PostEra is building a modern biopharma, using machine learning to accelerate medicinal chemistry, to develop cures for diseases, faster. We've raised $26M from top investors, secured a $68M NIH partnership to prevent pandemics, and established a $260M partnership with Pfizer. We also launched and help lead the world's largest open-science initiative to find a COVID antiviral; COVID Moonshot.

About the role

PostEra’s product and engineering team is looking for experienced frontend engineers to join us in building the next generation of drug discovery software. We have a talented group of backend and full-stack engineers, and are looking for innovative frontend engineers to help us define and crystalize our vision.
This role offers a unique career opportunity to work at the intersection of cutting-edge software, AI technology, and the world of drug discovery. You will be building tools alongside PostEra internal chemists, as well as chemists external to PostEra.
You’ll get the opportunity to work on exciting projects ranging from node graph editors to feature-rich data visualization interfaces. There is no shortage here of interesting, challenging user interfaces to build out!
Be involved in the design and planning process of new features and feature revamps, to aid in understanding of requirements and timelines for implementation
Write unit tests and integration tests to ensure stability of products and prevent regression of functionality

Desired skills and experience

Bachelor's degree or equivalent industry experience
3+ years work experience building user interfaces and web applications (in frontend or full stack roles)
Proficiency in JavaScript, TypeScript, React, and Redux
Experience working in a continuous-deployment software development environment (i.e. experience with feature flags, trunk-based deployment, and CI testing), and a passion for automated testing
Experience building, delivering, and maintaining new feature interfaces from the bottom-up
Passion for frontend development with a desire to build strong relationships with backend engineers, and uniquely at PostEra: Chemists — the users of our tools

Bonus

Experience in web application design, or UI/UX
Experience building scientific applications
Experience (directly or worked closely with a team using these tools) across our tech-stack: AWS/terraform, Postgres, Rust, Python/Django, TypeScript/React

Salary: 120k - 160k

Equity: 0.1% - 0.20%

Visa Sponsorship: Not at this time

Hiring Manager: Emily Ripka

Visit us at postera.ai

Software Engineer — Frontend