London
Hybrid
GBP 60,000 - 90,000
Full time
Job summary
A pioneering technology company in London seeks a skilled Full Stack Engineer to develop and optimize their innovative platform for controlling biology. The role involves working with advanced technologies and performing across both front-end and back-end systems. Ideal candidates have expertise in TypeScript, JavaScript, and cloud deployment with Kubernetes and AWS, along with a passion for science and technology.
Benefits
Private health insurance
Pension/401(K) contributions
Generous leave policies
Hybrid working
Travel opportunities
Qualifications
- Strong full stack engineer with experience in TypeScript or JavaScript and Python.
- Expert in building responsive and performant web applications.
- Significant experience with relational databases and web security best practices.
- Experience deploying applications using Kubernetes and AWS services.
Responsibilities
- Develop and own both front-end and back-end components of the platform.
- Craft delightful web experiences around proteins.
- Optimise performance across the stack, from UI to database.
- Manage database aspects including schema design and optimisation.
- Write comprehensive tests for the application.
- Collaborate with DevOps on deployments.
- Debug distributed applications in cloud environments.
Skills
TypeScript or JavaScript
Python
Web applications development
Kubernetes
AWS services
Tools
Full Time
We are looking for a highly skilled Full Stack Engineer to strengthen our internal team, and ensure the high quality, reliability, and continuous development of our platform. You will join an interdisciplinary team of machine learners, protein engineers and biologists, jointly working to change the way that we control biology and cure diseases. In your role, you will take broad responsibilities across the platform's codebase, implementing new features, improving performance and contributing to ground breaking science.
At Latent Labs, we are building frontier models that learn the fundamentals of biology. We pursue ambitious goals with curiosity and are committed to scientific excellence. Before building Latent Labs, our team co-developed DeepMind’s Nobel-prize winning AlphaFold, invented latent diffusion, and built pioneering lab data management systems as well as high throughput protein screening platforms. At Latent Labs you will be working with some of the brightest minds in generative AI and biology.
Our team is committed to interdisciplinary exchange, continuous learning and collaboration. Team offsites help us foster a culture of trust across our London and San Francisco sites.
We’re looking for innovators passionate about tackling complex challenges and maximizing positive global impact. Join us on our moonshot mission.
- You are a strong full stack engineer, with TypeScript or JavaScript and Python (our primary language outside of the web).
- You are an expert at building web apps. You have a track record of building responsive and performant public facing web applications, with a solid understanding of HTTP protocols, REST APIs, websockets, DOM manipulation.
- You operate across the stack. You have significant experience working with relational databases, knowledge of web and service authentication and web security best practices.
- You can architect distributed applications. You have hands-on experience deploying to Kubernetes and AWS services.
- You have experience with 3D rendering. You have worked on 3D rendering using WebGL.
- You’re an expert user of UI frameworks. You’ve successfully built apps with React or Tailwind, and understand the inner workings of various frameworks.
- You have experience with molecular or protein visualisation. You’ve built UIs visualising molecules or proteins using Mol*
- You are passionate about model serving. You have some familiarity with MLOps and ML serving.
- Develop and own both front-end and back-end components of our platform.
- Craft the most graphically delightful web experiences around proteins.
- Optimise the performance across the stack, from UI to database.
- Own and manage all aspects of the database, from schema design to, databases optimisation, to warehousing and analytics
- Write and maintain comprehensive tests, including unit, functional and load testing.
- Collaborate with DevOps on deployments.
- Debug distributed applications running in Kubernetes and AWS services.
- Address technical debt and refactor code for maintainability.
We offer strongly competitive compensation and benefits packages, including:
- Private health insurance
- Pension/401(K) contributions
- Generous leave policies (including gender neutral parental leave)
- Hybrid working
- Travel opportunities and more
We also offer a stimulating work environment, and the opportunity to shape the future of synthetic biology through the application of breakthrough generative models.
We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and we are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills.
To apply, please fill in our application form.