Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Platform

About Deep Origin

Led by Michael Antonov, the co-founder of Oculus, and well-funded by Formic Ventures, Deep Origin is a startup poised to reinvent the way scientists work and life science innovations come to life. We see a future largely free of diseases with a 150 year lifespan being a norm. To get there, we are building an operating system for science, enabling scientists to be more productive and to bring tomorrow's ideas to life quickly and at a reasonable cost.

Job summary

The Chief Technology Officer of Platform will be a key member of the executive team, responsible for building our platform and working with our product and scientific teams to use the platform to provide sophisticated scientific capabilities to our users. The CTO will be responsible for designing the architecture, building a team, and taking our vision from concept to customer:

• Lead the design and construction of our platform
• Design the platform to scale to hundreds of thousands of users; tens of thousands of data sets and petabytes of data.
• Build and lead a team of frontend and backend engineers to implement and deploy our platform.
• Establish and lead best practices for development, testing, documentation, and security.

Requirements

Must haves

• Hands-on experience with building complex software products from scratch and deploying them at scale
• Experience working in early stage startups
• Strong hands-on knowledge of our technical stack
  • Backend logic: TypeScript with Node.js
  • Frontend display and logic: HTML, SASS, TypeScript, and React
  • Databases: relational (Postgres, MySQL or similar) and key-value store (e.g. MongoDB)
  • Backend services: tools such as Kafka
  • Deployment: Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure such as AWS
  • DevOps such as GitHub actions
• Understanding of best practices for security
• Self-starter with a great ability to execute
• Excellent organizational, communication, and leadership skills
• Ability to manage multiple simultaneous projects
• Experience building and growing teams
• Passion for working with people

Location

Our office is located in South San Francisco, CA. The employee will work onsite at least three days a week. We will reimburse the employee for relocation.

Travel

The employee will occasionally travel to meet with customers and partners around the world.

Benefits

This position offers competitive salary, benefits, and equity.