Software Engineer

Ketryx; Boston; On-site; PHP 8,000,000 - 9,231,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Generous stock options

Generous PTO

Job summary

Ketryx is hiring a Software Engineer in Boston with a hybrid schedule. You will join a small, motivated team, taking ownership of major UI features and roadmaps.

You will work across frontend and backend areas to deliver polished, accessible interfaces for a regulated software platform. You should bring 3+ years of frontend experience, deep TypeScript and React skills, and a passion for patient-centered software.

Qualifications

• Strong experience building frontend web applications in production environments.
• Fluent English communication in spoken and written form.

Responsibilities

• Engage with customers to gather feedback and shape product features with designers and product managers.
• Build end-to-end features, focusing on UI/UX and frontend/backend integration.
• Collaborate with Boston-based team including Pre-Sales, Sales, Post-Sales, and Marketing to improve the product.
• Create accessible UI components using React (Next.js), Tailwind, and component libraries.
• Establish and maintain a well-documented component library with the design team.
• Refactor UIs and extract reusable components to improve code quality.
• Mentor teammates to build better UI and provide technical support to customers.

Skills

TypeScript

React

React Aria

Tailwind

Next.js

Design System

UI accessibility

Tools

Next.js

Express

SQL

AWS CloudWatch

Sentry

Job description

Job Title: Software Engineer
Employment Status: Full time
Office Hours: Monday - Friday; hybrid schedule
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Compensation: $130,000 - $150,000 base salary + bonus + equity
*compensation dependent on related experience level

About Ketryx:

Ketryx is an AI software platform that enables healthcare life sciences companies to ship life-saving regulated products in weeks instead of years.

Exploding product complexity is burying companies in compliance paperwork and blocking innovation. Our AI software removes this friction, dissolving the historical tradeoff between innovation and compliance, and enables regulated industries to innovate at the pace of modern software.

Since launch, Ketryx already touches the lives of 100M patients and powers all of the world's top five medical device manufacturers. Backed by Lightspeed Ventures, our founders are the former Head of AI at Amgen and CTO of Wolfram Cloud.

Healthcare and life sciences is just the beginning for us. Automotive, aerospace, energy - if it's regulated, it's because society decided it matters. These products move humanity, shape our future, and are safety-critical. Come join us and help build the AI platform to power safe innovation.

About the Role:

Join us in an exciting opportunity as a Software Engineer, where you will become an integral part of an extraordinary team of engineers dedicated to shaping the future of software at Ketryx. In this dynamic role, you will contribute to a small, highly motivated team, actively steering projects to successful completion.

In this role, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the technological landscape, assuming ownership of critical technology decisions and roadmaps. With a self-starting attitude and a robust hands-on mentality, you will be at the forefront of tackling complex problems and driving innovation. Embracing agile working models, you will foster ideation, envision future possibilities, and address detailed improvements concurrently, contributing to Ketryx's commitment to reinventing how medical device manufacturers bring life-saving innovations to market. If you're reliable, detail-oriented, and ready to contribute to a global team, you could be a part of our mission to create safe and reliable medical software!

About You:

The ideal candidate is someone who possesses a deep passion for software and a profound desire to contribute to enhancing patient treatments through technological innovation. Your innate inquisitiveness, coupled with an unwavering enthusiasm for challenging assumptions, sets you apart. With excellent communication skills in both spoken and written English, you thrive in collaborative environments, where the exchange of ideas is paramount.

As a self-starter, you relish the opportunity to excel in a fast-paced startup environment, taking ownership of technology decisions and roadmaps. Your commitment to driving innovation aligns seamlessly with the ethos of our team, making you an invaluable asset in shaping the future of software at Ketryx. You are driven by a genuine love for software, a desire to improve patient outcomes, and the excitement of navigating cutting-edge challenges.

This position will be based in our Boston, Massachusetts office with a hybrid schedule (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday in office, Wednesday WFH option). Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment Visas (including H-1B), F-1 visas, or Optional Practical Training (OPT) status at this time.

Responsibilities:

• Engage in customer interactions, collect feedback to build/design new prototypes and shape, plan and build product features together with our designers, product managers and other stakeholders
• Build features end to end, including backend and database work, with a strong focus on the user interface and user experience
• Collaborate closely with other team members in the Boston office (including Pre-Sales, Sales, Post-Sales, and Marketing) to shape and build product improvements (across the whole product)
• Build accessible user interfaces with React (NextJS), Tailwind, JollyUI (shadcn) and React Aria
• Establish and maintain good UI development practise in our codebase, while shaping out a well-documented component library with our design team
• Refactor and improve existing user interfaces, ideally by extracting and re-using common components
• Support and mentor other team members to help them build better UI
• Provide technical support to customers, collaborating with the Client Operations team

Required Skills:

• Ability to work in a fast moving startup environment, taking ownership of product features and pushing them forward
• 3+ years of full-time industry experience building frontend web applications in a production environment
• Very good understanding of using TypeScript (2+ years) with React (3+ years)
• Good understanding of using React Aria or an equivalent library for building accessible React components
• Experience in either building a design system and/or using an existing component library
• Experience using Tailwind with React

Preferred Skills:

• Good understanding of GraphQL and fragments
• Prior experience with logging tools such as AWS CloudWatch and Sentry
• Prior experience building AI related UI, particularly for large language models (e.g. Chat interfaces, builtin AI interactions)
• Additional full stack experience, e.g. working in a NextJS / express backend, working with a SQL database

Keywords: engineer, fullstack, full-stack, full stack, frontend, front-end, front end, back-end, back end, backend

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation
• Generous stock options possible
• Work in an exciting field with a positive impact on the world
• Opportunity to learn and grow as part of a global team
• Generous PTO for full-time

Ketryx is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances

Ketryx is saving and improving lives by making medical software safe and reliable. We empower software teams building medical applications to create safe, secure, and compliant products used by patients and providers worldwide. We believe that, by automating much of the documentation and quality processes, teams will be able to produce safer and more innovative medical software faster.

Ketryx is at the forefront of helping teams incorporate AI/ML into medical software and that's why we need you!