Senior Backend Engineer - AI-Driven Drug Design Platform

Jobtailor; California (MO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a Software Engineer to develop backend services and APIs for an agentic drug design platform in a cloud environment. You will integrate machine learning models and scientific tools into robust workflows and contribute to end-to-end production systems.

The role emphasizes scalable design, observability, and collaboration with researchers and engineers to translate scientific needs into practical software solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years (Engineer) / 5+ years (Senior) of professional software engineering experience.
• Proficient in Python and strong fundamentals: API design, testing, data modeling, system design.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain backend services, APIs, and user-facing applications for an agentic drug design platform.
• Integrate ML models, scientific apps, databases, and internal services into end-to-end workflows.
• Implement agentic capabilities: tool execution, workflow orchestration, state management, evaluation, and observability.
• Build software enabling scientists to configure, run, inspect, and reproduce computational molecule design workflows.

Skills

Python

API design

Automated testing

Cloud deployment

Databases

System design

CI/CD

Containers

Observability

Workflow orchestration

Education

Bachelor's in CS

Master's in Software Engineering

Tools

Version Control

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Cloud Platforms

Asynchronous Workflows

Job description

Jobtailor is seeking a Software Engineer to develop backend services and APIs for an agentic drug design platform in a cloud environment. You will integrate machine learning models and scientific tools into robust workflows and contribute to end-to-end production systems.

The role emphasizes scalable design, observability, and collaboration with researchers and engineers to translate scientific needs into practical software solutions.