About the role
Senior Software Engineer Department: Engineering Employment Type: Full Time Location: San Mateo, CA Description
The role: BigHat Biosciences is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our engineering team. This role is for experienced engineers ready to own a significant area of our platform as a subject-matter expert, lead epics end-to-end, and shape the architecture and engineering practices that support the design, build, and testing of therapeutic antibodies at scale. You will work closely with engineers, product partners, and laboratory scientists to build and evolve the internal software systems at the center of our science. This role is leveled as Senior Software Engineer I. At this level, you operate as a subject-matter expert in your area, working with a high degree of independence and regularly leading epics. Candidates with prior experience in biotech, life sciences, or scientific software may be considered with fewer total years of software engineering experience. *At BigHat we believe in titles that commensurate with skill set, relative organizational impact, and value contribution; more experienced candidates are encouraged to apply, with the understanding that r esponsibilities and title would adjust as appropriate. Key
Responsibilities Lead projects end-to-end, from PRD through implementation, testing, release, and validation against the customer success metric. Own one or more major areas of BigHat's internally developed, cloud-based platform as a subject-matter expert, and serve as a cross-team and cross-org resource for those areas. Take on net-new, 0-to-1 work from specification, designing interactions between features and the infrastructure that supports them, and producing novel solutions where existing patterns fall short. Collaborate with, and increasingly manage, the relationship with scientists and product owners to translate real-world lab workflows into reliable software, and to iterate on success metrics. Operate and run engineering processes: PRD reviews, stand-ups, PR approvals, and other team ceremonies. Own the quality and outcomes of your work and your epics, including debugging, test failures, and production issues, anticipating next steps and owning the trajectory of major features. Drive technical depth across the codebase, infrastructure, and systems, and actively improve the design and architectural principles