Staff/Senior Full Stack Software Engineer

Your work will change lives. Including your own. 

At Recursion we combine experimental biology, automation, and artificial intelligence to quickly and efficiently identify treatments for human diseases. Today we have four drugs in the clinic, and in the next 10 years we hope to discover 100 more. We are transforming drug discovery into a data science problem, and to do that we are building a platform for rapid biological experimentation, data generation, automated analysis, model training, and prediction.

The Impact You’ll Make

• Build production-grade tools and APIs to query petabytes of biological data and AI models. You will play a role in building the tooling that gets our proprietary data and technologies from the lab to our partner-facing apps automatically and efficiently in the context of a production-grade cloud product.
• Create delightful user experiences meeting drug discovery scientists' needs. Our tools need to help scientists generate disease treatment hypotheses without getting in the way. You will partner with scientists to understand their workflows and build world-class data-centric user experiences enabling them to work as efficiently as possible
• Lead the way in designing, architecting and implementing the next generation of LLM-enabled software for drug discovery. We believe LLMs are powerful reasoning engines that will drastically change the way companies build and deliver software. You will embrace this paradigm shift and be at the forefront of the large language models revolution. On top of solving the traditional technical challenges of building a product on the cloud, you will be faced with modern technical problems in embedding AI-first and LLM-first features in our platform
• Every Recursion engineer acts as a mentor, coach, and sponsor. You will share your technical knowledge and experiences, increasing learning, growth, and impact within and beyond your team

Location: This is a hybrid position based out of one of our offices in Salt Lake City, UT or Toronto, ON

The Experience You’ll Need:

• Experience programming professionally, in projects with significant ambiguity and technical complexity, ideally spanning multiple production systems and involving diverse technologies.
• Experience being resourceful and collaborative in order to complete large projects.
• A people-first mindset. We work closely with people from a wide variety of professional and academic disciplines. Despite the deadlines, we always prioritize supporting our coworkers in their growth and experience.
• Excitement to learn parts of our tech stack that you might not already know. Our current tech stack includes Python, Go, Django, FastAPI, Typescript, NextJS, and React. We also work a lot with PostgreSQL, Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, and on cloud services provided by Google Cloud Platform.
• Solid computer science fundamentals, e.g. data structures, RESTful APIs, frontend development, etc
• A background in biology is not necessary, but an intellectual curiosity is a must!

The Team You’ll Join 

We have multiple teams that are in need of Full Stack Engineers. You’re welcome to call out a specific team that might be of interest to you, but you’ll be considered for all three by default. 

Biology Stream Aligned Team, Bio SAT (Staff Full Stack)

This nimble team of engineers develop workflows and modules for Recursion’s original platform, which has generated billions of Biological Data points. This includes creating reusable, composable solutions for designing, tracking, and executing experiments, transmitting and archiving the resulting data, and programmatically running analysis code against our exponentially increasing Biological Data points. This is an ideal team for someone who isn’t fazed by ambiguity and is eager to tackle challenging issues. It’s a perfect environment for those who adapt easily to change and strive in dynamic situations. If working cross-functionally with peers across different areas appeals to you, you’ll fit right in.

Translation Stream Aligned Team, TSAT (Staff Full Stack or Sr. Full Stack)

TSAT is a skeleton crew stemming from the Vium acquisition in 2020. We are a hybrid team of six consisting of people in Engineering and Data. TSAT focuses on scaling and automating mice and rat experiments and generating insights for scientists to predict clinically significant outcomes. As a member of this team, you can expect to make technical contributions across front end (15%), backend (40%), infrastructure (30%), and IoT (15%) and collaborate with our stakeholders in the Recursion Vivarium in Calif