Blackfynn

Blackfynn is looking for an experienced Front End Software Engineer to join our growing engineering team to further our mission to optimize therapeutics for Parkinson’s and neurodegeneration.

 

ABOUT US

Blackfynn is a new kind of therapeutics company: one using high-quality clinical data, data modeling and analytics - first and always - to drive every aspect of drug development. We focus on optimizing clinical-stage assets for the near-term benefit of patients with Parkinson’s disease, with the aim of expanding into related neurodegenerative disease indications. It is our mission to improve the lives of everyone living with Parkinson’s and other neurodegenerative diseases across the globe, and to use our technology to democratize access to studies and medicines regardless of race, gender, socioeconomic status or geography. 

 

WHAT YOU'LL DO

 

• Improve the core infrastructure and services that facilitate the acquisition, transformation, storage and retrieval of complex neurological datasets
• Build and deploy solutions for collecting and aggregating Parkinson’s based clinical trial and observational study data
• Collaborate with the user experience team to convert designs from Figma files into semantic markup, CSS, and JavaScript to render dynamic web-based applications
• Collaborate with backend and data engineers to create asynchronous workflows and integrations leveraging web services

 

 WHAT YOU'LL NEED

In order to be successful as a Front End Software Engineer at Blackfynn, you’ll need 3+ years of strong industry experience developing production quality software (preferably biotech, pharma, or healthcare). You’ll also need to be:

 

• Flexible, thriving in the face of ambiguity and finding appropriate solutions
• Able to develop systematic, structured, and pragmatic approaches to tasks, with attention to detail
• Proficient in building semantically structured markup using CSS or preprocessor scripting language, i.e. SCSS.
• Proficient in modern JavaScript web-based frameworks and languages (Vue, React, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, CSS/SCSS)
• Proficient in best practices interfacing with RESTful APIs securely via SPAs
• Familiar with best practices for authorization and authentication flows (e.g., OAuth2)
• Proficiency in cloud based deployments within AWS and best practices for hosting web applications, server-side rendered (SSR) as well as single page applications (SPA)
• Solid understanding of the current landscape of frontend build tools, like Webpack, and how they integrate with continuous integration pipelines such as Jenkins, CircleCI, etc.
• Writes unit and integration tests for the application codebase
• Familiar with container based deployments and architectures (e.g., Docker)

 

Although experience with our existing stack is great, we're MOST interested in engineers who are able to take the complex tasks our users perform and distill them down to intuitive experiences. 

 

WHAT WE OFFER

 

• Competitive salaries and equity participation – we all share in Blackfynn’s success
• Generous vacation benefits – we want you to work hard but also rest and recharge
• Excellent health benefits – at the end of the day, we are here to improve healthcare
• Opportunity to work with smart people, solve complex problems, and make an impact in the world 

 

WHY BLACKFYNN? 

 

Each of us has been affected by Parkinson’s, dementia or other disease of the brain. We are the children, partners and friends of people living with neurodegenerative diseases. Sometimes, we are patients ourselves. Current drugs are marginally effective and can often make symptoms worse. New drugs keep failing in clinical trials. At Blackfynn, we do things differently. By applying a systematic approach that combines data, technology and deep domain expertise, we are developing a pipeline of targeted, clinical-stage therapeutics to improve the lives of those living with Parkinson’s and other neurodegenerative diseases. 

COVID-19 Update (February 2021): At this time, the majority of Blackfynn’s team is working remotely in the Greater Philadelphia area and we have transitioned to a remote-first organization.