Product Engineer at Centaur Labs (W19)
$120 - $160K
Labeling medical data at scale
Boston, MA / Remote (US)
Full-time
US citizen/visa only
3+ years
About Centaur Labs

At Centaur Labs, we label data at scale to enable breakthroughs in medical AI. Our novel approach uses collective intelligence to aggregate medical opinions from experts and students all over the world. Our labeling customers include leading AI startups and prominent research organizations. We are a small, tight-knit team headquartered in Boston, and we're funded by Y Combinator, Accel, and GFC.

About the role
Skills: React, JavaScript, TypeScript

Product Engineer

We’re looking for a creative front-end developer to join our product team and help deliver a fast, modern web app to delight our customers.

Responsibilities:

  • Intuitive, rich interfaces that communicate just enough information while inviting the user to learn more
  • Streamlined workflows to enable uploading large datasets from a variety of sources
  • Custom media tools (image/video/text) to help label data accurately and efficiently
  • Effective use of techniques like caching, multipart file uploads, and async updates to ensure a smooth and responsive UX
  • UI components and patterns that enable our team to quickly ship new features

Requirements:

  • 3+ years of experience in full-time roles using JavaScript/TypeScript
  • Ability to balance quality with speed, and refactor as you go
  • Motivated by solving hard & unique problems, continually advocating for the customer
  • Experience shipping production code at a fast-growing startup

Preferred:

  • Opinions about design, copy, and UI/UX
  • Backend experience (application servers, database, etc)
  • Prefers simplicity over complexity
  • EST or CST time zone

Benefits:

  • Competitive equity grant in a Series A company
  • Work remote
  • Yearly professional development stipend
  • Generous PTO and parental leave

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Centaur Labs, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace — so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You might just be the right candidate for this or other roles!

Technology

We use React.js and Swift on the frontend, and Python and Swift (Vapor) on the backend. Our data store is PostgreSQL, and we're hosted on AWS.

Centaur faces a wide variety of difficult technical problems, from efficiently serving millions of images and videos to our users, to ensuring our platform is secure and our valuable data sets remain private, to performing complex analysis on our users' performance and building machine learning models to take our decision making capabilities to the next level.

Interview Process
  • Phone screen (20 mins)
  • Technical interview (1 hr)
  • Panel interview (3 hrs)
  • Offer!

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