Backend Engineer
Why Weave Exists
At Weave, our mission is to evolve how therapeutic knowledge is communicated, transformed, and worked upon. We are doing so by equipping human minds with AI instruments to enable the best drugs to be brought to patients as rapidly, safely, and inexpensively as possible.
The Weave Platform streamlines regulatory submission preparation and lifecycle management by imbuing most aspects of the workflow with AI, including data organization, drafting, review, and verification. Weave is building the foundation for a singular AI workbench for the entire therapeutic lifecycle.
The Role & Your Mission
We’re looking for a Backend Engineer, reporting directly to the Chief Technology Officer, that can navigate between data, AI, and backend systems. Stability, performance, and reliability of the AI system are the core responsibilities. You will be asked to develop novel solutions to customer problems, characterize the results, and deliver the solutions into production. You’ll be successful in this role if you can go from idea, to experiment, to testing, to production without getting lost or stuck at one of the steps. We care more about solving problems than using the latest buzz. We prefer simple, well-tested, stable solutions that are dependable, yet impressive.
What You'll Own
- Understanding customer problems and translating that into simple solutions
- Working with Product and Design to quickly find solutions
- Writing performant, simple code. We run Django + Python + Postgres + Redis.
- Managing ongoing conceptual and technical complexity while delivering value on Product projects
What You’ll Bring
- Has worked at an early-stage, product-based startup before (<50 people)
- Used Django in a production environment
- Used of LLMs in production
- Directly interacting with LLMs without abstraction libraries
- Humble, hungry, and smart
- Able to move quickly on tasks while producing high-quality results
- Pragmatic, analytical thinker. Efficient decision maker
- Bonus: Worked on a product in a regulated domain or where data privacy + security were essential
What We Offer
🎯 The opportunity to work at a modern, cutting-edge healthcare technology company devoted to meaningful positive impact on human life. Collaboration, velocity, and customer obsession are our baseline, demonstrations of craftsmanship and ROI are celebrated.
🏆 Competitive salary and equity packages.
🧬 Comprehensive health, dental and vision insurance
🏝️ Take care of you and yours: generous PTO, parental leave, OneMedical, TalkSpace, Teladoc.
🚀 Career development opportunities within a company entering a growth phase.
🌎 This position is based in San Francisco with flexibility to occasionally work remote.
Equal Opportunity Employer: We are committed to creating a diverse environment and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
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