Senior Software Engineer

BioRender; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

BioRender is seeking a senior full-stack engineer to help accelerate science communication. You will partner with product managers, designers, and engineers to ship high-quality features across the frontend (React) and backend (Node.js, Express) stacks.

You’ll own major components, design scalable solutions, and advocate for testing and code quality in a remote, collaborative environment across the US and Canada.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of full-stack software engineering experience.
• Experience building scalable web apps and APIs.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers to translate ideas into high-quality product experiences.
• Own and improve key components of the codebase, ensuring robustness, security, and maintainability.
• Drive creative problem-solving, embrace ambiguity, and develop innovative solutions for the product.
• Write testable, well-documented code; participate in code reviews and design critiques; help evolve best practices.
• Elevate team impact with thoughtful technical insights and a growth mindset.

Skills

Full-stack development

ReactJS

NodeJS/ExpressJS

AWS

MongoDB/NoSQL

Team collaboration

Mentorship

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Git

Job description

At BioRender, we’re on a mission to accelerate the world’s ability to learn, discover, and communicate science – transforming how knowledge is shared and making science open, collaborative, and easily understandable by all.

We’re shaping the future of science communication and are looking for talented individuals to help bring this vision to life!

What You'll Be Doing

• Collaborate across teams: Work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to translate ideas into high-quality product experiences.
• Own and improve: Take end-to-end ownership of key components of our codebase, ensuring that features are robust, secure, scalable, and maintainable.
• Drive creative problem-solving: Embrace ambiguity, experiment boldly, and develop creative solutions that push the boundaries of what our product can do.
• Uphold engineering excellence: Write testable, well-documented code; participate in code reviews and design critiques; and help evolve best practices.
• Elevate team impact: Bring thoughtful technical insights and a growth mindset to help us continuously improve as a team.

Our Ideal Fit Brings

• User focused & impact driven: You prioritize delivering real value to users, thoughtfully balancing quality, speed, and the company's broader goals.
• AI-native mindset: You use AI tools as a natural part of how you build — in your dev workflow, in the features you ship, and in how you think about what's possible.
• Tech expertise: Proficient in modern JavaScript frameworks (e.g., ReactJS), NodeJS/ExpressJS, cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS). Experience with MongoDB/NoSQL databases for efficient data management.
• Strong communicator & collaborator: You thrive in a collaborative environment, working closely with others across disciplines to achieve shared objectives.
• Crafting quality user experiences: You work closely with design and product to craft delightful user interfaces, leveraging the web platform and using UI frameworks such as React.
• Builder mentality: With 5–7+ years of full-stack experience, you've owned features from concept to production and know how to move fast without cutting corners.

Nice To Haves

• Background in science with an analytical and data-driven approach to problem-solving.
• Passionate mentor with experience guiding and supporting team members.
• Experience with observability and metrics-driven design, utilizing tools like Datadog.
• Enterprise development experience, building scalable and robust systems in a complex environment.
• Experience with AWS and Terraform for cloud infrastructure and automation.

You Could Be Working On Problems Like

• Scaling a highly interactive web application: Build and optimize performance for our complex, graphics-heavy canvas, ensuring a smooth and responsive experience.
• Managing and visualizing large volumes of data: Work with rich scientific and usage data to enable insights, improve performance, and support new AI-driven features.
• Evolving a distributed architecture: Design, build, and maintain systems across multiple backend and frontend services, ensuring reliability, scalability, and security as we grow.
• Delivering delightful user experiences: Collaborate with design and product teams to craft intuitive interfaces that make advanced scientific visualization accessible to everyone.
• Bridging human and AI collaboration: Help shape tools that translate complex scientific data and research into visuals that scientists, decision-makers, and broader audiences can actually use.
• Building the next generation of BioRender products: Contribute to a growing suite of tools—including our Editor, Graphing, and Presentations products - that empower scientists to communicate and collaborate more effectively than ever before.

Why join us?

• We are mission-driven: we work collaboratively towards our shared vision of improving scientific communication and accelerating scientific discovery. BioRender figures have appeared in more than 54,000 publications!
• BioRender is loved by millions! We have a world-class NPS and a community of loyal fans and users in 200+ countries!
• Our company is backed by top investors and accelerators like Y Combinator, and we are on a growth trajectory comparable to many top-performing SaaS companies
• We’re remote-first with team members across Canada and the U.S., offering you the flexibility to work from anywhere.

BioRender is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status. By submitting this application, you consent to the processing of your personal data by BioRender in accordance with GDPR and our Privacy Policy.