Full Stack Web Developer

San Diego Stealth Startup; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

San Diego Stealth Startup seeks a Senior Staff or Principal engineer to own the architecture of our internal platforms and cloud infrastructure. You will drive end-to-end technical choices across data, cloud, and operations, ensuring scalable, secure, and observable systems.

This role requires deep full-stack expertise and the ability to translate ambiguous business needs into shipped software, while mentoring engineers and collaborating with ops, finance, and lab leadership.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of full-stack software engineering experience including senior/staff-level ownership of production systems.
• Deep hands-on experience with modern cloud infrastructure spanning architecture, deployment, cost, and reliability management.
• Full-stack programming across frontend (React), backend services, and data modeling (SQL/NoSQL) with git-based workflows and CI/CD.
• Track record of building internal tools or platforms from ambiguous requirements that have been deployed to production.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build internal platforms and tools used by operations, finance, and lab teams.
• Build robust cloud infrastructure with tooling for provisioning, cost, reliability, and security as data scales.
• Design data models and APIs connecting lab systems, business systems, and dashboards into an operational backbone.
• Set technical direction regarding architecture, code quality, CI/CD, testing, and observability across the eng org.

Skills

Full-stack seniority

Cloud infrastructure

Frontend React

Backend services

Data modeling SQL/NoSQL

Technical leadership

Education

BS or MS in Computer Science

Tools

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

We're seeking a Senior Staff or Principal engineer to own the architecture of ourinternal platforms and cloud infrastructure. These are the systems operations, finance, and lab teams rely on every day to run and scale the business. This isn't a role scoped to one product; it's broad ownership across cloud infrastructure, data architecture, and tightly coupled to lab and business operations.

You'll need to be a strong full-stack engineer who can operate independently across the stack, frontend, backend, data, and cloud infrastructure, intimately familiar with modern development practices, and a clear communicator who can sit with operations, finance, and lab leadership to translate ambiguous business needs into shipped software Deep full-stack and cloud experience is required; curiosity and the ability to move fast across unfamiliar domains matter just as much, since this role touches nearly every part of the business.

This role is a unique opportunity to own a central piece to the overall success of the company.

Responsibilities:

• Architect and build internal platforms and tools that operations, finance, and lab teams, in addition to external customers, depend on daily.Architect and build inter-nal platforms and tools that operations, finance, and lab teams depend on daily.
• Build a robust cloud infrastructure that leverage best in class tooling to manage provisioning, cost, reliability, and security as data and transaction volume scales.
• Design data models and APIs that connect lab systems, lab equipment, business sys-tems (NetSuite, ATS, CRM), and internal dashboards into a coherent operational backbone.
• Help set the technical direction regarding architecture, code quality, CI/CD, testing, observability across a small but growing engineering org.
• Work directly with operations, finance, and lab leadership to map requirements and priorities, translating ambiguous business needs into shipped software.
• Over time build a team and mentor other engineers and act as a technical escalation point across the stack.
• Contribute to CI/CD, code review, and testing practices company-wide.

Qualifications:

Required:

• 10+ years of professional full-stack software engineering experience, including senior/staff-level ownership of production systems.
• Deep, hands-on experience with modern cloud infrastructure spanning architecture, deployment, cost, and reliability management.
• Full-stack programming experience spanning a modern frontend framework (e.g. React), backend services, and data modeling (SQL/NoSQL), with git-based workflows and CI/CD.
• Track record of building internal tools or platforms from ambiguous requirements, not just feature work on an existing product, that have been deployed into production use.
• Experience operating as a technical leader who works directly with non-engineering stakeholders (ops, finance, or similar).
• BS or MS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent industry experience. Track record with production systems weighs more than credentials.

Nice to have:

• Experience in a high-growth startup or biotech/life sciences environment.
• Familiarity with regulated-data handling (21 CFR Part 11, ISO 13485, ISO 15189, CAP / CLIA, GxP, or HIPAA).
• Experience integrating with business systems like NetSuite, ATS platforms, or CRMs.
• Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or similar) and CI/CD pipeline ownership.
• Experience with LIMS or laboratory workflows
• Experience with HL7 v2, FHIR, LIS, ASTM E1394, or IHE profiles for lab / EMR interoperability.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We thrive on diversity and collaboration.