Senior/Lead Backend (NodeJS) Engineer - Onsite
Deep OriginSouth San Francisco, California, United States
Posted October 13, 2025
Full Time
About the Company
We help scientists solve disease, develop drugs, and extend healthspan by building tools that simplify R&D, simulate biology, and untangle the complexity of life. Streamline computational analysis today. Discover drugs tomorrow.
Job Description
Deep Origin is a company focused on reinventing how scientists and life science innovations come to life, aiming for a 150-year lifespan. They are seeking a Senior/Lead Backend Engineer to design, build, and integrate systems, writing APIs and contributing to their operating system for science. The role involves architectural design, implementation, and ownership of software features.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience designing, building, and operating complex, highly-scalable, distributed applications and systems
- 3+ years of hands-on software development experience with TypeScript/JavaScript/NodeJS
- Experience with both relational databases (e.g. Postgres) and NOSQL (e.g. MongoDB)
- Knowledge of Kubernetes and Cloud infrastructure/deployment tools
- Experience building platforms from an early stage
- Experience scaling platforms to handle many users (10,000+ DAU)
- Systematic problem-solving approach
- Strong sense of ownership and drive
- Experience working in high-energy startups
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Benefits
- Equity
