Senior Backend Engineer

Summary

Join SandboxAQ, a high-growth company delivering AI solutions, as a backend engineer generalist contributing to our drug discovery and chemistry simulation platform. Contribute to core application development, building platform functionalities, APIs, and data and control planes. Participate in DevOps, contributing to build, testing, and deployment pipelines. Collaborate closely with researchers and the product team to gather feedback and prioritize improvements. You will bring experience writing high-quality, well-tested code, API design, database fundamentals, and CI/CD pipelines. The role requires working in a fast-moving team, exploring new technologies, and solving problems across the software stack. SandboxAQ offers competitive salaries, stock options, generous learning opportunities, comprehensive benefits, and a commitment to employee growth.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience with Python with knowledge of software design principles and architectural patterns
• Comfort writing clean, readable, well-tested, maintainable code
• Experience with at least one major cloud provider. GCP preferred
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to effectively influence a cross-functional team
• Experience with building REST APIs and knowledge of best practices
• Knowledge of cloud orchestration technologies like K8s or batch-type systems as well as workflow management tools (Airflow or similar)
• Knowledge of database systems and related concepts: ORMs, schemas, and transactional vs. analytic systems
• Exposure to Terraform or another IaC system, along with DevOps and GitOps
• Knowledge of CI/CD best practices and building CI/CD pipelines

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development of SandboxAQ’s chemistry and life sciences simulation platform
• Work closely with users and members of the product team to measure the impact of the code you develop on users, gather feedback, and iterate on your software
• Participate in planning, design, and sprint ceremony meetings
• Embed closely with R&D teams to assist in delivering project goals and drive adoption of practices and tooling
• Collaborate closely with the product team and internal stakeholders in all phases of software development to validate the solutions you propose and implement
• In collaboration with the rest of the engineering team, build and manage infrastructure for SandboxAQ’s simulation and data platform
• Review code and participate in design and architectural discussions

Preferred Qualifications

• Domain experience in advanced materials, drug discovery, cheminformatics, or other areas of chemistry or biology, especially experience with AI systems applied to these domains
• Delivering scientific code for R&D projects, especially in the simulation and numerical optimization domains
• HCP systems, GPU programming and optimization
• AI applications in knowledge graphs, AI agents, and multi-agent systems

Benefits

• Medical/dental/vision
• Family planning/fertility
• PTO (summer and winter breaks)
• Financial wellness resources
• 401(k) plans
• Competitive salaries
• Stock options
• Generous learning opportunities