Staff Software Engineer

Causaly; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in AI-driven scientific research is seeking a Staff Fullstack Engineer to enhance their API and business services. The role involves designing scalable applications and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver impactful features. Ideal candidates will have substantial back-end experience, proficiency in JavaScript, and familiarity with Node.js and TypeScript. The company offers a competitive compensation package and numerous benefits, including private medical insurance and a personal development budget.

Benefits

Competitive compensation package

Private medical insurance

Life insurance (4 x salary)

Personal development budget

Individual wellbeing budget

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Your birthday off!

Qualifications

• Significant experience with back-end applications.
• Solid understanding of JavaScript and relational databases.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable, reliable, and maintainable web applications.
• Collaborate with product and research teams to build and ship new features.

Skills

JavaScript

Git

English

UNIX

Web Architecture

Tools

Node.js

TypeScript

ElasticSearch

Neo4J

Docker

GraphQL

Job description

Founded in 2018, Causaly’s AI platform for enterprise-scale scientific research redefines the limits of human productivity. We give humans a powerful new way to find, visualize and interpret biomedical knowledge and automate critical research workflows, accelerating solutions for some of the greatest health challenges we face.

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.

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.

What we're looking for

• 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

Benefits

Competitive compensation package

???? Private medical insurance

Life insurance (4 x salary)

Personal development budget

Individual wellbeing budget

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Your birthday off!

Potential to have real impact and accelerated career growth as a member of an international team that's building a transformative AI product.

We are on a mission to accelerate scientific breakthroughs for ALL humankind, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and fairly consider qualified candidates without regard to race, ethnic or national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, neurodiversity, genetics, age, religion or belief, marital/civil partnership status, domestic / family status, veteran status or any other difference.