Staff Software Engineer

Location: Remote - US; CA

Department: Engineering

Location Type: REMOTE

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

• Build AI-native integrations: Explore and develop how BioRender connects with emerging AI tools and platforms as protocols like MCP continue to evolve.
• Advance our enterprise platform: Own and evolve core capabilities across identity, authorization, provisioning, and enterprise integrations.
• Turn emerging technology into reliable products: Experiment with new AI and agentic capabilities, then strengthen them for secure, robust, and scalable enterprise use.
• Drive technical direction: Bring structure to ambiguous problems and lead complex initiatives from architecture through implementation, launch, and iteration.
• Design and build: Develop scalable full-stack solutions with a strong focus on backend systems, APIs, security, reliability, and performance.
• Raise the engineering bar: Lead technical reviews, mentor other engineers, and improve the architecture and practices that support the team’s long-term growth.

• Staff-level engineering leadership: With 10+ years of software engineering experience, you’ve led complex technical initiatives, influenced architecture, and helped other engineers make better technical decisions.
• Full-lifecycle ownership: You can take an ambiguous problem from early exploration and system design through implementation, production launch, and continued iteration.
• Full-stack expertise with backend depth: You have significant experience building scalable systems, APIs, and platform capabilities, with strong judgment around security, reliability, performance, and maintainability.
• AI-native engineering: You use AI throughout your development workflow and have hands-on experience building LLM-powered products, agentic workflows, MCP integrations, or similar AI-enabled systems.
• Pragmatic technical judgment: You know how to balance long-term architectural investments with speed, customer needs, and measurable product impact.
• Clear communication and collaboration: You bring structure to complex problems, explain technical trade-offs clearly, and build alignment across engineering, product, and design.

• Experience building enterprise SaaS products in an early-stage or high-growth environment.
• Experience with identity and access management, including technologies such as OAuth/OIDC, SSO, SCIM, or role-based authorization.
• Experience designing APIs and third-party integrations within enterprise ecosystems.
• Experience with infrastructure as code, particularly Terraform.

• 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.