We help bring life-saving therapeutics to market cost-effectively

Remove (U.S. Based) - San Diego Preferred

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Auxilius is a fast-growing, venture-backed B2B SaaS company revolutionizing how innovative Biotechs manage clinical trial finances. We help clinical trial sponsors take control over trial costs, manage financial risk and optimize spending in pursuit of trial outcomes. While our product looks like software, we provide data, context and frameworks that help sponsors make decisions to achieve trial outcomes dynamically and cost-effectively.

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About the Role

We are seeking a highly motivated, customer-centric Accounting Technology Consultant to lead onboarding and ensure long-term customer success across our strategic biotech accounts. This role is perfect for a current or former accountant who thrives in client-facing roles, excels at managing complex implementations, and enjoys translating financial and technical details into actionable business solutions.

As the primary point of contact for our customers throughout onboarding and beyond, you'll play a pivotal role in ensuring successful adoption, satisfaction, and long-term value realization from the Auxilius platform.

This role is approximately 80–90% customer-facing, with a core focus on implementation execution, client project management, and strategic relationship management.

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Who are you?

You are a collaborative, data-driven, strategic thinker, and customer-obsessed. You are a relationship builder who constantly engages with our clients to ensure they are successful in their jobs. You are ready to roll up your sleeves to have an immediate impact!

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We’ll count on you to…

• Lead the onboarding and enablement process for new clients, ensuring a smooth transition to our platform with a focus on aligning solutions with their accounting workflows, financial reporting requirements, and operational controls.
• Provide expert-level support and consultation on accounting and finance functions, assisting clients in areas such as month-end close, budgeting, and forecasting to enhance efficiency and accuracy around clinical trial financial management.
• Champion customer success by proactively problem-solving for accounting of clinical trials, while driving engagement and assisting with audit-readiness.
• Act as the trusted liaison between your clients and our Product & Engineering teams, advocating for features and functionality that elevate the accounting function — and make month-end something to look forward to.
• Design and deliver training programs tailored to accounting and finance teams to boost adoption of system features, improve compliance, and reinforce best practices in financial management.
• Be a problem solver who thinks outside of the box when faced with high-severity client requests or escalations.
• Manage a portfolio of customers located on the West Coast; this role will be required to work in the Pacific time zone.
• Understand and communicate with different accounting & finance stakeholders including controllers and finance executives.
• Guide clients in documenting internal controls, preparing audit-ready support of clinical accruals, and aligning with regulatory standards such as SOX compliance and GAAP requirements.

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Preferred Skills and Qualifications

• BA/BS degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, or relevant fields.
• 2+ years of relevant work experience.
• CPA and/or public accounting experience required; Big-4 experience is a plus.
• Significant entrepreneurial drive, ability to create order from chaos, and willingness to roll up sleeves to directly solve problems.
• Interest or experience working with Life Sciences customers.
• Experience working directly with clients/customers.
• Proven ability to manage multiple projects at a time while being detail-oriented.
• Distinctive problem-solving and analytical skills combined with impeccable business judgment and strong experience with data and analytics tools.
• A sense of humor!

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Who are we?

We created Auxilius to fill the gap left by industry-agnostic tools and siloed clinical systems – solutions never designed for the realities of clinical finance. Auxilius pairs purpose-built software with a team of in-house experts to bring automation, accuracy, and audit-readiness to every budget, forecast, and close.

Auxilius was founded by senior executives from the healthcare information and financial services industries. The founding team has spent almost a decade building workflow and intelligence tools for the Life Sciences industry by infusing data into intuitive SaaS solutions. We are backed by top-tier investors and advised by industry leaders.

DevOps & Backend Engineer

Auxilius is a fast-growing, venture-backed B2B tech startup dedicated to helping innovative biotechs streamline their finance and accounting practices with a first-in-market software solution, and we are looking for a DevOps & Backend Engineer to be a key member of our team!

This role will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining our infrastructure and backend systems. You will build and optimize deployment pipelines, ensure efficient system operations, and contribute to product development while leveraging AI to enhance engineering productivity.

Who are you? You are a problem solver at heart, driven by curiosity and a passion for building scalable, reliable infrastructure! You enjoy working with cloud technologies and transforming manual processes into automated, efficient systems. You thrive in an autonomous environment where you can architect solutions from the ground up, and you take pride in writing clean, maintainable code and optimizing systems to support business growth!

We'll count on you to …

Infrastructure & DevOps (60%)

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable AWS infrastructure using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code principles
• Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines for rapid, reliable deployments across development, staging, and production environments
• Implement comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to ensure system reliability and performance
• Manage security best practices including secrets management, access controls, and compliance
• Optimize cloud costs and performance across all AWS environments while maintaining scalability
• Establish disaster recovery and backup strategies to ensure business continuity
• Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for all infrastructure components and processes

Backend Product Engineering (25%)

• Contribute to backend services and APIs that power our clinical trial financial management platform
• Collaborate with product and frontend teams on feature development and architectural decisions
• Implement performance optimizations and scalability improvements for our product
• Participate in code reviews and support debugging of production issues

AI-Enhanced Engineering (15%)

• Implement AI tools and workflows to improve engineering productivity and automate repetitive tasks
• Evaluate and integrate AI tools for code generation, testing, and deployment processes
• Share knowledge and best practices around AI tooling with the engineering team
• Stay abreast of industry trends and advancements in DevOps, cloud technologies, and AI tooling to continually improve processes and systems

Preferred Skills and Qualifications

• A bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field is preferred
• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, infrastructure, or backend engineering, preferably within a startup or fast-paced environment
• AWS Expertise: Strong hands-on experience with core AWS services (EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, etc.)
• Terraform Proficiency: Proven experience with Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and management
• Backend Development: Solid programming skills in one or more backend languages (Python, Go, Node.js, etc.)
• CI/CD: Experience building and maintaining deployment pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, etc.)
• Containerization: Proficiency with Docker and container orchestration (Kubernetes, ECS, etc.)
• Experience implementing AI tools for engineering workflows (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, ChatGPT, Claude, etc.)
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to think outside the box, architect complex systems, and present solutions clearly and concisely
• Self-motivated individual with a strong sense of ownership and the ability to work independently
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate ideas, collaborate effectively, and present information to both technical and non-technical audiences
• High level of accuracy and attention to detail in all aspects of work
• A sense of humor!

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Who are we? Auxilius built data-driven, clinical trial financial management software for Biotechs. We help clinical trial Sponsors take control over trial costs, manage financial risk, and optimize spending in pursuit of trial outcomes. While our product looks like software, we are providing data, context, and frameworks that help Sponsors make decisions to achieve trial outcomes dynamically and cost-effectively — empowering teams of PhDs to bring drugs to market faster.

Auxilius was founded by senior executives from the healthcare information and financial services industries. The founding team has spent almost a decade building workflow and intelligence tools for the Life Sciences industry by infusing data into intuitive SaaS solutions. We are backed by top-tier investors and advised by industry leaders.