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Senior Software Engineer

BioRender

BioRender

Software Engineering
Remote
Posted 6+ months ago
Senior Software Engineer
Remote - US; CA
Engineering
Remote
Full-time
At BioRender, we are accelerating the world’s ability to discover, learn, and communicate science faster through visuals. Today, BioRender empowers millions of scientists to create beautiful, accurate biological figures for communication within pharma companies and academic research.
Our vision is to make BioRender the place where humans read biology—translating human and AI-generated data into scientifically accurate, human-understandable visuals. As AI automates large parts of research, BioRender will transform complex data, experimental results, and text inputs into clear, intuitive visuals that scientists, decision-makers, and broader audiences can quickly interpret. Visual communication will be critical to accelerating breakthroughs across academia and industry, and BioRender will bridge the gap between specialized knowledge domains.
What you'll be doing:
  • Collaborate Across Teams: Work side-by-side with product managers, designers, and data scientists to shape a roadmap that empowers scientific leaders to collaborate safely and effectively together.
  • 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.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally: Work closely with designers, product managers, and other product engineers to deliver high-quality experiences.
  • 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 Passion: You’re genuinely curious about AI, continuously explore emerging tools, and love applying them in real-world projects.
  • 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 7+ years of full-stack development experience, you’ve built products from concept to production and are eager to prototype and iterate quickly.
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.
Here are the teams you could be joining:
Editor
  • Ship core Editor features: Build and maintain user-facing features in our Editor with a strong focus on performance, usability, and polish.
  • Deepen your technical expertise: Gain fluency in our architecture, particularly the Canvas APIs, and contribute to shared infrastructure.
  • Must have: full stack but strong front end experience
  • Nice to have: graphics experience
Enterprise
  • Integrating into our user’ workflow: Design and build secure, seamless integrations between BioRender and our users’ core tools.
  • Evolving our suite of admin tooling: Help our enterprise administrators effectively manage their users and content by building tools for both internal and external teams (e.g. authentication, sharing controls, usage reporting).
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.
Req ID: R36