Software Engineer

Your work will change lives. Including your own. 

The Impact You’ll Make

As a Software Engineer on the Orchestration Platform team, you'll help define the platform by which workflow orchestration is done at Recursion. You will work on a variety of distributed compute and infrastructure problems, supporting use cases which range from business process automation, data pipelines, machine learning, distributed computation, and more. You will work with a variety of computational chemists, computational biologists, software engineers, ML researchers, and data scientists, and you will have a direct impact on many of our most important difficult scientific and drug discovery problems.

Location:

This is a hybrid position based in Salt Lake City, UT, or Toronto, ON

The Team You’ll Join 

You'll be part of a small team in our Digital Platforms org. You will be responsible for developing our self-serve orchestration platforms and working in partnership with many different teams to ensure they are successful in delivering results using those platforms. This role will provide the opportunity to work cross-functionally with many different types of people and to apply your technical expertise to a variety of different problem domains as we work to innovate on drug discovery programs at an industrial scale.

The Experience You’ll Need

• Experience programming professionally, in projects with significant ambiguity and technical complexity, ideally spanning multiple production systems and involving diverse technologies.
• Experience being resourceful and collaborative in order to complete large projects.
• A people-first mindset. We work closely with people from a wide variety of professional and academic disciplines and always prioritize supporting our coworkers in their growth and experience.
• We work with the following products (You don't need to know all (or any!) of these, as long as you're excited to learn about them):
• Prefect
• Camunda
• Airflow 
• Kubernetes
• Python
• Google Cloud Platform

• Solid data engineering fundamentals, e.g. data structures, database query patterns, workflow orchestration, etc.
• A background in biology is not necessary, but intellectual curiosity is a must!

How You’ll be Supported

• Peer mentor will provide support and training during first 90 days to ensure quick ramp up
• Dedicated sessions to walkthrough services/systems that you will support
• 1 on 1 introductions with cross functional peers that you will partner closely with
• Option to attend conferences to learn more from colleagues, networks, and more to better your skillset 
• Option to participate in coaching like BetterUp for leadership skills and development programs

At Recursion, we believe that every employee should be compensated fairly. Based on the skill and level of experience required for this role, the estimated current annual base range for this role is:

• Developing: $121,000 USD
  Skilled: $128,000 USD
  Expert: $137,000 USD

To learn more about our level within levels, click here.

You will also be eligible for bonuses and equity compensation + our comprehensive benefits package for United States based candidates. The range displayed on each job posting reflects target ranges for US new hire salaries and is determined by job, level, and market factors.  

During the interview selection process, you will connect with a Talent Acquisition Partner who will be your advocate and ally to ensure you receive the appropriate compensation that meets your needs for your skills, experience, and relevant education/training, while also reviewing our very competitive total rewards package.

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The Values That We Hope You Share:

• We Care: We care about our drug candidates, our Recursionauts, their families, each other, our communities, the patients we aim to serve and their loved ones. We also care about our work.
• We Learn: Learning from the diverse perspectives of our fellow Recursionauts, and from failure, is an essential part of how we make progress.
• We Deliver: We are unapologetic that our expectations for delivery are extraordinarily high. There is urgency to our existence: we sprint at maximum engagement, making time and space to recover. 
• Act Boldly with Integrity: No company changes the world or reinvents an industry without being bold. It must be balanced; not by timidity, but by doing the right thing even when no one is looking.
• We are One Recursion: We operate with a 'company first, team second' mentality. Our success comes from working as one interdisciplinary team.

Recursion spends time and energy connecting every aspect of work to these values. They aren’t static, but regularly discussed and questioned because we make decisions rooted in those values in our day-to-day work. You can read more about our values and how we live them every day here.

More About Recursion 

Recursion is a clinical stage TechBio company leading the space by decoding biology to industrialize drug discovery. Enabling its mission is the Recursion OS, a platform built across diverse technologies that continuously expands one of the world’s largest proprietary biological and chemical datasets. Recursion leverages sophisticated machine-learning algorithms to distill from its dataset a collection of trillions of searchable relationships across biology and chemistry unconstrained by human bias. By commanding massive experimental scale — up to millions of wet lab experiments weekly — and massive computational scale — owning and operating one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, Recursion is uniting technology, biology and chemistry to advance the future of medicine.

Recursion is headquartered in Salt Lake City, where it is a founding member of BioHive, the Utah life sciences industry collective. Recursion also has offices in London, Toronto, Montreal and the San Francisco Bay Area. Learn more at www.Recursion.com, or connect on X (formerly Twitter) and LinkedIn.

Recursion is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values diversity and inclusion.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, local, or provincial human rights legislation. 

Recursion welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

Recruitment & Staffing Agencies: Recursion Pharmaceuticals and its affiliate companies do not accept resumes from any source other than candidates. The submission of resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to Recursion or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by Recursion’s internal Talent Acquisition team. Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of Recursion, and Recursion will not owe any referral or other fees. Our team will communicate directly with candidates who are not represented by an agent or intermediary unless otherwise agreed to prior to interviewing for the job.