# Senior Software Engineer II, Trial Engine at Formation Bio

- Company: Formation Bio
- What the company does: Building the pharma company of the future. Backed by Sequoia, a16z and Felicis.
- Company website: https://www.formation.bio/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: New York, NY; Boston, MA; San Francisco, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $214K to $267K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-31
- Apply by: 2026-10-15
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/formationbio/jobs/8167853
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/formation-bio-senior-software-engineer-ii-trial-engine/

## About the role

Where We Hire Formation Bio is prioritizing hiring in key hubs, primarily the New York City and Boston metro areas, with a hybrid model requiring 3 days per week in office. Applicants from the Research Triangle (NC) and San Francisco Bay Area may also be considered. Please apply only if you reside in these locations or are willing to relocate .

## What they're looking for

- You see regulation as a design constraint to work within, not a reason systems cannot improve. You can help translate regulatory requirements into software that is both compliant and well engineered
- A strong builder: clean, maintainable code, solid distributed systems and cloud fundamentals (AWS, GCP, or Azure), and the judgment to know when to build for the next five years and when to build for next week
- Track record of technical ownership at senior scope: multi-quarter efforts, cross-functional dependencies, and designs that other engineers built on
- Excellent communicator with non-engineers. You can sit with a clinical operations lead or a QA director, understand their world, and align on an approach
- Comfortable with ambiguity. Our trial portfolio and our approach both change, the roadmap you inherit will not be the one you finish

Tags: Engineering