Senior Software Engineer, Data
Lila Sciences5 months ago
Base Salary
$144k - $288k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build high-performance, secure, well-documented APIs for AI-driven applications.
- Develop schemas and manage SQL, NoSQL, vector database, and other data systems for performance and scalability.
- Diagnose and optimize bottlenecks to maintain high availability and low-latency performance at scale.
- Use AWS, Kubernetes, and DevOps practices to build and deploy production-grade systems.
- Collaborate with ML researchers, engineers, scientists, data engineers, and product teams to integrate data pipelines, APIs, and cloud infrastructure into scientific workflows.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- At least 5 years of engineering experience building and deploying large-scale backend systems in production.
- Hands-on AWS experience and strong knowledge of Kubernetes, containerization, infrastructure-as-code, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience with SQLAlchemy, SQLModel, FastAPI, or Django for web services and CRUD services.
- Experience with Airflow, Prefect, Temporal, or Dagster orchestration tools.
- Experience developing full-stack web applications using React, TypeScript, Nx monorepos, Tailwind, FastAPI, SQL or NoSQL systems, Python, and Pydantic.
- Hands-on experience using AI coding assistants is required.
- Strong cross-functional communication, listening, problem-solving, and backend design skills.
- Bonus: familiarity with pandas, NumPy, SciPy, JAX, or PyTorch; laboratory software or life and material sciences; laboratory devices, robotics, or hardware.
Benefits
- Full-time U.S. employees receive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Employer-paid life and disability insurance are provided.
- Benefits include flexible time off, company-wide holidays, paid parental leave, educational assistance, commuter benefits, and a subsidized lunch program.
- International full-time employees receive benefits tailored to their region.
Tech Stack
Apache AirflowAWSDjangoFastAPIGitGitHub ActionsKubernetesNumPyPandasPythonPyTorchReactSciPySQLTailwind CSSTerraformTypeScript
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About Lila Sciences
Lila Sciences builds an AI-driven research platform and autonomous lab systems for life science, chemistry, and materials R&D teams. Its products combine large AI models with robotic instruments to plan, run, and analyze experiments, integrating into customer-specific scientific workflows. The privately held company serves pharma, materials, and energy organizations and is venture-backed, including a Series A financing in 2025.