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Location: San Francisco, CA - on-site 5 days/week (flexible), near Montgomery BART. Visa: open to transfers (OPT, H1B).

About this role

Senior/Staff Full Stack Engineer with 10+ YOE to join Mithrl's engineering team: a builder excited to create foundational systems and have meaningful influence on the technology as Mithrl accelerates drug discovery. Top-priority hire driven by hypergrowth and surging enterprise demand.

Responsibilities

Build new product features and systems from scratch across frontend and backend, expanding Mithrl's platform for world-class researchers
Design, build, and own scalable backend services, APIs, and data pipelines across the application, identity, data storage, and ML layers
Work in fast-moving sprint cycles, contributing to production within your first few weeks
Collaborate with engineers, PMs, designers, and AI scientists to turn complex scientific workflows into intuitive, high-performance software
Own features end-to-end from development through production deployment, iteration, and scale for researchers at leading pharma and biotech organizations
Tech stack
Python, Django, React, GraphQL, AWS, GCP, Azure, SQL, REST APIs
About Mithrl
AI Co-Scientist / scientific decision engine for pharma and biotech R&D: turns unstructured biological data (omics, sequencing) into analysis, novel targets and patent-ready reports in minutes, powered by a proprietary biological knowledge graph. 12x YoY revenue growth; customers include J&J, Roche, Eli Lilly, AstraZeneca and Siemens. ~25 people in person in SF; founded 2023; $80M total funding (Series A led by Obvious Ventures). Engineering ~10, growing to 30 this year.
10+ years of professional full-stack or backend engineering (excluding internships)
Builder excited to create foundational systems from scratch
Python/Django, React, GraphQL, SQL, REST APIs; AWS/GCP/Azure
5 days in-person in San Francisco (Montgomery BART; flexible)
No biology background needed

Which skills does this role require?

PythonDjangoReactGraphQLSQLRest ApisAwsGcpAzureFull Stack DevelopmentBackend EngineeringData PipelinesSystem ArchitectureCloud InfrastructureApi DesignFull Stack EngineerAWSGCPDrug DiscoveryBiotechPharmaBiological Knowledge GraphOmicsSequencingBackend ServicesIdentity ManagementMachine LearningSoftware EngineeringScalable SystemsSprint CyclesProduction DeploymentSeries AREST APIs

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