Software Engineer

Loyal is an early stage company developing drugs to help dogs live longer, healthier lives. We see aging as a disease that can be slowed and improved with medicines. Loyal was spun out of Laura Deming’s Longevity Fund and is well funded by top venture capitalists and angels.

We’re hiring a Software Engineer to join the Computational Biology team. This is a great opportunity for someone looking to make the transition from pure engineering to working in biotech and aging - a background in biology is not required.

Our team is made of both scientists and engineers which allows us to bring state-of-the-art scientific findings to scale much faster than traditional biotech. As a Software Engineer you will work across the stack from web interfaces and databases to data pipelines and MLOps. Being at a startup, you’ll collaborate with engineering teams and scientists throughout the company; getting to know the longevity pipeline end-to-end, from bench assays to clinical trials. You’ll see your work directly impact the development and deployment of longevity treatments.

This is an open apply for software engineers at any stage of their career.

Loyal is founded and led by a first-gen, female CEO – we encourage and look forward to diverse applicants.

As part of the Computational Biology team you will

• • Support ongoing and new applications for both internal and external projects
  • Create and manage data flows and databases and migrations
  • Work with external partners to securely onboard and integrate external data
  • Create documentation for all activities
  • Contribute expertise to compute infrastructure decision-making and strategy
  • Provide advice and support on data management best practices for ongoing studies, both internally and externally facing

Proficiencies

• • Demonstrated experience in React, JavaScript, TypeScript, Terraform, AWS or other cloud-based systems
  • Database experience (Postgres, etc)
  • Nice to have: Python, experience with design systems

How you work and think

• • Strong desire to work collaboratively within a team and across teams
  • Always looking for opportunities to assist others
  • Desire to learn and grow in ability and responsibilities
  • Willingness to learn whatever language is necessary
  • Process driven - creates frameworks to tackle challenging problems
  • Mission driven - able to prioritize and put day to day work in the context of the overall company goals
  • Track record of communicating with technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Able to work in a fast paced and ever-changing environment
  • Empathy to others and low ego

The Fundamentality of Health | Good health is critical to every other human (and animal!) experience. We believe health is a fundamental right and are dedicating our lives to maximizing health and developing better medicines for the worst diseases.

Truth Seeking & Feedback Loops | Uniquely in biology, there is a predetermined truth of whether a specific drug will work or not — we just have to catch up with biology! We seek out this truth and do not shy away from inconvenient truths. This holds for personal development too: we are always searching for feedback loops and embody a perpetual growth mindset.

Morality & Empathy | We are developing medicines that may one day be given to a living animal, medicines that if designed badly could hurt that animal instead of help. This is a huge responsibility and should be respected as such. Our work needs to adhere to the strictest moral code and always integrate empathy for the patient.

Transparency | We believe full transparency in thoughts, opinions, intentions, and actions (both good ones and mistakes) is a better way to build a business and work together.

Kindness | Great business(wo)men do not need to be ruthless — you can execute excellently with kindness.

Dog gifs | We love them.