Engineering Manager - Search and Discovery

At BioRender, our mission is to accelerate the world’s ability to learn, discover and communicate science. We are passionate about democratizing science communication in order to accelerate scientific discovery and understanding. We're looking for amazing people to help create the world’s go-to-place where science is communicated. Come join us!

You can think of BioRender as the “Figma or Canva for scientists,” with a suite of web-based graphics communication products that empower scientists to create beautiful scientific visuals and presentations with ease.

As an Engineering Manager leading Search and Discovery, you will help accelerate our ability to return billions of hours to scientists by empowering them with the most relevant content in the most highly trafficked part of our application: the core illustrator. We want to help scientists find the science they're looking for in their own language, and build a 'visual auto complete' that can personalize and anticipate what scientific content would be most relevant to a scientist using our product. You will lead the strategic direction for how we can make BioRender as revolutionary as the breakthroughs communicated using our product.  

What you'll do at BioRender:

• People: Lead, nurture and grow a high-performing team to deliver an incredible amount of user value

• Product: Collaborate with product and design to deeply understand the user, the product problem space, and how engineering can accelerate product advancements

• Execution / Delivery: Lead your team to deliver search and personalization systems to empower users to instantly find the content they are looking for. We are looking for an engineering leader who'll be comfortable doing anything from working with the platform team to set up new python services, to working with data engineering to enable a new data streams, to working with legal to work through privacy issues

• Technical depth: Facilitate great technical decision-making across a broad technical stack, having passion for the technical aspects of your work, but a desire to let engineers drive the details

What we Value:

• Have experience managing a cross functional engineering team with embedded ML engineers that developed impactful solutions of machine learning & NLP problems at scale to production applications, i.e, search (keyword and semantic), embeddings, reranking, recommendation, personalization

• Successful track record managing a high performing product engineering team of 5-8 engineers and consistently delivering value to users (2+ years of management experience)

• Previous experience delivering large-scale, reliable systems that require a lot of cross functional collaboration

• A technical background that gives you the ability to relate to the team's problems, facilitate discussion, and guide/coach engineers when making tradeoffs and technical decisions. (7+ years of software engineering experience)

Why Join Us?

• We are mission-driven, and work collaboratively towards our shared vision of improving scientific communication and accelerating scientific discovery: BioRender figures have appeared in more than 54,000 publications! 

• It’s a product that users love! We have a world-class NPS and a community of loyal fans. Check out our Testimonials page to see what our customers are saying about us: https://biorender.com/testimonials/ 

• We are in the top quartile for profitability and year-over-year revenue growth, with users in 200+ countries.

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BioRender is an equal opportunity employer, and an inclusive hiring process and work environment is a part of our DNA. We’re remote-first and have team members across Canada and the United States. A physical office in Toronto is available, but you have the flexibility to work from anywhere. We’re backed by top investors, accelerators, and some of the most successful life science entrepreneurs and philanthropists in the world including Y Combinator, Malala Fund founders, and Fifty Years VC. We are committed to building a warm, inclusive, and diverse environment. Check out how we make sure our employees come first.