Automata

Staff Software Engineer, Front End

London, UK
API PostgreSQL DynamoDB AWS Terraform Kafka gRPC Microservices React Go Rust TypeScript Python SQL Couchbase Dart
Description

Level5
Salary band£110,000 - £120,000
Bonus: 10% performance-based, discretionary
LocationHybrid - work in our office in London HQ 2x/week 


At Automatawe're on a mission to transform how scientists work by making automation accessible to every lab in the world. We believe that by giving labs the power to automate, we can unlock discoveries that will shape the future of life sciences—from diagnostics and drug discovery to synthetic biology.

But we’re more than just a company disrupting the industry—we're a team of innovators, problem-solvers, and creators passionate about empowering scientists. Our LINQ platform combines hardware and software to streamline workflows, making lab automation fast, flexible, and affordable. This means our customers can focus on groundbreaking research, while we take care of the rest.

Why Work at Automata?

  • Impact: Your work will directly contribute to advancements in science and medicine, supporting labs around the globe as they push boundaries in research and innovation.
  • Innovation: You’ll be part of a team solving complex problems (seriously, no one else has figured out how to do this yet), using cutting-edge technology (we have robots).
  • GrowthWe invest in our people. Whether through hands-on experience, professional development, or collaborative projects, you’ll grow both professionally and personally.
  • Community: Join a diverse, passionate team that values collaboration (golf on a Thursday, Soccer once a month, movie nights whenever we fancy it).

We're looking for a Front End Staff Staff Software Engineer to develop our LINQ Cloud application, providing our users with the flexibility and control to develop fully automated solutions for their labs.

About the team

Our engineers are more than just technically skilled; they're driven by curiosity and a growth mindset. They find immense joy in seeing the software power the robots and the hardware bench, transporting plates from instrument to instrument. They understand the profound impact of their work on the life sciences industry, and this fuels their passion.

The core skills we’d like to see:
  • Typescript with React

  • Frontend Testing Strategies and Paradigms

  • Leading Frontend strategies and problem spaces

  • Owning technical standard and best practises

We are flexible and look for the right folks. You are not expected to know everything, but here are some other of our core technologies and what our environment looks like:

  • Python for our application code, APIs and SDK

  • SQL and NoSQL databases: PostgreSQL, Couchbase, DynamoDB

  • Event-driven architecture, employing technologies such as Kafka, gRPC and Protobuf for event definitions

  • Solver technology and algorithms to drive our workflow scheduling solver engine

  • Deployment on AWS to IoT Greengrass, ECS, Lambda and EKS, with infrastructure managed via Terraform and pipelines via CircleCI

  • Feature flags to enable us to experiment and control when we release new features to customers

In this role, you will be responsible for:
  • Be a force multiplier and provide technical leadership to the team, elevating the team’s capabilities through mentorship, high-impact knowledge sharing, and stewardship, ensuring effectiveness and alignment towards contributing to the overall delivery.

  • Shipping and building a resilient product with scale and reliability in mind so that we can entrust our product into the hands of our customers with pride, accounting for quality and security.

  • Taking pragmatic approaches and keeping it simple by solving for problems that we have, not for problems we might encounter.

  • Building an agile architecture that is expected to evolve and is flexible to adapt. Drive improvements in engineering efficiency by establishing best practices, reducing complexity in critical systems and creating reusable architecture patterns.

  • Collaborating and supporting your team because code is just one part of the job, but being a team player is a massive part. We prioritise working together with product partners, design and engineering to ensure transparency and alignment in our direction.

  • Putting customers at the heart of what you do by understanding what makes sense for our users and engaging with them with integrity.

What it takes:
  • Technical leadership and code excellence with the ability in developing high-quality code, conduct code reviews and lead technical initiatives through strong architectural understanding, mentorship, and the capacity to align team objectives with strategic technical vision.

  • Team multiplier and collaborative problem solver who contributes to up-skilling the team, helping to resolve issues, sharing knowledge, and elevating others around you.

  • Comfortable dealing with ambiguity, thinking through the problem space, shaping the product, seeking feedback, and adjusting the product through iterations.

  • Production experience across the core technology stack of React and Typescript in an AWS environment, ideally working on data-intensive edge applications, microservices and event-driven architecture. We also welcome diverse experiences in other languages such as Python, Golang, Rust, or Dart.

  • Delivery-focused and pragmatic in ensuring customer value is delivered efficiently, with necessary trade-offs considered, balancing strategic direction, quality and resiliency.

  • Have a product mindset, always keen to understand customer needs. Participate in product and design discussions, contributing ideas to ensure we do the most impactful work that will improve the product and user experience.

  • Effective stakeholder management in supporting customer engagement and navigating teams through incidents and customer support cases.



    We are an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Discrimination of any kind based on race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status is strictly prohibited. 

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