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Senior Software Engineer II, Enterprise Platform

Lila Sciences · San Francisco, CA USA · San Francisco, CA

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Bio & Science AIonsitesenior$180k–$256k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Own enterprise primitives enabling autonomous science at real-world scale.
  • Build tenant lifecycle and self-serve onboarding for large organizations.
  • Design public APIs and agent integrations connecting agents and data.

What they offer

  • Competitive base compensation with bonus potential
  • Generous early-stage equity
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Employer-paid life and disability insurance
  • Flexible time off with company holidays
  • Paid parental leave
  • Educational assistance program

Ideal candidate

Senior backend builder who thrives in ambiguity and owns outcomes end-to-end. You care deeply about developer experience and secure, auditable platforms for science.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of backend software engineering with APIs, backend services, or platform infrastructure
  • Strong expertise in API design and versioning, multi-tenancy, auth, or backend services at scale
  • Solid in Python (e.g. FastAPI), Kubernetes, AWS, databases
  • Care about developer experience, clear errors, and backward compatibility
  • Ship working code regularly, debug production, and own systems end-to-end
  • Work well across infra, data, apps, and science teams under ambiguity

Lab profile

About Lila Sciences

Building an autonomous science platform where AI, automation, and biology co-evolve for medicine and materials.

What they build

  • Autonomous Science Platform
  • AI-designed biologics validated in wet-lab
  • Electro-optic materials and photonic devices

Known for

  • Large-scale automated data generation
  • High-throughput protein purification and analytics
  • Protein design and BioML modeling
  • Robotic orchestration and lab simulation
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