Senior Software Engineer

Full-Time | No sponsorship | On-Site highly preferred | North Bethesda, MD

AllSci is an innovative startup revolutionizing the creation, publication, and consumption of scientific knowledge. AllSci’s platform allows researchers to publish all their ideas and experiments, explore the existing literature through novel and intuitive means, and get credit for their contributions to the scientific dialogue. AllSci’s platform will lead to significantly increased volume, value, and machine readability of scientific information and will address the issues of incentives, trust, and reproducibility that plague science today. AllSci has made significant technological progress and assembled a team of AI technologists and industry veterans.  We are currently beta testing our product.

AllSci is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help develop a state-of-the-art data-driven technology platform that will have significant impact on scientific knowledge creation and distribution. The Senior Software Engineer will be responsible for development and modifications of AllSci software products, leading the team on architecture and ongoing front and back-end development while simultaneously producing high quality code. 

The candidate shall have a thorough understanding of the development life cycle: planning, design, implementation, deployment, and maintenance. The candidate shall have the ability to communicate relevant information to various audiences both technical and non-technical. The candidate shall display a strategic view of applications and how they fit into the product space. The candidate shall be creative, comfortable working in small teams, and have the ability to coordinate effectively with US and non-US based developers. The candidate will collaborate with the product team, designers, research scientists, and engineers. 

• Provide technical leadership  
• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code for both front- and back-ends  
• Develop system architecture and develop component designs  
• Provide technical guidance to team members  
• Translate requirements, storyboards, and use cases into functional applications.  
• Research new technologies and algorithms. Adapt and implement these technologies into practices  
• Identify issues and potential risks and implement solutions  
• Implement unit testing and QA best practices 
• Maintain code quality and organization  
• Integrate large datasets  
• Implement analytics algorithms  
• Collaborate with the UI/UX and Product Teams to ensure the technical feasibility of proposed functionality and designs  
• Develop system technical architecture documentation and design diagrams  
• Implement Scrum and manage releases   

• At least 4 years of Professional Web Application Development Experience.
• Proficient in Typescript and by extension JavaScript.
• Knowledge of design patterns and programming paradigms such as functional and object-oriented programming.
• Ability to reason and organize code into logical units which align to business needs.
• Knowledge of vertical slice architecture, event sourcing and distributed systems is a plus.
• Direct experience with Jira, SCRUM, AGILE, etc.
• Ability to effectively multi-task
• Ability to deliver quality code quickly under tight deadlines
• Proven track record mentoring junior developers

• Typescript
• React
• Tailwind CSS
• NodeJS
• ExpressJS 
• AWS

• Data experience:  PostgreSQL, Cypher, OpenSearch
• Experience using Jenkins to deploy code

Salary : $140,000 - $220,000