Serova - Founding Product Engineer
At a glance
Mid-level Software Engineering role at deCircle. San Francisco · $185,000–$205,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Build Serova’s first patient and clinician product using internal antigen, vaccine design and case-status data
- Redesign the scientific dashboard from its user experience through visual design and implementation
- Shape workflows with clinical, wet lab, manufacturing and engineering teams
- Create internal tools for data access, follow-ups and CRO or manufacturing processes
- Take product features from early concept to release using Postgres, Python and React/TypeScript
What you bring
- You have one to six years of full-time engineering experience and have owned both frontend and backend for a product
- You can make product and design decisions and ship work without a detailed spec, designer or product manager
- You have built products that people outside engineering used
Who this fits
This founding, end-to-end product engineering role suits someone comfortable shaping both design and implementation. It is on-site five days a week in San Francisco or London; relocation is considered case by case, and visa transfers are accepted.
From the employer
Serova designs personalized mRNA cancer vaccines (founded 2024, 20 people, $35M raised). Founding role owning product end to end: design, frontend, backend.
Comp: $185K-$205K base (flex for exceptional) + 0.05%-0.25% equity. Location: On-site 5 days (SF or London); remote only for exceptional; relocation case-by-case. Visa: Open to visa transfers (OPT, H1B transfers).
Responsibilities
Build Serova's first patient- and clinician-facing product on top of internal data (antigen prediction, vaccine design, case status)
Rebuild the scientific dashboard from scratch: UX, visual design, implementation
Work with clinical, wet lab, manufacturing and engineering teams to design workflows
Build internal tools/front-end services (data access, follow-ups, CRO/manufacturing processes) on one shared DB
Lead new product surfaces concept-to-production (Postgres, Python, React/TypeScript)
Tech stack: React, TypeScript, Python, PostgreSQL
Source: https://www.paraform.com/share/serova/cmuoidko000ae0clb18832se1
1-6 yrs full-time engineering, owned a product end to end (FE+BE), ideally 0-1 at Seed-Series B
Real product and design taste; ships without spec/designer/PM
Track record of products non-engineers used
Bonus: design-engineer profile, dense-data/scientific UIs, founder or first-10 employee
On-site 5 days in SF or London
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