Full Stack Software Engineer, Lab Platform (LIMS)

Insitro
United States
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 111,000 - 140,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 2+ yearsSkills: ["Product thinking","Curiosity","Tradeoff analysis","Design documentation","Code review"]

Build and ship full-stack features for an agentic Lab Platform that connects scientists to lab instruments, Benchling, and agent runtimes. Own work end to end—from initial conversations and data modeling through the UI and alerting when workflows break—while partnering with machine learning, automation, and biology teams. You’ll write React/TypeScript frontends, Python backend services, and integrations, testing agentic tooling ideas with real users and rapid iteration.

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Insitro
Insitro
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Full Stack Software Engineer, Lab Platform (LIMS)

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Job Summary

Build and ship full-stack features for an agentic Lab Platform that connects scientists to lab instruments, Benchling, and agent runtimes. Own work end to end—from initial conversations and data modeling through the UI and alerting when workflows break—while partnering with machine learning, automation, and biology teams. You’ll write React/TypeScript frontends, Python backend services, and integrations, testing agentic tooling ideas with real users and rapid iteration.
Location: United States
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Build React and TypeScript frontends and Python services behind them, plus integrations to instruments, Benchling, and agent runtimes.
  • •Own features end to end from first scientist conversations through data model and UI to production alerts when workflows break.
  • •Write code and review design docs, and do code reviews to improve the codebase.
  • •Prototype and evaluate agentic tooling ideas with real users and iterative loops.
  • •Partner cross-functionally by observing lab workflows and designing for provenance and verifiability so scientists can check what an agent did and why.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 111,000 - 140,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:401kHealth InsuranceDentalVisionPaid LeaveLearning BudgetHome OfficeCell PhoneInternet StipendCommuter Benefits

Key Requirements

  • •2–4+ years of experience as a professional software engineer.
  • •Working knowledge of AWS or GCP, relational databases, and standard practices like version control and code review.
  • •You think like a product person—understand the user and what they’re trying to do, and form opinions on what to build.
  • •You’re curious about the science and want to learn the domain rather than treating it as someone else’s problem.
  • •Comfortable reasoning about tradeoffs between quality and speed, and contributing via design docs and code reviews.
Experience:2+ yearsLife sciencesDrug developmentMachine learningRoboticsWorkflow automation
Skills:Product thinkingCuriosityTradeoff analysisDesign documentationCode review
Tech Stack:ReactTypeScriptPythonAWSGCPRelational databasesVersion controlDjangoFastAPISQLAlchemyPostgreSQLDockerLLMsAgent frameworksBenchling

Company Brief

Insitro
Insitro is a machine-learning-driven drug discovery and development company that integrates high-throughput biology, human genetics, and AI to identify therapeutic targets and design medicines across metabolic and neurodegenerative diseases.
Industry: Biotech
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Funding: Series C
Headquarters: South San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2018
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