Engineering Manager, Scientific Platforms in Toronto

At Recursion, we are pioneering the integration of technological innovations across biology, chemistry, automation, data science, and engineering to modernize drug discovery and development. Today we have 5 drugs in clinical trials, 2 in preclinical and 2 in late discovery. There are more than a dozen early discovery and research programs in oncology, neuroscience, inflammation & immunology, and rare disease. Since 2017, we have approximately doubled the capacity of our phenomics platform each year and scaled the number of executed phenomic experiments to up to 2.2 million every week, resulting in >21 petabytes of proprietary high-dimensional data.

Reporting to the Associate Director of Engineering for the Scientific Platforms in the Recursion OS, the Engineering Manager will work to provide first-in-class capabilities and infrastructure that provides robust, configurable, automatable experiment configuration and execution readiness on our Scientific Platforms.

• Act as a mentor, coach, and sponsor: You will share your technical and nontechnical knowledge and experiences, delivering impact, learning, and growth across teams at Recursion.
• Enable your teams for scale: You will support your engineering team to build robust, configurable, automatable experiment configuration and execution readiness. Provide technical assistance to the team, facilitating their ability to scale effectively.
• Create a culture of platforms: You will partner to drive the vision and adoption of platforms broadly at Recursion, advocate for cross-functional teams and leaders to accelerate work using the platforms we have, and understand their needs to inform the platforms we will build.
• Build relatability into a heterogeneous dataset: At Recursion, we generate datasets based on a wide swath of diverse biological models and treatment approaches. You'll work with Data Scientists to build relatability and queryability into these datasets.
• Provide visibility into operations: You'll create tools to help analyze pre-execution & execution conditions and track the provenance of key drug development decisions.

The Team You’ll Join: The Scientific Platforms team develops platforms for every step of the process of exploring biological data. This includes creating reusable, composable solutions for designing, tracking, and executing experiments, transmitting and archiving the resulting data, and running arbitrary analysis code against all that we have discovered. This is an ideal team for someone who isn't fazed by ambiguity and is eager to tackle challenging issues.

The Experience You’ll Need:

• Experience leading technical teams using both technical and interpersonal skills to achieve results.
• Demonstrates a past record of learning from, and teaching peers in areas of performance, scalability, and system architecture.
• Significant experience as a software engineer, working on multi-tier systems.
• Experience delivering projects with significant ambiguity and technical complexity, ideally spanning multiple production systems and involving diverse technologies.
• A people-first mindset.
• Our current tech stack uses JavaScript, React, Python, Golang, Kafka, Cloud Composer, PostgreSQL, Docker, and Kubernetes, on cloud services provided by Google Cloud Platform.
• Biology or chemistry background is not necessary, but intellectual curiosity is a must!

How You’ll be Supported:

• Peer mentor assigned for onboarding during first 90 days.
• Regular 1:1s with supervisor for support and feedback.
• Leadership Training.
• Dedicated sessions to walkthrough services/systems, that you will support.
• 1-on-1 introductions with cross-functional leaders, that you will partner closely with.
• Opportunities to work with leadership coaches.
• A support group of peer engineering managers.

Recursion believes that every employee should be compensated fairly. Based on the skill and level of experience required for this role, the estimated current annual base range for this role is:

• Developing: $209,000 CAD
• Skilled: $222,000 CAD
• Expert: $237,000 CAD

The Values That We Hope You Share:

• We Care: We care about our drug candidates, our Recursionauts, their families, each other, our communities, the patients we aim to serve and their loved ones.
• We Learn: Learning from the diverse perspectives of our fellow Recursionauts, and from failure, is an essential part of how we make progress.
• We Deliver: We are unapologetic that our expectations for delivery are extraordinarily high.
• Act Boldly with Integrity: No company changes the world or reinvents an industry without being bold.
• We are One Recursion: We operate with a 'company first, team second' mentality.

More About Recursion: Recursion is a clinical stage TechBio company leading the space by decoding biology to industrialize drug discovery. Enabling its mission is the Recursion OS, a platform built across diverse technologies that continuously expands one of the world’s largest proprietary biological and chemical datasets.