Senior Software Engineer, Science

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative was founded by Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg in 2015 to help solve some of society’s toughest challenges — from eradicating disease and improving education to addressing the needs of our local communities. Our mission is to build a more inclusive, just, and healthy future for everyone.

The Team

CZI supports the science and technology that will make it possible to cure, prevent, or manage all diseases by the end of this century. While this may seem like an audacious goal, in the last 100 years, biomedical science has made tremendous strides in understanding biological systems, advancing human health, and treating disease. 

We build open-source software tools to accelerate science and generate more accurate and biologically important sources of data. We fund scientific research worldwide to advance the frontiers of knowledge. And we launched a family of institutes to do research that can’t be done in conventional environments. Each aspect is essential to our approach to building for the long term.

CZI’s work in science includes grantmaking programs, open-source software development, and close collaboration with its partner institutes at the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Network. The CZ Biohub Network includes the San Francisco, Chicago, and New York Biohubs as well as the Chan Zuckerberg Imaging Institute. CZI also collaborates with institutional partners like the Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural & Artificial Intelligence at Harvard University. Join us in accelerating science.

The Opportunity

As a Senior Software Engineer of the Science Technology Organization, you would be working with a set of highly motivated and talented engineers to build cloud applications on latest technologies that scientists rely on every day in ways that enable them to draw more meaningful conclusions, or biological insights, more quickly. By making our tools, methods, and quality data sets accessible to a diverse set of scientists, clinicians, and patient communities, we contribute to the rate at which biomedical science can understand and advance human health.

This role will work with Product Managers, UX Designers/Researchers, Application Scientists and other Engineers to design, build and maintain user-facing web applications for SciTech products using  modern technologies and architecture design patterns. 

Responsibilities will span multiple CZI products over time. Projects have included:

• CryoET Data Portal - The portal provides biologists and developers open access to high-quality, standardized, annotated data they can readily use to retrain or develop new annotation models and algorithms
• CZ CELLxGENE - A rich data platform with interfaces that enable any computational or biological expert to understand the molecular function of cells and tissues
• Virtual Cells - A platform for scientists to build, collaborate and contribute to the AI powered virtual cells which would enable scientists to explore the molecular underpinnings of human health and diseases

What You'll Do

• Solve challenging scientific software problems using your engineering skills
• Work in a multi-disciplinary team, with engineers, product managers, applications scientists, data scientists, UX researchers and designers, to define product plans and deliver on roadmaps
• Lead backend engineering design and development for a full stack engineering team focused on delivering intuitive and user-friendly applications.
• Build scalable and distributed software systems and ensure quality in the work we deliver
• Promote engineering excellence through technical leadership, knowledge-sharing and mentorship

What You'll Bring

• 6+ years of experience working in full-stack software development with a focus on building back-ends for web applications using a modern technology stack (Python, Docker, REST, SQL/NOSQL)
• Experience with building, integrating with, and consuming APIs (e.g. GraphQL, REST)
• Experience with databases
• Experience with build/deployment pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions)
• Experience with front-end technologies such as React
• Internal drive for continuous learning and teaching others
• Nice-to-haves:
• Experience with microservices architecture
• Building AI enabled applications

Compensation

The Redwood City, CA base pay range for this role is 190,000.00 - 238,000.00 - 285,000.00 USD Annual. New hires are typically hired into the lower portion of the range, enabling employee growth in the range over time. Actual pla