PostEra · 3 weeks ago
Lead Software Engineer, Platform
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$190K/yr - $220K/yr
5+ years expPostEra is committed to delivering therapies to patients through its drug discovery platform, Proton. The Lead Software Engineer will shape systems design decisions, lead technical projects, and mentor engineers while focusing on scalable web applications and microservices.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)BiotechnologyMachine LearningPharmaceuticalTherapeutics
Responsibilities
Lead the architectural design and contribute to the development of scalable web applications and microservices
Be instrumental in facilitating knowledge sharing sessions, code reviews, and defining team-wide technical standards
Nurture the technical growth of our team members, while directly managing a small team of direct reports, with the possibility of growing into a larger people leadership role
Collaborate with scientists and ML experts to tackle challenges directly contributing to the discovery of novel medicines
Drive projects focused on enhancing our engineering framework such as architecting backend interactions with ML systems, improving our CI/CD processes, setting new standards for code quality and testing, incorporating AI tooling into our development processes, and implementing monitoring solutions that offer real-time insights into our applications' performance
Qualification
Required
5+ years of experience and a bachelor's degree (or more advanced education) to succeed in this role
Experience in systems design and backend web development
An interest in technical mentorship and management
Preferred
Expertise in a python based backend web framework (we use Django, for example)
Experience integrating ML systems into production services/software
Familiarity with container orchestration or workflow systems (like: Kubernetes, Kubeflow, Argo, Airflow)
Have some familiarity with data pipelines
Experience with designing agentic workflows/context engineering
Past roles with technical mentorship focus or people management responsibilities
Company
PostEra
PostEra is building a modern 21st century biopharma. We're using our advances in machine learning to bring more cures to patients
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$26.45MKey Investors
National Institutes of HealthClermont GroupY Combinator
2022-05-18Grant
2022-01-11Series A· $24M
2020-03-30Seed· $2.3M
Leadership Team
Aaron Morris
CEO & Co-Founder
Recent News
Morningstar.com
2025-10-21
Company data provided by crunchbase