About FlowDeploy
FlowDeploy builds dev tools for bioinformatics, and we're looking for a bioinformatics engineer. Our core product is a platform to run bioinformatics pipelines and manage data.
We're a very small team, and we plan to stay small until we have strong product-market fit. We're funded by Y Combinator and other notable investors, FlowDeploy is generating revenue, and we can keep going for years without raising additional funding.
What we value
- Working autonomously to maximize impact rather than following orders. I think a former or future founder would thrive in this environment.
- Building and running quick experiments, rather than building huge features without user feedback.
- Comfortability with transparency and openness, even if it might help potential competitors in the short term.
What you might work on
Bioinformatics engineering
- Improving our integration with bioinformatics pipelining languages like Nextflow and Snakemake.
- Infrastructure for pipeline execution. This is mostly executed through AWS Batch.
- Supporting our customers and their bioinformatics pipelines.
Typical software engineering
- Our core API. This is currently written with Express/Node with a Postgres database.
- Improving our data management. Most data is stored in S3, with metadata in a Postgres database.
- The React app for launching, monitoring, and sharing bioinformatics pipelines and data.
Requirements
- You have experience with infrastructure for bioinformatics pipelines.
- You have started a project from scratch. That could be a project you're working on now, a company you founded, or a side project that you built.
- You have strong written communication skills.
- You know how to navigate the tension between "moving fast and breaking things" and working towards validated infrastructure.
Nice to have
- You have full-stack experience with relevant tech. For this product, that's Python or similar, React or similar, AWS or similar, and Node.js/Express + Postgres or similar.
- You have worked in both academia and industry.
Compensation
Cash: around $76k-112k.
Equity: 0.75%-1%.
We increase compensation for more experience, since it's reasonable to expect this correlates with an increase in skill.
We pay for 100% of health insurance, which includes location-specific plans from Aetna, BlueCross BlueShield, and Kaiser Permanente. We also offer a mix of other funded (e.g. dental, vision, disability) and available (e.g. hospital, accident) insurance.
If you're working in-person: we have a great office space with free snacks, drinks, and lunch.
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