Senior Full Stack Engineer | Luma

Responsibilities

• Lead development of complex features across microservices, owning backend services and the frontend experiences they support.
• Design, build, and maintain serverless and event-driven data pipelines for high-volume scientific data.
• Build asynchronous, non-blocking services and scalable APIs.
• Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code and identify technical debt and architectural improvements.
• Collaborate with engineers to build intuitive interfaces for complex scientific research workflows.
• Provide technical guidance through code reviews and pair programming.
• Implement observability and participate in production deployment and monitoring.
• Potentially lead small project teams or act as a feature lead while mentoring engineers.

Requirements

• 8+ years of engineering experience, preferably in a SaaS environment.
• Strong commercial experience building backend services with Node.js and modern frontend applications with React.
• Strong experience designing, building, and consuming RESTful APIs.
• Strong proficiency with PostgreSQL and relational database design.
• Experience with microservices, event-driven architectures, asynchronous programming patterns, and distributed systems.
• Hands-on production experience with AWS services.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes for containerization and orchestration.
• Experience with automated unit, integration, and end-to-end testing and CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or AWS CodePipeline.
• Strong written and spoken English communication skills.
• A degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience is preferred.
• Experience with complex data ingestion or processing workflows, messaging bots, Terraform, multi-cloud systems, project leadership, mentoring, or life sciences and R&D data management is advantageous.

Benefits

• Remote-friendly work environment
• Equal opportunity and inclusive workplace