Overview

We’re on a quest for an extraordinary software engineer who will join us to build and maintain clean, modern applications.

You are a self-starter with a bias for action, and you can take projects from start to finish. You want to work as part of a small, tightly-knit team that moves quickly and pushes changes to production many times a day. You always admired your friends in science, but your knack for computers led you to programming.

Why Quartzy

Quartzy is the world’s #1 lab management platform. Every day, hundreds of thousands of scientists from all over the world improve the efficiency of their research by using Quartzy. Our team is passionate about accelerating scientific research through well-designed, meaningful tools for labs and companies alike. We value openness, transparency, and good communication, because, after all, we are in this together.

What you’ll do

  • Design and implement new functionality from the ground up
  • Work closely with your team to design and develop a robust REST API
  • Measure and improve site performance and scalability
  • Write well-tested code that is resilient to heavy iteration

What we’re looking for

  • Demonstrable experience writing clean, thoughtfully crafted PHP that scales
  • You have experience with other parts of our technology stack: MySQL, Redis, Beanstalkd, RabbitMQ, nginx, Git.
  • You have the ability and desire to own projects that directly impact Quartzy’s bottom line.
  • An entrepreneurial attitude that gets high-quality projects done quickly
  • You are a strong communicator. You write well and can easily explain complex technical concepts to non-technical people.

What we’d love

  • Background working with mission-critical financial systems
  • Experience with the integration of external financial or ERP systems
  • Familiarity with asynchronous worker queues
  • Experience working in a dynamic startup environment
  • Occasionally, you end the day with more lines of code removed than added; and that feels great

Does that sound like you? We’d love to hear from you.

About Quartzy

The world’s No. 1 lab management platform. We help scientists easily organize orders, manage inventory, and save money. Quartzy is free and always will be.

 If the 20th Century was the age of physics, the 21st Century is the age of biology. Discoveries like optogenetics and CRISPR already allow us to work with single neurons and change the genomes of living cells. Life scientists are revolutionizing our world… and they'll spend $180 billion on research this year as they do.Given the high speed of innovation, it's no surprise that the tools used to manage lab research haven't kept pace. Spreadsheets, email and sticky notes just aren't enough. They actually hold back research as they waste valuable time and money.

Quartzy is changing all of that. Our breakthrough platform helps life scientists and lab managers handle, order and optimize their resources day by day.

The New York Stem Cell Foundation uses Quartzy as it hunts for cures for diabetes and ALS. Impossible Foods uses Quartzy as it invents new plant-based proteins. More than 10,000 other startups, nonprofits, multi-nationals and leading academic labs now use Quartzy; we're well on our way to becoming the global standard for lab management.

Yet our journey has just begun. We need your help. Come join us as we build a product, a company and an enduring culture that can speed the pace of scientific discovery and make a true impact in the world.