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Staff Software Engineer / Technical Lead at Tamarind Bio | LAYIQ

Partner with the CTO on architecture, technical planning, and major engineering initiatives
Provide technical guidance across a team of 7-8 engineers
Lead design reviews and architectural discussions
Help engineers navigate complex technical challenges
Contribute directly to the codebase across infrastructure, backend services, APIs, and product development
Review code and provide feedback on implementation approaches
Identify opportunities to improve reliability, scalability, performance, and developer productivity
Support technical decision-making across new products and platform capabilities
Work closely with customers and internal stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into practical solutions
Help establish engineering standards as the team continues to grow
Week in the Life
Collaborate with the CTO on technical priorities and architectural decisions
Review designs and provide guidance on implementation approaches
Build and operate services across infrastructure, ML systems, APIs, and customer-facing applications
Participate in code reviews and technical discussions
Help unblock engineers working through difficult technical problems
Work directly with customers to understand requirements and gather feedback
Balance hands-on engineering work with technical leadership responsibilities
Ideal Qualifications
7+ years of software engineering experience
Experience serving as a senior technical contributor, staff engineer, principal engineer, or technical lead
Strong software architecture and distributed systems experience
Experience building and operating production infrastructure and cloud services
AWS experience (EC2, S3, DynamoDB, Docker, etc.)
Ability to mentor engineers and provide technical guidance across multiple projects
Strong communication skills and sound engineering judgment
Comfort operating in an early-stage startup environment
Willingness to work onsite in San Francisco
Technology
Our technology sits at the intersection of DevOps, MLOps, and Computational Biology. We support workloads ranging from large-scale ML inference and model deployment to workflow orchestration across research, infrastructure, and scientific computing environments.

Staff Software Engineer / Technical Lead

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