The data product team at Inscopix is looking for an experienced backend engineer to drive development of a cloud-based platform for organizing, analyzing, and visualizing neuroscience research data. On the data product team, you will work alongside front-end engineers that will bring your databases and APIs to life, data engineers that will architect algorithms optimized for your data structures, and neuroscientists that will use the tools to analyze data in collaborations with academia and industry. We’re looking for someone who works well on a small team, is passionate about building effective and elegant products, and would relish an opportunity to directly enable and empower high throughput neuroscience research.

What you will be doing:

• Create and maintain a cloud-based backend to drive our data organization and analysis platform, assist in building out our development and deployment workflow
• Participate in system design discussions and take leadership on cloud infrastructure and backend architecture design
• Design, implement, and test performant/scalable APIs and services
• Assist with development of the data pipeline for storing, moving, and computing large amounts of scientific data on-demand
• Support new application features and changes in a rapidly iterative development environment
• Advocate for modern engineering and DevOps best practices

Technology we’re using: 

• Backend
  • Node.js
  • Python
  • S3
  • PostgreSQL
  • AWS/DigitalOcean
  • GraphQL
  • C++ (performant algorithms)
• Frontend
  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Apollo Client
  • WebAssembly

What we’re looking for:

• 3+ years of experience as a Backend Engineer with exposure to Node.js, AWS, PostgresQL, and GraphQL.
• Experience architecting high-throughput databases in some flavour of SQL.
• Experience building and maintaining APIs, writing performant server-side applications, and crafting efficient database queries/data structures
• DevOps experience implementing large scale data stacks using cloud managed and/or serverless architectures.
• Focus on UX for both beauty and functionality in products that you design

Bonus points if you have:

• Experience scaling backend systems and cloud infrastructure at a small start-up.
• Experience with Apollo
• Experience with Python
• Experience with C++
• Experience with React/TypeScript
• Experience with WebAssembly
• Maintainer of open-source projects or packages

About Inscopix:

Inscopix is a neurotechnology company developing a platform and full stack for preclinical and academic neuroscience research. Our vision at Inscopix is to drive new treatments to dramatically improve the health and well-being of people suffering from debilitating brain and nervous system disorders. Inscopix’s flagship products, nVista and nVoke, have been deployed in over 400 research institutions across the world resulting in over 85 top-tier scientific publications and empowering breakthroughs in Alzheimers, Parkinson’s, psychiatric disorders, chronic pain, and addiction. Based in Palo Alto, the Inscopix team brings together deep domain expertise in neuroscience, engineering, and data science. Advised and backed by industry luminaries and investors, Inscopix has been recognized as a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, and by Deloitte as one of North America’s fastest growing technology companies.

Inscopix is an equal opportunity employer.

Inscopix welcomes and values diversity. Since our technology impacts people of different backgrounds, thoughts and beliefs, we feel it’s critical to employ people that reflect that diversity.  Employment decisions at Inscopix are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity and/or expression, ethnic or national origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, disability, HIV status, sexual orientation, marital or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical or genetic history or any other protected status. Inscopix is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind.