledge of software design principles and architectural patterns
- Comfort writing clean, readable, well-tested, maintainable code
- Experience with at least one major cloud provider. GCP preferred
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to effectively influence a cross-functional team
- Experience with building REST APIs and knowledge of best practices
- Knowledge of cloud orchestration technologies like K8s or batch-type systems as well as workflow management tools (Airflow or similar)
- Knowledge of database systems and related concepts: ORMs, schemas, and transactional vs. analytic systems
- Exposure to Terraform or another IaC system, along with DevOps and GitOps
- Knowledge of CI/CD best practices and building CI/CD pipelines
- Domain experience in advanced materials, drug discovery, cheminformatics, or other areas of chemistry or biology, especially experience with AI systems applied to these domains
- Delivering scientific code for R&D projects, especially in the simulation and numerical optimization domains
- HCP systems, GPU programming and optimization
- AI applications in knowledge graphs, AI agents, and multi-agent systems
What the job involves
- SandboxAQ is seeking a backend engineer generalist to contribute to our drug discovery and chemistry simulation platform
- Core application development - we’re building a platform that powers our R&D in life sciences and chemistry simulation. You will contribute to its core functionalities, APIs, and data and control planes
- DevOps - you will contribute to build, testing, and deployment pipelines for a complex set of build artifacts and IaC-managed infrastructure
- User and product work - you will work closely with the researchers that are using the software you’re building and you’ll immediately get to see your impact. You’ll work with the product team to gather and prioritize the feedback
- Contribute to the development of SandboxAQ’s chemistry and life sciences simulation platform
- Work closely with users and members of the product team to measure the impact of the code you develop on users, gather feedback, and iterate on your software
- Participate in planning, design, and sprint ceremony meetings
- Embed closely with R&D teams to assist in delivering project goals and drive adoption of practices and tooling
- Collaborate closely with the product team and internal stakeholders in all phases of software development to validate the solutions you propose and implement
- In collaboration with the rest of the engineering team, build and manage infrastructure for SandboxAQ’s simulation and data platform
- Review code and participate in design and architectural discussions
Benefits
- Stock options
- Unlimated vacation (PTO) and flexible work culture
- Company-wide winter and summer breaks to unwind
- Best-in-class health plans: Medical, dental and orthodontics, and vision
- Family planning and fertility benefits
- Military leave
- 100% paid parental leave
- 401k with company matching
- Education stipends
- Financial wellness resources
About SandboxAQ
In the tech and data intelligence worlds, a sandbox is where innovation is born. It’s a place where the brightest free-thinking minds from across disciplines come together to reimagine what’s possible. A collaborative environment where the whole is infinitely greater than the sum of the parts.
At SandboxAQ, this forward-looking vision is core to everything we do. It’s how we became who we are and it’s how we know our solutions can shift the way your business competes in tomorrow’s marketplace. As the world enters the third quantum revolution, AI + Quantum software will address significant business and scientific challenges. SandboxAQ is a B2B company delivering AI solutions that address some of the world's greatest challenges. The company’s Large Quantitative Models (LQMs) deliver critical advances in life sciences, financial services, navigation, cyber and other sectors. The company emerged from Alphabet Inc. as an independent, growth capital-backed company in 2022, funded by leading investors including T. Rowe Price, Eric Schmidt, Breyer Capital, Guggenheim Partners, Marc Benioff, Thomas Tull, Paladin Capital Group, and others.