Staff Software Engineer

About us:

Founded in 2018, Causaly accelerates how humans acquire knowledge and develop insights in Biomedicine. We enable researchers and decision-makers to discover evidence from millions of academic publications, clinical trials, regulatory documents, patents and other data sources… in minutes.

Using our AI technology, we are developing the world’s biggest knowledge platform in Biomedicine powered by a high-precision Knowledge Graph.

We work with some of the world's largest biopharma companies and institutions on use cases spanning Drug Discovery, Safety and Competitive Intelligence. You can read more about how we accelerate knowledge acquisition and improve decision making in our blog posts here: Blog - Causaly

We are backed by top VCs including ICONIQ, Index Ventures, Pentech and Marathon.

About the role:

We are looking for a Staff Fullstack Engineer to work on our API and business services. You will be responsible for designing and building scalable, reliable, and maintainable web applications. You will collaborate with our product and research teams to build and ship new features, contributing to all aspects of the development lifecycle, from requirements gathering to deployment and monitoring.

Minimum Qualifications

· Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics related technical field, or equivalent practical experience

· Significant experience with back-end applications

· Solid understanding of JavaScript

· Familiarity with Node.js

· Experience with TypeScript

· Good knowledge of web architecture (URIs, HTTP, Caching, etc)

· Proficiency in Git version control

· Familiarity with UNIX terminal

· Excellent knowledge of English language (verbal and written)

· Solid understanding of relational databases

Preferred Qualifications · Experience working with Knowledge Graphs and graph databases, such as Neo4J

· Experience working with Full-Text search databases, such as ElasticSearch

· Good understanding of GraphQL

· Experience working with Docker

· Experience working with a functional programming language

· Experience working with AWS or Google Cloud

Technology Stack

The list below is indicative and not exhaustive of the technologies we use at Causaly.

· Node.js

· Typescript

· Git

· ElasticSearch

· Neo4J

· RxJS

· React

· Webpack