Senior Backend Engineer

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Senior Backend Engineer evolving Genestack’s high-load bioinformatics platform for pharmaceutical and research users. Designing APIs, infrastructure, and data systems for AI/ML-driven drug discovery.

Responsibilities:

  • Take end-to-end ownership of backend features, from refining requirements with Product to delivering robust production-ready solutions
  • Proactively challenge and improve product and technical decisions
  • Evolve the system core, APIs, and data layer
  • Optimize performance, scalability, and reliability under demanding workloads
  • Balance fast product increments with sustainable technical architecture
  • Help shape APIs and infrastructure for current and future AI-driven workloads
  • Adapt and evolve APIs to meet AI/ML-driven use cases
  • Work on a product handling petabytes of biological data
  • Influence long-term technical decisions and product architecture

Requirements:

  • 8+ years of experience in software engineering, with a strong backend focus
  • Deep understanding of CS fundamentals (OOP, algorithms, data structures)
  • Extensive experience with data storages: RDBMS, columnar databases, search engines and other NoSQL technologies
  • Proven experience in agentic engineering
  • Strong proficiency in Java and/or Kotlin
  • Experience with system-level refactoring
  • Strong experience with Spring and the Spring ecosystem
  • Ability to detect and resolve performance bottlenecks
  • Ability to learn quickly in complex domains
  • Interest in life sciences, data science, and ML/AI applications
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills
  • Fluent English
  • Knowledge of biology and genetics is nice to have
  • Experience with profiling, tracing, and performance tools is nice to have
  • Familiarity with Python is nice to have

Benefits:

  • Fully paid sick leaves
  • Onboarding and domain training for newcomers
  • Flexible work schedule
  • International team of professionals