6 months ago
Remote, CanadaSenior
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers to translate ideas into high-quality product experiences.
- Own and improve key components of the codebase, ensuring features are robust, secure, scalable, and maintainable.
- Build and optimize BioRender’s interactive, graphics-heavy canvas and other scientific visualization experiences.
- Design, build, and maintain frontend and backend services in a distributed architecture.
- Manage and visualize large volumes of scientific and usage data to support insights, performance improvements, and AI-driven features.
- Write testable, well-documented code; participate in code reviews and design critiques; and help evolve engineering best practices.
- Contribute technical insights, mentor team members, and support continuous team improvement.
Requirements
- 5–7+ years of full-stack software engineering experience, including ownership of features from concept through production.
- Proficiency with modern JavaScript frameworks such as ReactJS.
- Experience with NodeJS and ExpressJS.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure such as AWS.
- Experience with MongoDB or NoSQL databases.
- Ability to build quality user interfaces using the web platform and UI frameworks such as React.
- Strong user focus, communication, collaboration, problem-solving, and ownership skills.
- Preferred: a science background and an analytical, data-driven approach to problem-solving.
- Preferred: mentoring experience, observability and metrics-driven design with Datadog, enterprise development experience, and AWS/Terraform infrastructure automation experience.
Benefits
- Remote-first work arrangement with team members across Canada and the U.S., offering flexibility to work from anywhere.
- Mission-driven work focused on improving scientific communication and accelerating scientific discovery.
- Opportunity to contribute to products used by millions of people in more than 200 countries.
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About BioRender
BioRender builds a browser-based design platform that lets scientists create accurate figures, schematics, and posters using a curated library of biological icons and templates. It sells its software as a subscription to researchers, labs, and life-science organizations, with enterprise features for teams and institutions. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Toronto, the privately held company focuses on science communication tools used across academia, biotech, and pharma.