Senior Software Engineer II, Enterprise Platform

Lila Sciences
San Francisco
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 180,000 - 256,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 7+ yearsSkills: ["Technical judgment","Developer experience focus","Clear communication","Backward compatibility thinking","End-to-end ownership"]

Own critical enterprise platform systems that power multi-tenant lifecycle, authorization, and auditability, plus a developer ecosystem of public APIs, SDKs, and MCP integrations. Build resilient backend services and schema designs in Python/FastAPI, collaborating closely with infrastructure, data, apps, and science teams. Operate with high autonomy—ship regularly, debug production, and make sound engineering tradeoffs for regulated deployments and first-class internal scientists.

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Lila Sciences
Lila Sciences
2 months ago

Senior Software Engineer II, Enterprise Platform

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Job Summary

Own critical enterprise platform systems that power multi-tenant lifecycle, authorization, and auditability, plus a developer ecosystem of public APIs, SDKs, and MCP integrations. Build resilient backend services and schema designs in Python/FastAPI, collaborating closely with infrastructure, data, apps, and science teams. Operate with high autonomy—ship regularly, debug production, and make sound engineering tradeoffs for regulated deployments and first-class internal scientists.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Build secure tenant isolation, authentication, authorization, and audit for customer organizations, including regulated deployment requirements.
  • •Develop tenant provisioning, self-serve administration, and customer onboarding lifecycle services, including billing/pricing/metering surfaces.
  • •Own and evolve public APIs (REST, streaming, async) and ship developer SDKs and agent tool/function interfaces.
  • •Build MCP/agent integration paths, including scoping, isolating, and trusting customer-provided integrations within a tenant.
  • •Operate the platform in production: ship regularly, debug production issues, and make engineering tradeoffs with high autonomy.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 180,000 - 256,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVisionLife InsuranceDisability InsurancePaid ParentalCommuter BenefitsMeal Allowance

Key Requirements

  • •7+ years of backend software engineering with meaningful experience in APIs, backend services, or platform infrastructure.
  • •Strong expertise in API design/versioning, multi-tenancy, authentication/authorization, or backend services at scale.
  • •Proficiency with Python (FastAPI), Kubernetes, AWS, and databases (SQL or document).
  • •Strong developer experience focus, including writing clear errors and maintaining backward compatibility.
  • •Ability to ship working code regularly, debug production issues, and own systems end-to-end.
Experience:7+ years
Skills:Technical judgmentDeveloper experience focusClear communicationBackward compatibility thinkingEnd-to-end ownership
Languages:English
Tech Stack:PythonFastAPIKubernetesAWSSQLRESTStreamingAsyncSDKsMCPOpenAPIOIDCOAuth 2.0Document databasesOPA

Company Brief

Lila Sciences
Develops AI-driven platforms to accelerate drug discovery and biological research by integrating machine learning with chemical and biological data to predict molecular properties, streamline candidate selection, and enable faster therapeutic development.
Industry: Biotech
Company Size: Small (11 to 50 employees)
Growth: Early Stage Startup
Funding: Seed
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