Software Engineer

Our client, an AI-driven startup in the pharmaceuticals industry, is hiring a Software Engineer to join their team in New York. The successful candidate will help build the next generation of AI-powered clinical review tools, by contributing to the design, development, testing and deployment of features used by pharmaceutical customers in live clinical trials.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver new platform features using Python and TypeScript.
• Enhance system reliability, scalability, performance and automated test coverage.
• Support the development of data pipelines used to ingest, standardize and process clinical trial data.
• Assist in integrating and evaluating LLM-powered workflows within a hybrid AI and heuristics-based architecture.
• Partner closely with customers to understand how medical reviewers and data managers interact with the platform.
• Collaborate with the CTO and founding team on architecture decisions and engineering best practices.
• Take ownership of clearly defined projects from implementation through to deployment.

Skillset

• At least 4 years of experience building and deploying production-grade software.
• Strong backend engineering skills in Python or a similar programming language.
• Ability to work across the full stack, including frontend development with React and TypeScript.
• Solid understanding of relational databases, SQL and data modelling concepts.
• Strong attention to clean, maintainable code, testing and software quality best practices.
• Experience working with AWS or other major cloud infrastructure platforms.
• Familiarity with AI tools, LLM-based applications or intelligent workflow systems.
• Experience building or supporting ETL pipelines, large-scale data systems, or validation frameworks.
• Previous experience working in fast-paced startup or early-stage environments is a plus.
• Exposure to healthcare, life sciences, biotech or clinical trial technology environments is an advantage.

Benefits

• Salary: $150k – $170k.
• Equity.
• Health, vision and dental insurance.