The Senior Software Engineer will collaborate with teams to build and optimize a robust web application, ensure code quality, and elevate team impact.
At BioRender, we are accelerating the world’s ability to discover, learn, and communicate science faster through visuals. Today, BioRender empowers millions of scientists to create beautiful, accurate biological figures for communication within pharma companies and academic research.
Our vision is to make BioRender the place where humans read biology—translating human and AI-generated data into scientifically accurate, human-understandable visuals. As AI automates large parts of research, BioRender will transform complex data, experimental results, and text inputs into clear, intuitive visuals that scientists, decision-makers, and broader audiences can quickly interpret. Visual communication will be critical to accelerating breakthroughs across academia and industry, and BioRender will bridge the gap between specialized knowledge domains.
What you'll be doing:
- Collaborate Across Teams: Work side-by-side with product managers, designers, and data scientists to shape a roadmap that empowers scientific leaders to collaborate safely and effectively together.
- Own and Improve: Take end-to-end ownership of key components of our codebase, ensuring that features are robust, secure, scalable, and maintainable.
- Drive Creative Problem-Solving: Embrace ambiguity, experiment boldly, and develop creative solutions that push the boundaries of what our product can do.
- Collaborate cross-functionally: Work closely with designers, product managers, and other product engineers to deliver high-quality experiences.
- Uphold engineering excellence: Write testable, well-documented code; participate in code reviews and design critiques; and help evolve best practices.
- Elevate team impact: Bring thoughtful technical insights and a growth mindset to help us continuously improve as a team.
Our ideal fit brings:
- User Focused & Impact Driven: You prioritize delivering real value to users, thoughtfully balancing quality, speed, and the company’s broader goals
- AI Passion: You’re genuinely curious about AI, continuously explore emerging tools, and love applying them in real-world projects.
- Tech Expertise: Proficient in modern JavaScript frameworks (e.g., ReactJS), NodeJS/ExpressJS, cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS). Experience with MongoDB/NoSQL databases for efficient data management
- Strong Communicator & Collaborator: You thrive in a collaborative environment, working closely with others across disciplines to achieve shared objectives.
- Crafting Quality User Experiences: You work closely with design and product to craft delightful user interfaces, leveraging the web platform and using UI frameworks such as React.
- Builder Mentality: With 7+ years of full-stack development experience, you’ve built products from concept to production and are eager to prototype and iterate quickly.
Nice to haves:
- Background in science with an analytical and data-driven approach to problem-solving.
- Passionate mentor with experience guiding and supporting team members.
- Experience with observability and metrics-driven design, utilizing tools like Datadog.
- Enterprise development experience, building scalable and robust systems in a complex environment.
- Experience with AWS and Terraform for cloud infrastructure and automation.
You could be working on problems like:
- Scaling a highly interactive web application: Build and optimize performance for our complex, graphics-heavy canvas, ensuring a smooth and responsive experience.
- Managing and visualizing large volumes of data: Work with rich scientific and usage data to enable insights, improve performance, and support new AI-driven features.
- Evolving a distributed architecture: Design, build, and maintain systems across multiple backend and frontend services, ensuring reliability, scalability, and security as we grow.
- Delivering delightful user experiences: Collaborate with design and product teams to craft intuitive interfaces that make advanced scientific visualization accessible to everyone.
- Bridging human and AI collaboration: Help shape the next generation of tools that translate complex scientific research into human-understandable visuals using AI.
- Building the next generation of BioRender products: Contribute to a growing suite of tools—including our Editor, Graphing, and Presentations products - that empower scientists to communicate and collaborate more effectively than ever before.
Why join us?
- We are mission-driven: we work collaboratively towards our shared vision of improving scientific communication and accelerating scientific discovery. BioRender figures have appeared in more than 54,000 publications!
- BioRender is loved by millions! We have a world-class NPS and a community of loyal fans and users in 200+ countries!
- Our company is backed by top investors and accelerators like Y Combinator, and we are on a growth trajectory comparable to many top-performing SaaS companies
- We’re remote-first with team members across Canada and the U.S., offering you the flexibility to work from anywhere.
BioRender is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
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