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About the Role
As a Senior Software Engineer at Formation Bio, you will build high-leverage software across the organization, transforming ambiguous problems into products and systems that enhance decision-making and accelerate progress for people, applications, AI Enabled Employees, and Agents. This is an AI-native engineering role where you will utilize modern AI and agentic development tools as a core part of your workflow and contribute to the responsible creation of AI-integrated software. You will be expected to navigate evolving priorities, make progress with incomplete information, identify high-value paths, communicate tradeoffs, and adapt quickly to new information.
Responsibilities
- Own meaningful product or platform outcomes from problem definition through design, implementation, launch, and iteration.
- Build and operate production services, APIs, integrations, databases, asynchronous workflows, and distributed systems.
- Build software for people, applications, AI Enabled Employees, and Agents, including the tools, APIs, permissions, state, observability, and failure handling required for reliable use.
- Design and ship AI-enabled and agentic workflows, including tool use, retrieval, data access, evaluation, and appropriate human review.
- Use LLMs and agentic coding systems daily for exploration, prototyping, implementation, testing, debugging, documentation, and automation while maintaining a high bar for validation.
- Partner with Data Engineering on application data models, data products, data contracts, and access patterns.
- Partner with Data Science on ML-powered capabilities, model interfaces, evaluation, and production integration.
- Partner with SRE on deployment, reliability, observability, security, and infrastructure decisions.
- Make pragmatic tradeoffs between speed, quality, maintainability, and future flexibility.
- Use engineering rigor proportional to the risk and context of the system.
- Reprioritize quickly as new information changes the highest-value path, and communicate decisions and tradeoffs clearly to technical and non-technical partners.
- Review designs and code, mentor engineers, and raise the bar for product judgment and engineering quality.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building and shipping production software, or equivalent senior-level experience.
- Experience in pharmaceutical, biology, and/or biotechnology software and data is a strong plus.
- Strong backend and systems engineering fundamentals, including APIs, distributed systems, databases, cloud services, and asynchronous workflows.
- Daily experience using AI tools, LLMs, or agentic development systems as part of the engineering workflow.
- Experience building AI-enabled software, agentic workflows, retrieval systems, tool integrations, or other ML-powered products is a strong plus.
- Familiarity with ML concepts such as training versus inference, embeddings, retrieval, evaluation, data quality, and model limitations is a plus.
- Strong product judgment and the ability to make progress with incomplete information, identify high-value problems, and adapt quickly as priorities change.
- Experience operating production software with appropriate testing, observability, security, and follow-through after launch.
- We value full-stack range, with a primary emphasis on backend, systems, product, and AI engineering.
- Exceptional communication and collaboration skills across Product Engineering, Data Engineering, Data Science, SRE, and non-technical partners.
Skills
- Backend Engineering
- Systems Engineering
- APIs
- Distributed Systems
- Databases
- Cloud Services
- Asynchronous Workflows
- AI Tools
- LLMs
- Agentic Development Systems
- AI-Enabled Software
- Agentic Workflows
- Retrieval Systems
- Tool Integrations
- ML Concepts
- Product Judgment
- Communication
- Collaboration
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- $185,500 - $232,000