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A Rare Opportunity to Shape the Future of Genomics
Join a team of brilliant, passionate innovators determined to transform healthcare. At BillionToOne, we've built a category-defining, publicly traded company on Nasdaq where transparency fuels trust, collaboration drives breakthroughs, and every contribution moves the needle on our mission to make life-changing diagnostics accessible to all. We don't just aim for incremental improvements; we build products that are 10x better than anything that exists today.
Our scientists, engineers, sales executives, and visionaries are united by an unwavering commitment to changing the standard of care in prenatal and cancer diagnostics. This is where cutting-edge science meets human compassion, and every innovation you contribute helps remove the fear of the unknown from some of life's most critical medical moments.
If you're driven by purpose, energized by innovation, and ready to help shape the future of precision medicine at scale, this is where you belong.
We are currently looking for a high-performing Senior Software Engineer to join our dynamic software engineering team. Software engineers at BillionToOne work in highly collaborative and interdisciplinary teams of clinicians, computational biologists, and other engineers to robustly scale personalized genomic medicine to millions of patients. If you have experience performing in a full life-cycle development, love seeing your work positively affect your colleagues and patients, and thrive in a fast-paced entrepreneurial environment, this could be a great opportunity for you. In this role, you can have an impact both through many small tools and large product development. This role is a hybrid (onsite 2-3 days/week) position.
Projects you may work on include:
- Build a seamless digital experience so clinicians and patients across a diversity of care centers and socioeconomic status can have access to BillionToOne’s highly complex genetic testing
- Help digitize laborious and error-prone paper-based workflows at busy OBGYN clinics
- Enable better transfer of care through portable electronic medical records
- Infuse joyful experiences into pregnancy
Technologies we use include: Python, Django, Postgres, React, Typescript, AWS, Salesforce, and emerging AI-assisted coding environments (e.g., Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code)
Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain robust applications and systems using React, Typescript, Django, Postgres, and other libraries.
- Collaborate with product design and product management to deliver delightful experiences for patients and providers.
- Foster a knowledge sharing culture within the team, contributing to the growth and development of colleagues through mentorship and collaborative learning.
- Demonstrate a creative and out-of-the-box mindset, offering innovative solutions and approaches to complex technical challenges.
- Prioritize quality by writing comprehensive unit tests and ensuring adequate test coverage across all components and modules.
- Demonstrate a strong sense of ownership and take responsibility for end-to-end project delivery. The ideal candidate will thrive in an environment where they have the autonomy to make informed decisions and take the initiative to drive projects forward.
- Champion engineering excellence through architectural best practices, code quality standards, and thoughtful code reviews that emphasize both functionality and security.
- Apply a security and compliance mindset ensuring adherence to relevant regulations while implementing appropriate safeguards for sensitive patient information.
- Confidently challenge ideas and assumptions from stakeholders when necessary, while at the same time, leverage their expertise and insights to improve the overall solution.
Requirements:
- 5+ years of professional software development experience with a proven track record of delivering complex projects and adhering to best practices
- Deep experience with modern frontend technologies, specifically with Typescript, React, and CSS-in-JS libraries
- Have implemented frontend architecture best practices such as component systems, npm workspaces, Storybook, and Playwright testing
- Experience with web frameworks such as Django
- Familiarity with modern AI-driven development practices and tools.
- Excited about working in-person with our team in Menlo Park
Nice-to-haves:
- Previous startup or entrepreneurial experience
- Experience in driving products from zero to one
- Familiarity with healthcare data and standards like FHIR and HL7
- Interest in engaging with and applying LLMs
Benefits And Perks:
- Working alongside brilliant, kind, passionate and dedicated colleagues, in an empowering environment, toward a global vision, striving for a future in which transformative molecular diagnostics can help millions of patients
- Open, transparent culture that includes weekly Town Hall meetings
- The ability to indirectly or directly change the lives of hundreds of thousands patients
- Multiple medical benefit options; employee premiums paid 100% of select plans, dependents covered up to 80%
- Extremely generous Family Bonding Leave for eligible employees (16 weeks, paid at 100%)
- Supplemental fertility benefits coverage
- Retirement savings program including a 4% Company match
- Increase paid time off with increased tenure
- Latest and greatest hardware (laptop, lab equipment, facilities)
- Daily on-site lunches provided from top eateries
- A variety of perks on campus (state of the art gym, restaurant)
- Free on-site EV charging (compatible with all EVs, including Tesla)
At BillionToOne, we are proud to offer a combination of a (1) base pay range (actual amount offered is based on experience and salary/equity options split that the candidate chooses), (2) generous equity options offering, (3) corporate bonus program, on top of (4) industry leading company benefits (free healthcare options, 401k match, very generous fully paid parental leave, etc.).
The base salary range for this role is $195,826 to $217,585. This position is eligible for an annual bonus and receives a new hire equity grant of up to $85,000 at grant value, vesting over four years, plus annual equity refresh grants equal in value to the new hire grant. Together, the total four-year value of base, target bonus, and equity is up to approximately $1.2 million. We also offer competitive medical and dental coverage and a 401(k) with company match.
BillionToOne is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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BillionToOne is a next-generation molecular diagnostics company on a mission to make powerful, accurate diagnostic tests accessible to everyone. Our revolutionary QCT molecular counting technology enhances disease detection resolution by over a thousandfold using cell-free DNA,a breakthrough that has already transformed the lives of over half a million patients worldwide.
Our Impact
Unity Complete™ is the only non-invasive prenatal screen capable of assessing fetal risk for both common recessive conditions and aneuploidies from a single maternal blood sample. Unity Confirm™ enables non-invasive confirmation for high-risk screening results through the capture of intact circulating fetal cells using BillionToOne’s Fetal Cell Capture™ Technology. Our Northstar® liquid biopsy test uniquely combines treatment selection with real-time monitoring, giving oncologists unprecedented precision in cancer care.
Our Growth
From $0 to $400M+ annualized revenue run-rate in just 6 years. In 2025, we completed one of the most successful IPOs for a medical diagnostics company, building on nearly $400M in private funding,including our $130M Series D in 2024 and backed by world-class investors including Hummingbird, Adams Street Partners, Neuberger Berman, Baillie Gifford, and Premji Invest.
Our Recognition
Forbes named us one of America's Best Startup Employers for 2025 and we're Great Place to Work certified, with 100% of our people willing to go the extra mile, even as we've scaled to over 700 employees.
Our Future
Headquartered in Menlo Park with facilities in Union City, CA, and a new lab opening in Austin, TX in 2027, we're continuing to push the boundaries of what's possible in molecular diagnostics. We're just getting started.
Ready to help us change the world, one molecule at a time? Learn more at billiontoone.com
