Senior Software Engineer, Scientific System of Record

About this role

Your Impact at LILA
Join us in shaping the future of science! We are seeking
Senior Software Engineers with full stack experience
to join our Scientific System of Record Team (SSR), where you’ll collaborate with software engineers, lab scientists, and machine learning engineers to build cutting-edge tools for automated scientific analysis and more. If you thrive in a collaborative, fast-paced environment and bring best practices in git, development workflows, and user-centered design, we want to hear from you!


About The Team
The Scientific System of Record Team (SSR) builds the memory layer for Lila's operations. It answers two questions:
*what did we plan to build?*
and
*what actually happened?*
These systems connect scientific intent to physical reality. Together with the data and automation teams, their systems ensure reproducibility and close the Design-Build-Test-Learn (DBTL) loop.


What You'll Be Building

• Lab Execution and Scientific Workflows: Build systems that model scientific intent, experiment planning, protocol execution, sample and asset state, operational events, and results capture across complex lab workflows.
• User Interfaces and APIs: Design and implement high-quality, secure, and well-documented UIs and APIs that support scientists, automation systems, ML workflows, and AI-driven applications.
• Application Development: Build front-end and backend services with a focus on performance, maintainability, and reliability.
• Data and System Modeling: Develop domain models, schemas, indexes, and data contracts across SQL, NoSQL, vector databases, data lakehouses, and other scientific data systems.
• Reliability, Performance, and Scale: Diagnose bottlenecks, improve system performance, and contribute to observability, reliability, and operational excellence for production systems.
• Cloud and Infrastructure: Use AWS services, Kubernetes, and modern DevOps practices to build and deploy production-grade systems.
• Cross-Funct...