Senior Full-Stack Engineer — Scientific Data Infra (San Mateo)

zella-group; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

zella-group in San Mateo, California, seeks a Senior Full Stack Engineer to build the data infrastructure powering its central platform. You’ll work on ingestion, normalization, and the full stack with Python backend and TypeScript/Next.js frontend, collaborating with scientists to translate domain problems into production software.

This early-stage role offers significant ownership, a 5-day on-site workweek, and a compensation package in the $180K–$220K range plus competitive equity.

Qualifications

• 4–8 years of full-stack engineering with hands-on data infrastructure experience.
• Comfortable operating with high ownership in a very early-stage environment.
• Experience building platforms that handle messy, heterogeneous data at scale.

Responsibilities

• Build core data infrastructure: ingestion, normalization, storage, indexing.
• Ship across the full stack — Python backend, TypeScript/Next.js frontend.
• Design schemas that make heterogeneous lab data queryable.
• Work directly with scientists to translate domain problems into working software.
• Own reliability and make smart tradeoffs on quality vs. speed.

Skills

Full-stack engineering

Ownership in early-stage environment

Data infrastructure

Scientific data handling

Education

4–8 years of experience

Tools

Python

TypeScript

Next.js

Django

GCP

SQL

Job description

zella-group in San Mateo, California, seeks a Senior Full Stack Engineer to build the data infrastructure powering its central platform. You’ll work on ingestion, normalization, and the full stack with Python backend and TypeScript/Next.js frontend, collaborating with scientists to translate domain problems into production software.

This early-stage role offers significant ownership, a 5-day on-site workweek, and a compensation package in the $180K–$220K range plus competitive equity.