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Full Stack Software Engineer, Lab Platform (LIMS)

insitro· Software Engineering
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South San Francisco, CA$111k - $140kFull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Software role building the Lab Platform (LIMS) at insitro, a full-stack position spanning frontend, backend, and instrument/partner integrations to enable agentic lab workflows for scientists in a hybrid in-person setup in South San Francisco.

Responsibilities

  • Ship Across the Stack: Build the React and TypeScript frontends scientists use every day, the Python services behind them, and integrations that reach instruments, Benchling, and agent runtimes
  • Own It End to End: Take a feature from the first conversation with a scientist through the data model and UI to the alert that fires when it breaks
  • Do the Normal SWE Things: Write code, review design docs, talk to users, and do code reviews that actually make the codebase better
  • Chase User Appreciation: Ship things that make scientists say "OMG, this is amazing, thank you so much."
  • Figure Out What\'s Actually Useful: Test agentic tooling ideas through prototypes, real users, and short iterative loops rather than betting on theory
  • Move the Needle: Contribute work that meaningfully advances insitro\'s mission and the pace of drug development
  • Go Watch the Work: Spend time in the lab observing the workflow before you change it
  • Partner Broadly: Collaborate closely with machine learning, automation, and biology teams to build tools people actually use
  • Keep Humans in the Loop: Design for provenance and verifiability, so a scientist can always check what an agent did and why

Qualifications

  • Tenure: 2–4+ years of experience as a professional software engineer
  • Engineering Fundamentals: Working knowledge of AWS or GCP, relational databases, and standard practices like version control and code review

Skills

Required:ReactTypeScriptPythonAWS or GCP
Nice to have:PostgreSQL

Benefits

  • 401(k) plan with employer matching for contributions
  • Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage as well as mental health and well-being support
  • Open, flexible vacation policy
  • Paid parental leave of at least 16 weeks to support parents who give birth, and 10 weeks for a new parent (inclusive of birth, adoption, fostering, etc)
  • Quarterly budget for books and online courses for self-development
  • New hire stipend for home office setup
  • Monthly cell phone & internet stipend
  • Access to free onsite baristas and daily lunch for employees who are either onsite or hybrid
  • Access to a free commuter bus network that provides transport to and from our South San Francisco HQ from locations all around the Bay Area
Last updated Sep 24, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About insitro

Making Medicines Differently

At insitro, we are building a different kind of drug company to bring better drugs faster to the patients who can benefit most. Through the power of machine learning (ML) and data at scale, we decode the complexities of biology to unlock transformative new medicines.

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