Senior Front End Developer

With over 35 nationalities and a range of backgrounds represented in our Benevolent team, we aim to build an inclusive environment where our people can bring their authentic selves to work, be respected for who they are and the exceptional work they do. We welcome and actively encourage applications from all sections of society and are committed to offering equal employment opportunities regardless of sex, race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, parental status, disability, age, citizenship, or any other basis. We see our diversity as an asset as we tackle challenging problems that bridge the gap between drug discovery and technology.

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The Role

We are looking for a Senior Front End software engineer willing to work on an exciting greenfield project: a web-based platform for surfacing the power of our AI models and state of the art data analysis methods for scientists. Our goal is to bring together world-class Scientists and Machine Learning Researchers to accelerate the discovery of therapeutic treatments for human diseases. This is an ideal role if you are passionate about the Biomedical/ Medicinal Chemistry domains, user experience, data visualisation and machine learning, and if you would be excited by the opportunity to grow your skills in these areas.

We offer a great opportunity to explore and experiment with the state of the art tech stack and product to bring it to another level. You will also have the freedom to learn more within the role through regular in-house presentations and other training and develop your career in a highly challenging, but rewarding role.

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Primary Responsibilities

Responsible for driving the vision of the frontend architecture across multiple products
Work closely in an experienced and cross functional application team to help implement and deliver elegant solutions for a wide range of scientists.
Iterate rapidly based on user feedback and experiment with different ideas without losing sight of engineering quality.
Implement user interfaces using state of the art front end tools ideally with an interest in data visualisation too.
Collaborate with Biologists, Data scientists, AI/Machine Learning researchers, bio and cheminformaticians, and Chemists. We are all passionate about maintaining a consistent user experience across our products and value a willingness to be actively involved in other non-technical processes such as user and UX research.
Be pragmatic and flexible - adapting your approach to work on small prototypes, MVPs and long-lived products.
Be willing to share and champion your opinion on technical direction, and contribute to the mix of ideas.
Mentor, and be mentored by, other members of the team. Partake in and facilitate workshops, retros and other project sessions.

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We are looking for someone with

5+ years of commercial experience in front end web application development and with a genuine passion for elegant UI/UX solutions.
Strong attention to detail and a willingness to champion good design principles and translate them into code
The willingness to be flexible and a team player matter more to us than experience in set technologies, although experience using the following stack might be beneficial: Vue (or similar frameworks), Typescript, GraphQL, Webpack, Lerna, Jest, Cypress,
Knowledge of automated and manual testing approaches
Experience of Agile scrum, fast iterative environments, and version control.
You must be a strong communicator who can explain what is required to build and deliver great software products.

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We share a passion for being part of a mission that matters, and we are always looking for curious and collaborative people who share our values and want to be part of our journey. If that sounds like a fit for you, hit the apply button and join us.

About us

BenevolentAI unites AI with human expertise to discover new and more effective medicines. Our unique computational R&D platform spans every step of the drug discovery process, powering an in-house pipeline of over 25 drug programmes. We advance our mission to reinvent drug discovery by harnessing the power of a diverse team, rich with different backgrounds, experiences, opinions and personalities. In our offices in London and New York and research facility in Cambridge (UK), we work in highly collaborative, multidisciplinary teams, harnessing skills across biology, chemistry, engineering, AI, machine learning, informatics, precision medicine and drug discovery.

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