Albert Invent

SENIOR ENGINEER BACKEND JOB DESCRIPTION 

To design, develop, and maintain highly scalable, secure, and efficient backend systems that power  core business applications. The Senior Engineer – Backend will be responsible for architecting APIs, optimizing data flow, and ensuring system reliability and performance. This role will collaborate closely  with frontend, DevOps, and product teams to deliver robust solutions that enable seamless user 

experiences and support organizational growth through clean,maintainable, andwell-tested code. 

Responsibilities: 

• Design,develop, andmaintainrobust andscalable backendservices usingNode.js. • Collaborate with front-end developers and productmanagersto define and implement API specifications. 

• Optimize application performance and scalability by identifying bottlenecks and  proposing solutions. 

• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code, and conduct code reviews to ensure quality standards. 

• Developunittests andmaintain code coverage toensure highquality. 

• Document architectural solutions and system designs to ensure clarity and  maintainability. 

• Troubleshoot andresolve issuesindevelopment,testing, and production environments. • Stay up to date withemerging technologies and industry trendsto continuously improve our tech  stack. 

• Mentor andguide junior engineers,fostering a culture oflearning andgrowth. 

Requirements: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience). 

• 5+ yearsof experience in backenddevelopmentwith a focusonNode.js andJavascript. • StrongunderstandingofRESTfulAPIs andmicroservices architecture. 

• Proficiency in database technologies (SQL and NoSQL, such as DynamoDB, MongoDB,  PostgreSQL,etc.). 

• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies(Docker, Kubernetes). • Knowledgeof cloudplatform(AWS) anddeploymentbest practices. 

• Excellentproblem-solving skillsandtheability toworkina fast-pacedenvironment. • Strong communication and teamwork skills. 

Goodto have: 

• Experiencewithfront-endframeworks(e.g.Angular,React,Vue.js). 

• Understanding ofHTML,CSS, and JavaScript. 

• Familiaritywithresponsivedesignanduserexperienceprinciples. 

About AlbertInvent 

Albert Invent is a cutting-edge AI-driven software company headquartered in Oakland, California, on a mission to empower scientists and innovators in chemistry and materials science to invent the future faster. Every day, scientistsin 30+ countries use Albert to accelerate RCD with AI trained like a chemist, bringing better products to market faster.

The Software Engineer – SRE will be responsible for building and maintaining highly reliable, scalable, and secure infrastructure that powers the Albert platform. This role focuses on automation, observability, and operational excellence to ensure seamless deployment, performance, and reliability of core platform services.

Responsibilities

• Act as a passionate representative of the Albert product and brand.
• Work closely with Product Engineering and other stakeholders to plan and deliver core platform capabilities that enable scalability, reliability, and developer productivity.
• Work with the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team on shared full-stack ownership of a collection of services and/or technology areas.
• Understand the end-to-end configuration, technical dependencies, and overall behavioral characteristics of all microservices.
• Be responsible for the design and delivery of the mission-critical stack with a focus on security, resiliency, scale, and performance.
• Own end-to-end performance and operability.
• Demonstrate a clear understanding of automation and orchestration principles.
• Act as the escalation point for complex or critical issues that have not yet been documented as Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
• Use a deep understanding of service topology and dependencies to troubleshoot issues and define mitigations.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 1+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 1 year in an SRE role focused on automation.
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), preferably using Terraform.
• Strong expertise in Python or Node.js, including designing RESTful APIs and microservices architecture.
• Strong expertise in cloud infrastructure (AWS) and platform technologies including microservices, APIs, and distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience with observability stacks including centralized log management, metrics, and tracing.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as CircleCI and performance testing using K6.
• Passion for bringing more automation and engineering standards to organizations.
• Experience building high-performance APIs with low latency (<200 ms).
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and collaborate with peers and leaders.
• Ability to lead technically, mentor engineers, and contribute to hiring and team growth.

Good to Have

• Experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration.
• Familiarity with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Datadog.
• Experience building internal developer platforms (IDPs) or reusable engineering frameworks.
• Exposure to ML infrastructure or data engineering workflows.
• Experience working in compliance-heavy environments (SOC2, HIPAA, etc.).

About Albert Invent

Albert Invent is a cutting-edge AI-driven software company headquartered in Oakland, California, on a mission to empower scientists and innovators in chemistry and materials science to invent the future faster. Scientists in 30+ countries use Albert to accelerate R&D with AI trained like a chemist, helping bring better products to market faster.

Why Join Albert Invent

• Work with a mission-driven, fast-growing global team at the intersection of AI, data, and advanced materials science.
• Collaborate with world-class scientists and technologists to redefine how new materials are discovered and developed.
• Culture built on curiosity, collaboration, ownership, and continuous learning.
• Opportunity to build cutting-edge AI tools that accelerate real-world R&D and solve global challenges such as sustainability and advanced manufacturing.

To design, build, and optimize scalable data infrastructure and pipelines that enable efficient

data collection, transformation, and analysis across the organization. The Senior Data Engineer

will play a key role in driving data architecture decisions, ensuring data quality and availability,

and empowering analytics, product, and engineering teams with reliable, well-structured data to

support business growth and strategic decision-making.

Responsibilities:

• Develop, and maintain SQL and NoSQL databases, ensuring high performance,

scalability, and reliability.

• Collaborate with the API team and Data Science team to build robust data pipelines and

automations.

• Work closely with stakeholders to understand database requirements and provide

technical solutions.

• Optimize database queries and performance tuning to enhance overall system

efficiency.

• Implement and maintain data security measures, including access controls and

encryption.

• Monitor database systems and troubleshoot issues proactively to ensure uninterrupted

service.

• Develop and enforce data quality standards and processes to maintain data integrity.

• Create and maintain documentation for database architecture, processes, and

procedures.

• Stay updated with the latest database technologies and best practices to drive

continuous improvement.

• Expertise in SQL queries and stored procedures, with the ability to optimize and fine-tune

complex queries for performance and efficiency.

• Experience with monitoring and visualization tools such as Grafana to monitor database

performance and health.

Requirements:

• 4+ years of experience in data engineering, with a focus on large-scale data systems.

• Proven experience designing data models and access patterns across SQL and NoSQL

ecosystems.

• Hands-on experience with technologies like PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, S3, GraphQL, or

vector databases.

• Proficient in SQL stored procedures with extensive expertise in MySQL schema design,

query optimization, and resolvers, along with hands-on experience in building and

maintaining data warehouses.

• Strong programming skills in Python or JavaScript, with the ability to write efficient,

maintainable code.

• Familiarity with distributed systems, data partitioning, and consistency models.

• Familiarity with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry) and

debugging production bottlenecks.

• Deep understanding of cloud infrastructure (preferably AWS), including networking, IAM,

and cost optimization.

• Prior experience building multi-tenant systems with strict performance and isolation

guarantees.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to influence cross-functional technical

decisions.

SENIOR ENGINEER FRONTEND JOB DESCRIPTION

To lead the development of robust, scalable, and visually engaging frontend applications that deliver exceptional user experiences. The Senior Engineer – Frontend will drive architectural decisions,

implement best practices in UI/UX, and ensure seamless integration with backend systems. This role focuses on building high-performance, maintainable interfaces while mentoring junior engineers and

contributing to the continuous improvement of the overall product development process.

Responsibilities:

• Partner closely with Product Owner and tech lead to discover, design, develop and deploy

great financial tools and products that provide meaningful value to our customers.

• Develop,Unittests and deploy components.

• IntegrateUI application with restAPIs.

• Primary technologies focused on modern front-end - Advanced JS ES6, React, Redux, Angular Js and other modern JS frameworks,HTML/CSS.

• Troubleshoot and resolve issues in development ,testing, and production environments.

• Stay up to date with emerging technologies and industry trendsto continuously improve our tech

stack.

• Mentor andguide junior engineers,fostering a culture oflearning and growth.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in computerscience, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent

experience).

• 4 to 8 years of practical experience and proven success with the design, development and

operation of complex web applications.

• Strong experience with modern and vanilla JavaScript and Typescript techniques

including JSX and ES6/ES7 features

• Familiarity connecting to microservices, REST APIs, graph APIs, and other database- driven

web applications

• Experiencewiththird-party librariesandAPIs

• Asynchronous programming including Promises, async/await, andES7generators

• Knowledge ofmodern authorizationmechanisms,such asJSONWebToken

• Familiaritywithmodernfront-end build pipelines andtools

• Experience with common front-end developmenttoolssuch as Babel,Webpack,NPM, etc.

• Broad technical knowledge across a majority, with deeper knowledge in,the following: Web

applicationdevelopment, Softwareengineeringand/ortesting;Data analysis.

• Excellentproblem-solving skillsandtheability toworkina fast-pacedenvironment.

• Strong communication and teamwork skills.

Good to have:

• Experience inNode Jsis aplus

• Experience inDatabases(MySQL,Postgres)willbeaplus

• Understandingof RESTfulservices

AboutAlbertInvent

Albert Invent is a cutting-edge AI-driven software company headquartered in Oakland, California, on a mission to empower scientists and innovators in chemistry and materials science to invent the future faster. Every day, scientistsin 30+ countries use Albert to accelerate RCD with AI trained like a chemist,bringing better products to market, faster.

Seeking a Senior Staff Cloud Engineer who will lead the design, development, and optimization of scalable cloud architectures, drive automation across the platform, and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver secure, high-performance cloud solutions aligned with business goals

Responsibilities:

• Cloud Architecture & Strategy
• Define and evolve the company’s cloud architecture, with AWS as the primary platform.
• Design secure, scalable, and resilient cloud-native and event-driven architectures to support product growth and enterprise demands.
• Create and scale up our platform for integrations with our enterprise customers (webhooks, data pipelines, connectors, batch ingestions, etc)
• Partner with engineering and product to convert custom solutions into productised capabilities.
• Security & Compliance Enablement
• Act as a foundational partner in building out the company’s security andcompliance functions.
• Help define cloud security architecture, policies, and controls to meet enterprise and customer requirements.
• Guide compliance teams on technical approaches to SOC2, ISO 27001, GDPR, and GxP standards.
• Mentor engineers and security specialists on embedding secure-by-design and compliance-first practices.
• Customer & Solutions Enablement
• Work with Solutions Engineering and customers to design and validate complex deployments.
• Contribute to processes that productise custom implementations into scalable platform features.
• Leadership & Influence
• Serve as a technical thought leader across cloud, data, and security domains.
• Collaborate with cross-functional leadership (Product, Platform, TPM, Security) to align technical strategy with business goals.
• Act as an advisor to security and compliance teams during their growth, helping establish scalable practices and frameworks.
• Represent the company in customer and partner discussions as a trusted cloud and security subject matter expert.
• Data Platforms & Governance
• Provide guidance to the data engineering team on database architecture, storage design, and integration patterns.
• Advise on selection and optimisation of a wide variety of databases (relational, NoSQL, time-series, graph, analytical).
• Collaborate on data governance frameworks covering lifecycle management, retention, classification, and access controls.
• Partner with data and compliance teams to ensure regulatory alignment and strong data security practices.
• Developer Experience & DevOps
• Build and maintain tools, automation, and CI/CD pipelines that accelerate developer velocity.
• Promote best practices for infrastructure as code, containerisation, observability, and cost optimisation.
• Embed security, compliance, and reliability standards into the development lifecycle.

Requirements:

• 12+ years of experience in cloud engineering or architecture roles.
• Deep expertise in AWS and strong understanding of modern distributed application design (microservices, containers, event-driven architectures).
• Hands-on experience with a wide range of databases (SQL, NoSQL, analytical, and specialized systems).
• Strong foundation in data management and governance, including lifecycle and compliance.
• Experience supporting or helping build security and compliance functions within a SaaS or enterprise environment.
• Expertise with IaC (Terraform, CDK, CloudFormation) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong foundation in networking, security, observability, and performance engineering.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills, with the ability to partner across technical and business functions.

Good to Have:

• Exposure to Azure, GCP, or other cloud environments.
• Experience working in SaaS/PaaS at enterprise scale.
• Background in product engineering, with experience shaping technical direction in collaboration with product teams.
• Knowledge of regulatory and compliance standards (SOC2, ISO 27001, GDPR, and GxP).

About Albert Invent

Albert Invent is a cutting-edge AI-driven software company headquartered in Oakland, California, on a mission to empower scientists and innovators in chemistry and materials science to invent the future faster. Every day, scientists in 30+ countries use Albert to accelerate R&D with AI trained like a chemist, bringing better products to market, faster.

Why Join Albert Invent

• Joining Albert Invent means becoming part of a mission-driven, fast-growing global team at the intersection of AI, data, and advanced materials science.
• You will collaborate with world-class scientists and technologists to redefine how new materials are discovered, developed, and brought to market.
• The culture is built on curiosity, collaboration, and ownership, with a strong focus on learning and impact.
• You will enjoy the opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI tools that accelerate real- world R&D and solve global challenges from sustainability to advanced manufacturing while growing your careers in a high-energy environment.