Senior Backend Developer - EQUITY ONLY FOR NOW!

EQUITY ONLY
DO NOT APPLY IF YOU ARE NOT OK WITH EQUITY ONLY. THIS IS A STARTUP, YOU CAN'T NEGOTIATE A SALARY. WE WILL REJECT YOU THE MOMENT YOU ASK.

NERG Culture:
If you passionate about harnessing the power of biotechnology to unlock human potential. If you're interested in building a AI company that pioneers innovative solutions to enhance human capabilities, whether through personalized medicine, bioinformatics, or wearable health tech. If you are willing to work hard and keep your commitments, you've found you home. Come be a part of a growing team that is set on changing the world.

Welcome To NERG:
If your passion lies in harnessing the power of biotechnology to unlock human potential. If you're interested in building a bio-tech company that pioneers innovative solutions to enhance human capabilities, whether through personalized medicine, bioinformatics, or wearable health tech. If you're an A+ player who believes in betting on yourself, you have found your home! Come help us change the world!

The Day To Day Work:
We are looking for a Back-End Web Developer responsible for managing the interchange of data between the server and the users. Your primary focus will be development of all server-side logic, definition and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end. You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by your coworkers into the application. A basic understanding of front-end technologies is therefore necessary as well.

Responsibilities:

1. Integration of user-facing elements developed by a front-end developers with server side logic.
2. Building reusable code and libraries for future use.
3. Optimization of the application for maximum speed and scalability
4. Implementation of security and data protection
5. Design and implementation of data storage solutions

Required Skill Set:

1. Basic understanding of front-end technologies and platforms, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3.
2. Good understanding of server-side CSS preprocessors, such as LESS and SASS.
3. Understanding accessibility and security compliance.
4. User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments.
5. Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system.
6. Management of hosting environment, including database administration and scaling an application to support load changes.
7. Data migration, transformation, and scripting.
8. Setup and administration of backups.
9. Outputting data in different formats.
10. Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms such as mobile vs desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform.
11. Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
12. Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
13. Proficient knowledge of a back-end programming language(s) node.js and/ore python.
14. Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.
15. Proficient understanding of OWASP security principles.
16. Understanding of “session management” in a distributed server environment.

Higher equity based on additonal skill sets
Biostatistician, Data Scientist, Machine Learning Engineer, Master Degree in Computer Science, Primary Programming Langauge is Python.