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Retool

<div>
 
 About Retool
 
 
 
 Nearly every company in the world runs on custom software for critical operations like tracking performance metrics, handling customer support workflows, building admin dashboards, and countless other processes you might not have even thought of. But most companies don't have adequate resources to properly invest in these tools, leading to a lot of old and clunky internal software or, even worse, users still stuck in manual and spreadsheet flows.
 
 
 At Retool, we&rsquo;re building the first enterprise AppGen platform: software that transforms natural language into production-ready code, integrates directly with business data, and meets the highest standards of security and governance. AI is redefining what it means to build software&mdash;and who gets to build it. The definition of &ldquo;developer&rdquo; now includes analysts, operators, and domain experts creating solutions directly. As the pool of builders widens, so does the complexity of what they need to build. The opportunity is enormous, but so is the challenge of enabling this larger community to build production-grade software safely. That means AI that understands real business data, enforces enterprise policies automatically, and empowers teams to create once and reuse everywhere with shared, trusted components.
 
 
 Over 100 million hours of work has been automated by developers and domain experts using our platform, freeing them to focus on creative problem-solving and strategic initiatives that drive real business value. The people closest to knowing what needs to be built can now safely create custom solutions within enterprise guardrails. And that's a mission worth striving for.
 
 
 Let's build the future together!
 
 
 
 What You'll Do
 
 
 
 As a member of the Developer Experience (DevX) team, you will build the tools, systems, and processes that enable all engineers at Retool to be productive and ship great code. This includes build systems, release pipelines, testing frameworks, editor extensions, interactive CLIs, and more. You will be part of a team of engineers who are passionate about creating smooth and intuitive tools for their peers and are not afraid to contribute to any part of our codebase.
 
 
 
 In This Role, You Will
 
 
 
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 Build high-quality internal tooling to help our make our developers more productive
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 Identify developer pain points and work with product teams to design solutions
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 Build and improve our CI systems
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 Own the pipelines and processes we use to release code to production
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 Orchestrate large-scale changes and upgrades across the codebase
 
 
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 The Skillset You'll Bring
 
 
 
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 3+ years of experience as an individual contributor on fast-moving engineering teams
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 Passion for building and productionizing developer productivity tools, frameworks, and other aspects of platform engineering
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 Experience with the JavaScript / TypeScript / Node.js ecosystem
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 Experience with Python
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 Experience with Bazel (preferred but not required)
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 You have a track record of building productive, collaborative relationships, both within an engineering org and across the broader company
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 You have a track record of delivering engineering projects and process improvements
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 You're excited by the ambiguity and high-ownership culture of early-stage startups
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 You are pragmatic, solution-oriented, and scrappy
 
 
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 For candidates based in San Francisco, the pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents base salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings (OTE) for commissionable roles. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Retool and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors such as (but not limited to), scope and responsibilities, the candidate&rsquo;s experience and qualifications, and location.
 
 
 Additional compensation in the form(s) of equity, and/or commission/bonuses are dependent on the position offered. Retool provides a comprehensive benefit plan, including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k). Pay and benefits are subject to change at any time, consistent with the terms of any applicable compensation or benefit plans.
 
 
 San Francisco
 
 
 $160,000&mdash;$193,600 USD
 
 
 Retool offers generous benefits to all employees and hybrid work location. For more information, please visit the benefits and perks section of our careers page!
 
 
 Retool is currently set up to employ all roles in the US and specific roles in the UK. To find roles that can be employed in the UK, please refer to our careers page and review the indicated locations.
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Software Engineer, Developer Experience

Notion

<div>
 
 About Us
 
 
 
 Notion helps you build beautiful tools for your life&rsquo;s work. In today's world of endless apps and tabs, Notion provides one place for teams to get everything done, seamlessly connecting docs, notes, projects, calendar, and email&mdash;with AI built in to find answers and automate work. Millions of users, from individuals to large organizations like Toyota, Figma, and OpenAI, love Notion for its flexibility and choose it because it helps them save time and money.
 
 
 In-person collaboration is essential to Notion's culture. We require all team members to work from our offices on Mondays and Thursdays, our designated Anchor Days. Certain teams or positions may require additional in-office workdays.
 
 
 
 About The Role
 
 
 
 Millions of people use Notion &mdash; and this number is increasing every day. That means millions of people trust us to deliver a fast, reliable, and secure experience, and we value this more than anything. We want to keep earning trust, while also continuing to amaze our users with the tools they can build in Notion. The Developer Experience team is responsible for architecting, implementing, and scaling the tools and frameworks that Notion developers use to build Notion. We are looking for engineers who are passionate about solving engineering productivity challenges, have deep empathy for other developers, and love to communicate with engineers. You don't need to have experience in this domain but willing to advocate for developer experience is the key.
 
 
 
 What You'll Achieve
 
 
 
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 Collaborate with engineers across the company to deliver an industry-leading developer experience, along the way working deeply with tools like the TypeScript language server, lint tooling, and the Notion CLI to improve developers&rsquo; day to day experience.
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 Work on the bleeding edge of tooling performance, researching and evaluating new tools and keeping up with new developments in the developer experience space in the JS ecosystem.
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 Work deeply with GitHub and our CI systems to help ensure engineers can merge their code quickly and safely. We aim for all PR CI pipelines to finish within 15 minutes!
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 Take ownership of our development environment and toolchain, and contribute to novel projects across the company to deliver impact.
 
 
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 Skills You'll Need To Bring
 
 
 
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 A drive to make developers&rsquo; lives better: you have a strong interest in keeping engineers in their flow state through better tooling. You like to think critically about the workflows engineers use in their day to day work, finding bottlenecks and thinking outside of the box to find ways to pave a better golden path for engineers to follow.
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 A focus on user experience: you bring care and craft to the user experience you build into your products. Your work emphasizes simplicity, supportability, and ease-of-use, and you communicate clearly with other teams and engineers to get feedback on where we can improve.
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 Multitasker and present: you like interrupts especially if this is blocking engineers.You switch between your project work and day to day developer experience challenges.
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 Interest in learning how things work: you love to learn how the tools you use work at a fundamental level. You get excited at the idea of digging into third-party source code to understand how they work and find new ways to use them.
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 Pragmatic and business-oriented: You care about business impact and prioritize projects accordingly. You don't just go after cool stuff&mdash;you understand the balance between craft, speed, and the bottom line. To you, technologies and programming languages are about tradeoffs. You may be opinionated, but you're not ideological and can learn new technologies as you go.
 
 
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 Familiarity with TypeScript, especially in ways to keep it running smoothly in a large codebase.
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 An interest in automated testing and familiarity with testing best practices
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 Past experience with React and common tooling like React Testing Library
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 Past experience on developer experience teams or related tools
 
 
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 We hire talented and passionate people from a variety of backgrounds because we want our global employee base to represent the wide diversity of our customers. If you&rsquo;re excited about a role but your past experience doesn&rsquo;t align perfectly with every bullet point listed in the job description, we still encourage you to apply. If you&rsquo;re a builder at heart, share our company values, and enthusiastic about making software toolmaking ubiquitous, we want to hear from you.
 
 
 Notion is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Notion considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Notion is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please let your recruiter know.
 
 
 Notion is committed to providing highly competitive cash compensation, equity, and benefits. The compensation offered for this role will be based on multiple factors such as location, the role&rsquo;s scope and complexity, and the candidate&rsquo;s experience and expertise, and may vary from the range provided below. For roles based in San Francisco, the estimated base salary range for this role is $150,000 - $250,000 per year.
 
 
 By clicking &ldquo;Submit Application&rdquo;, I understand and agree that Notion and its affiliates and subsidiaries will collect and process my information in accordance with Notion&rsquo;s Global Recruiting Privacy Policy.
 
 
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Decagon

<div>About Decagon
Decagon is the leading conversational AI platform empowering every brand to deliver concierge customer experience. Our AI agents provide intelligent, human-like responses across chat, email, and voice, resolving millions of customer inquiries across every language and at any time.
Since coming out of stealth, Decagon has experienced rapid growth. We partner with industry leaders like Hertz, Eventbrite, Duolingo, Oura, Bilt, Curology, and Samsara to redefine customer experience at scale. We've raised over $200M from Bain Capital Ventures, Accel, a16z, BOND Capital, A*, Elad Gil, and notable angels such as the founders of Box, Airtable, Rippling, Okta, Lattice, and Klaviyo.
We&rsquo;re an in-office company, driven by a shared commitment to excellence and velocity. Our values&mdash;customers are everything, relentless momentum, winner&rsquo;s mindset, and stronger together&mdash;shape how we work and grow as a team.<h2 class="jobSectionHeader">
About the Team</h2>
The Infrastructure team builds and operates the foundations that power Decagon: networking, data, ML serving, developer platform, and real&#8209;time voice. We partner closely with product, data, and ML to deliver high&#8209;scale, low&#8209;latency systems with clear SLOs and great developer ergonomics.
We organize around five focus areas:<ul><li>
Core Infra: The foundational cloud stack&mdash;networking, compute, storage, security, and infrastructure&#8209;as&#8209;code&mdash;to ensure reliability, scale, and cost efficiency.</li><li>
Data Infra: Streaming/batch data platforms powering analytics/BI and customer&#8209;facing telemetry, including for customer&#8209;managed and on&#8209;prem environments.</li><li>
ML Infra: GPU and model&#8209;serving platforms for LLM inference with multi&#8209;provider routing and support for on&#8209;prem/air&#8209;gapped deployments.</li><li>
Platform (DevEx): CI/CD, paved paths, and core services that make shipping fast, safe, and consistent across teams.</li><li>
Voice Infra: Telephony/WebRTC stack and observability enabling ultra&#8209;low&#8209;latency, high&#8209;quality voice experiences.</li></ul>
Our mission is to deliver magical support experiences &mdash; AI agents working alongside humans to resolve issues quickly and accurately.<h2 class="jobSectionHeader"> 
About the Role</h2>
We&rsquo;re hiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, and operate production infrastructure for high&#8209;scale, low&#8209;latency systems. You&rsquo;ll own critical services end&#8209;to&#8209;end, improve reliability and performance, and create paved&#8209;paths that let every Decagon engineer ship confidently.<h2 class="jobSectionHeader"> 
In this role, you will</h2><ul><li>
Design and implement critical infrastructure services with strong SLOs, clear runbooks, and actionable telemetry.</li><li>
Partner with research and product teams to architect solutions, set up prototypes, evaluate performance, and scale new features.</li><li>
Tune service latencies: optimize networking paths, apply smart caching/queuing, and tune CPU/memory/I/O for tight p95/p99s.</li><li>
Evolve CI/CD, golden paths, and self&#8209;service tooling to improve developer velocity and safety.</li><li>
Support various deployment architectures for customers with robust observability and upgrade paths.</li><li>
Lead infrastructure&#8209;as&#8209;code (Terraform) and GitOps practices; reduce drift with reusable modules and policy&#8209;as&#8209;code.</li><li>
Participate in on&#8209;call and drive down toil through automation and elimination of recurring issues.</li></ul><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"> 
Your background looks something like this</h2><ul><li>
6+ years building and operating production infrastructure at scale.</li><li>
Depth in at least one area across Core/Data/AI&#8209;ML/Platform/Voice, with curiosity to learn the rest.</li><li>
Proven track record meeting high availability and low latency targets (owning SLOs, p95/p99, and load testing).</li><li>
Excellent observability chops (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana, Datadog) and incident response (PagerDuty, SLO/error budgets).</li><li>
Clear written communication and the ability to turn ambiguous requirements into simple, reliable designs.</li></ul><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"> 
Even better</h2><ul><li>
Experience being an early backend/platform/infrastructure engineer at another company</li><li>
Strong Kubernetes experience (GKE/EKS/AKS) and experience across multiple cloud providers (GCP, AWS, and Azure)</li><li>
Experience with customer&#8209;managed deployments</li></ul><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"> 
Benefits</h2><ul><li>
Medical, dental, and vision</li><li>
Flexible time off</li><li>
Daily lunch/dinner &amp; snacks in the office</li></ul>
Compensation Range: $200K - $375K</div>

Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Apple

<div>The Developer Experience Human Interface Design team conceptualizes, designs, and ships the user experience for Apple developer tools. The team designs developer tools, including Xcode, used by millions of developers around the world to build, test, and ship software for Apple's platforms! Our team is looking for an experienced design leader who is skilled in user-focused design and has a strong understanding of technical concepts and tools. We care deeply about building experiences that elegantly solve for complex workflows with the finesse of Apple&rsquo;s design principles. 
 
Description 
 
The Developer Experience design team strives to solve the question of what a great developer tool should be. In this role you would be responsible for leading a small team to deliver user experience designs across multiple projects and tools.The role is highly cross functional and requires building strong partnerships with engineering managers, designers and engineers to pitch innovative ideas, foster a collaborative environment, and enhance the effectiveness and cohesion of the team. As a leader you will drive design direction with a mix of hands on design work and providing creative direction and feedback to the team. This position requires strong communication skills to represent design goals to partners and executives and the ability to interpret and challenge highly technical engineering requirements and business goals to advocate for user-focused product decisions. You will champion Apple's design standards and ensure that designs are functional, comprehensive, and maintains a high level of visual quality. 
 
Minimum Qualifications 
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Depth of knowledge of tools and workflows used in software development</li><li>
Effective at driving clarity in product vision that unites technical requirements with user focus</li><li>
Ability to build strong partnerships, influence, and lead a team to deliver high quality outcomes</li><li>
Portfolio demonstrating product design leadership, creative problem solving, and high quality visual design polish</li></ul> 

Preferred Qualifications 
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5+ years industry experience as a UX designer, Human Computer interaction designer, or related role</li><li>
2+ years of design management experience</li></ul> 

Pay &amp; Benefits 
 
At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $198,300 and $342,800, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location. 
 
Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple&rsquo;s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple&rsquo;s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You&rsquo;ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses - including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits. 
 
Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program. 
 
Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant . 
 
Submit Resume</div>

UX Design Manager, Developer Tools

Genentech

<div><div><div>THE POSITION</div>
A healthier future. It&rsquo;s what drives us to innovate. To continuously advance science and ensure everyone has access to the healthcare they need today and for generations to come. Creating a world where we all have more time with the people we love. That&rsquo;s what makes us Roche.
Advances in AI, data and computational sciences are transforming drug discovery and development. Roche&rsquo;s Research and Early Development organizations at Genentech (gRED) and Pharma (pRED) have demonstrated how these technologies accelerate R&amp;D, leveraging data and novel computational models to drive impact. Seamless data sharing and access to models across gRED and pRED are essential to maximising these opportunities. The Computational Sciences Center of Excellence (CS CoE) is a strategic, unified group whose goal is to harness the transformative power of data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to assist our scientists in both pRED and gRED to deliver more innovative and life-changing medicines for patients worldwide.
The Opportunity
Within the CS CoE organisation, the Data and Digital Catalyst (DDC) organization leads the modernization of our computational and data ecosystems by integrating digital technologies across Research and Early Development to empower stakeholders, advance data-driven science and accelerate decision-making. We are seeking a Software Engineer (SE5/SE6) to join our growing engineering team building the digital and automation infrastructure that underpins this vision. You&rsquo;ll help design and deliver the software that connects scientists, data, and instruments across disciplines &mdash; from modern web applications to lab automation integrations. You might focus on full-stack web applications, developing elegant and performant workflows for experimental design and data visualization. Or, you might focus on automation and data integration, building robust services that connect workcells, instruments, and experimental data systems. Either way, you&rsquo;ll contribute to the platforms that make our science faster, smarter, and more reproducible.
In this role, you will:<ul><li>
Design, build, and maintain full-stack or automation-facing software systems that power R&amp;D workflows.</li><li>
Collaborate closely with scientists, automation engineers, and computational teams to translate experimental and data needs into reliable, production-ready software.</li><li>
Develop high-quality, testable code in TypeScript and Python, building APIs, services, and interfaces that integrate data and instrumentation.</li><li>
Design and implement GraphQL and REST APIs, middleware, and service layers following modern patterns.</li><li>
Participate in system design and architecture discussions to evolve our platform&rsquo;s scalability and reliability.</li><li>
Contribute to onboarding new lab automation workflows and improve automation reliability and observability.</li><li>
Define standards for data exchange, workflow orchestration, and platform interoperability.</li><li>
Mentor peers and share best practices in software design, testing, and maintainability.</li><li>
Implement and maintain complex client-side state management patterns using Redux and React Context, ensuring predictable, maintainable application behavior across large codebases.</li></ul>
Who you are
Software Engineer<ul><li>
Bachelor&rsquo;s degree in Computer Science or similar technical field with at least 2-4+ years of software engineering experience or 4-7 years (SE6) of professional software engineering experience</li><li>
Expert in Node-based development and TypeScript (both front-end and back-end), with deep understanding of modern JavaScript frameworks and build tooling</li><li>
Strong proficiency in Python</li><li>
Deep understanding of modern JavaScript frameworks (React, Node.js/Express, Apollo)</li><li>
Experience with ORMs such as Drizzle or Prisma, and familiarity with SQL databases</li><li>
Deep understanding of state management frameworks (Redux, React Context), with the ability to evaluate trade-offs between global and local state for scalable UI architecture.</li><li>
Solid understanding of testing practices, CI/CD pipelines, and agile development workflows</li><li>
Strong testing discipline with experience using Playwright for end-to-end testing, Vitest (and React Testing Library) for unit and integration testing, and Storybook for component development and visual regression; able to make thoughtful trade-offs between test coverage, speed, and maintainability</li><li>
Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work across scientific and technical domain</li></ul>
The expected salary range for this position based on the location of California is $98,400 182,700. Actual pay will be determined based on experience, qualifications, geographic location, and other job-related factors permitted by law. A discretionary annual bonus may be available based on individual and Company performance. This position also qualifies for the benefits detailed at the link provided below.
Senior Software Engineer<ul><li>
Bachelor&rsquo;s degree in Computer Science or similar technical field with at least 4-7 years (SE6) of professional software engineering experience</li><li>
Expert in Node-based development and TypeScript (both front-end and back-end), with deep understanding of modern JavaScript frameworks and build tooling</li><li>
Strong proficiency in Python</li><li>
Deep understanding of modern JavaScript frameworks (React, Node.js/Express, Apollo)</li><li>
Experience with ORMs such as Drizzle or Prisma, and familiarity with SQL databases</li><li>
Deep understanding of state management frameworks (Redux, React Context), with the ability to evaluate trade-offs between global and local state for scalable UI architecture.</li><li>
Solid understanding of testing practices, CI/CD pipelines, and agile development workflows</li><li>
Strong testing discipline with experience using Playwright for end-to-end testing, Vitest (and React Testing Library) for unit and integration testing, and Storybook for component development and visual regression; able to make thoughtful trade-offs between test coverage, speed, and maintainability</li><li>
Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work across scientific and technical domains</li></ul>
The expected salary range for this position based on the location of California is $118,400 - 220,000. Actual pay will be determined based on experience, qualifications, geographic location, and other job-related factors permitted by law. A discretionary annual bonus may be available based on individual and Company performance. This position also qualifies for the benefits detailed at the link provided below.
Preferred for both levels<ul><li>
Experience with laboratory automation platforms or LIMS integration</li><li>
Exposure to scientific or biotech software systems</li><li>
Familiarity with containerization (Docker, Podman) and event-driven architectures</li><li>
Experience modernizing legacy web systems</li><li>
Knowledge of UX design principles or interest in data visualization</li><li>
Interest in automation, scientific computing, or biotech innovation</li><li>
Experience deploying and maintaining cloud-native systems on AWS, with familiarity in AWS CloudFormation for infrastructure as code</li></ul>
What success looks like<ul><li>
You independently ship reliable, high-quality software that reduces team workload and accelerates scientific progress.</li><li>
You make pragmatic, thoughtful technical decisions that balance scalability with developer velocity.</li><li>
You collaborate effectively across disciplines, bringing clarity, maintainability, and craft to the systems that enable automated and data-driven discovery.</li></ul>
Relocation benefits are available for this job posting
Benefits
#ComputationCoE
#tech4lifeComputationalScience
Genentech is an equal opportunity employer. It is our policy and practice to employ, promote, and otherwise treat any and all employees and applicants on the basis of merit, qualifications, and competence. The company's policy prohibits unlawful discrimination, including but not limited to, discrimination on the basis of Protected Veteran status, individuals with disabilities status, and consistent with all federal, state, or local laws.
If you have a disability and need an accommodation in relation to the online application process, please contact us by completing this form Accommodations for Applicants.</div>
<div><div>JOB FACTS
</div><div><div><ul><div>Job Sub Category
Research Informatics
</div><div>Schedule
Full time
</div><div>Job Type
Regular
</div><div>Posted Date
Nov 10th 2025
</div><div>Job ID
202510-128022</div></ul></div></div></div></div>

Software Engineer/Senior Software Engineer, Engineering, Lab Automation

Andalusia Labs

<div>
 
 
 Overview
 
 
 
 
 At Andalusia Labs, we build foundational economic infrastructure for programmable global markets, connecting capital, computation, and coordination across the internet. Our work sits at the intersection of distributed systems, finance, and machine intelligence, with the goal of growing the world&rsquo;s programmable GDP.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Our team has shipped massively scalable systems and products at Coinbase, Google, AWS, Microsoft, X, TikTok, Goldman Sachs, and High-Frequency Trading firms. We are backed by Coinbase, Mubadala, Lightspeed, Bain Capital, Pantera, Framework, Digital Currency Group, Proof Group, Nima Capital, Naval Ravikant, Arthur Hayes, and founders, GPs, and executives from organizations like Founders Fund, Google, and Coinbase.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Role
 
 
 
 
 We are hiring a New Grad Software Engineer to help build systems that power programmable markets. You will contribute to core services, ship high-performance code, and learn across the stack. You will work alongside founders, senior engineers, and product partners to turn new primitives into production systems that handle high usage.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Responsibilities
 
 
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 Contribute to core services across networking, consensus and execution, tokenization, exchange, settlement, and data pipelines
 
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 Design, implement, and operate high-quality services in C++, Rust, Go, or Solidity with guidance from senior engineers
 
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 Profile and improve performance for throughput, tail latency, memory, storage, and network efficiency
 
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 Build correctness and safety with unit tests, property-based testing, fuzzing, static analysis, and thorough reviews
 
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 Support production reliability with clear SLOs, alerting, dashboards, and participation in incident response after onboarding
 
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 Create and maintain internal libraries, developer tooling, and CI to speed delivery and raise code quality
 
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 Write clear design docs that explain tradeoffs and support sound technical decisions
 
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 Collaborate with peers in design and code reviews and contribute to a high engineering bar
 
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 Partner with product, research, security, and go-to-market to scope milestones and ship new capabilities
 
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 Learn, model, and help implement financial primitives and risk logic with rigorous testing and telemetry
 
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 Requirements
 
 
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 BA/BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
 
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 0 to 2 years of experience through internships, research, or significant projects working with at least one of these languages (C++, Rust, Go, Solidity)
 
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 Strong understanding of distributed systems, data structures, algorithms, and software design
 
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 Experience building performant applications in internships, research, or significant projects
 
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 Exposure to compilers, runtimes, optimization, or static analysis through internships, research, or significant projects is a plus
 
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 Familiarity with Git, continuous integration, and automated testing for C++, Rust, Go, and or Solidity stacks
 
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 High ownership, ability to learn quickly with minimal guidance
 
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 Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and across the product engineering stack
 
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 Clear written and verbal communication
 
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 Bonus
 
 
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 MA/MS, PhD, or advanced degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
 
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 Familiarity with cryptography, key management, TEEs, or zero-knowledge systems
 
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 Experience or coursework in fintech, algorithmic trading, or financial primitives
 
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 Experience with React, Node, and/or TypeScript
 
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 Interested in startups
 
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 Note: Candidates must be currently authorized to work in the United States. We are not able to sponsor or transfer visas at this time.
 
 
</div>

New Grad Software Engineer

Hinge Health

<div>Overview:

About the Role
As a Senior Software Engineer at Hinge Health, you will play a pivotal role in designing, building, and maintaining large-scale software solutions that directly impact our members&rsquo; health outcomes. You will collaborate with cross-functional partners, including product managers and designers, to deliver new product capabilities and improve the maintainability, availability, and performance of our features. This role is essential to advancing our mission of transforming joint and muscle care through technology, including the integration of AI-driven solutions to automate and enhance care delivery. Hinge Health software engineers work on small interdisciplinary teams focused on different parts of the user journey.
The ROI Pod (Return on Investment Identification &amp; Measurement Pod) at Hinge Health is a cross-functional team, bringing together Data Engineering, Data Science, Health Economics, Product, and Software Engineering. Our mission is to build advanced tools and analyses that identify and measure ROI, directly supporting Hinge Health&rsquo;s goal of delivering measurable value to clients and driving &gt;1x ROI for all clients in 2026 and beyond. The pod&rsquo;s work spans optimizing targeted enrollment using predictive models, personalizing interventions to maximize clinical and economic impact, and automating client-facing ROI analyses to accelerate and scale reporting.
As a Senior Software Engineer in the ROI Pod, you will play a pivotal role in designing, building, and maintaining large-scale data infrastructure and automation systems that power our ROI measurement and reporting. You&rsquo;ll collaborate closely with data scientists, health economists, and product managers to deliver new capabilities, such as automating claims data ingestion, standardizing data pipelines, and expanding targeted enrollment. Your responsibilities will include breaking down complex problems into manageable tasks, delivering robust and scalable solutions, and proactively improving the maintainability and performance of our systems. You&rsquo;ll also mentor junior engineers, contribute to architectural decisions, and help integrate AI-driven solutions to enhance automation and insight generation. This role is essential to advancing Hinge Health&rsquo;s mission of transforming joint and muscle care through technology and data-driven outcomes.
We enjoy a continuous deployment DevOps culture, and take owner-operator pride in supporting our code in production. Our production systems rely on React Native, React, Node.js, TypeScript, Nestjs, GraphQL, Docker, Rails, AWS, Postgres, Redis, Apollo, and Redux. Our workflow is trunk-based CI/CD, and our security/compliance posture is at the highest standards of healthcare, including HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC 2, and CCPA. 
What You&rsquo;ll Accomplish<ul><li>
Deliver large projects that introduce new product capabilities, often acting as a maintainer for key code repositories.</li><li>
Break down complex problems into manageable tasks, ensuring steady and predictable delivery while identifying and resolving root causes of incidents.</li><li>
Collaborate with your team to roadmap and execute ambitious technical strategies, balancing short-term and long-term trade-offs.</li><li>
Mentor and support junior engineers, providing thoughtful code reviews and real-time pairing.</li><li>
Integrate and leverage AI technologies to automate processes and enhance product features, contributing to Hinge Health&rsquo;s AI-driven care platform.</li><li>
Proactively improve the maintainability, availability, and performance of the team&rsquo;s features, and contribute to the team&rsquo;s overall architecture and developer tooling.</li><li>
Communicate technical ideas clearly to both technical and non-technical partners, and document solutions for future reference.</li></ul>
Hinge Health Hybrid Model
We believe that remote work and in-person work have their own advantages and disadvantages, and we want to be able to leverage the best of both worlds. Employees in hybrid roles are required to be in the office 3 days per week, for the full 8 hours of a typical business day. The San Francisco office has a dog-friendly workplace program. 

Qualificatons:

 Basic Qualifications<ul><li>
Bachelor&rsquo;s Degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering or related technical field</li><li>
5+ years of non-internship full time professional software development experience</li><li>
4+ years of experience with at least one software programming language</li><li>
4+ years of experience in the full software development life cycle</li><li>
Experience delivering large software projects or features in a production environment</li><li>
Proficiency in at least one modern programming language (e.g., Python, Java, JavaScript, etc.)</li></ul>
Preferred Qualifications<ul><li>
Experience with AI technologies for software design and coding assistance</li><li>
Experience mentoring or onboarding junior engineers</li><li>
Familiarity with distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, or scalable architectures</li><li>
Experience with healthcare technology or regulated environments</li><li>
Experience with Agile development practices</li></ul>
Compensation
This position will have an annual salary, plus equity and benefits. Please note the annual salary range is a guideline, and individual total compensation will vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, competencies, and work location. The annual salary range for this position is $148,000 - $222,000. 

Company Information:

About Hinge Health
Hinge Health leverages software, including AI, to largely automate care for joint and muscle health, delivering an outstanding member experience, improved member outcomes, and cost reductions for its clients. The company has designed its platform to address a broad spectrum of MSK care&mdash;from acute injury, to chronic pain, to post-surgical rehabilitation&mdash;and the platform can help to ease members&rsquo; pain, improve their function, and reduce their need for surgeries, all while driving health equity by allowing members to engage in their exercise therapy sessions from anywhere. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Learn more at http://www.hingehealth.com
What You'll Love About Us<ul><li>
Inclusive healthcare and benefits: On top of comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, we offer employees and their family members help with gender-affirming care, tools for family and fertility planning, and travel reimbursements if healthcare isn&rsquo;t available where you live.</li><li>
Planning for the future: Start saving for the future with our traditional or Roth 401k retirement plan options which include a 2% company match.</li><li>
Modern life stipends: Manage your own learning and development</li></ul>
Culture &amp; Engagement
Hinge Health is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. We make employment decisions without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, veteran status, disability status, pregnancy, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. We provide reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities. If you feel you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, let us know by reaching out to your recruiter.
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