San Francisco - Bay Area, United States | Posted on 01/16/2026
Job Title: Sr Full Stack Engineer / Technical Lead – on site
Location:
SF/Bay Area, California working at a Software Development for Pharma Startup.
The Scope/Responsibilities of Role:
- System Design: Designing, building, and maintaining scalable backend systems in a production environment.
- AI Implementation: Rapidly learning and applying new techniques in LLM development (fine-tuning, RAG, and prompt engineering).
- Collaboration: Working across teams including product managers, medical writers, and customer success to translate requirements into technical solutions.
Interview Stages : 3-4, includes a take-home code assessment.
Must Have Skills for Role:
- Backend Experience: 3+ years in software development; proficiency in building APIs from the ground up using modern Python frameworks (FastAPI, Django, etc.).
- AI/ML: Experience building GenAI applications, complex prompt engineering, data pipelines, evaluation frameworks, and RAG.
- Cloud & Infrastructure: Experience deploying/scaling containerized applications in cloud environments (AWS preferred) and building CI/CD pipelines.
- Soft Skills: Ability to reason through ambiguous requirements and execute quickly without extensive oversight.
Nice to Have Skills for Role:
- Infrastructure-as-Code: Experience with Terraform or Pulumi.
- Regulated Industry: Secure coding practices from industries like fintech or life sciences.
- Frontend: Experience with React development.
- Domain Knowledge: Knowledge of regulatory requirements in life sciences or similar.
Requirements
- Mission: Accelerating drug development timelines to bring treatments to patients months faster.
- Hyper-Growth: Trending at 9x year-over-year growth and already working with a handful of the top 20–50 big pharma companies.
- High Impact: A small team of 7–8 people building products that shape how tens of thousands of people work in $100B+ organizations.