Staff Full-Stack Engineer, Robotics Platform

Lab37; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 213,000 - 269,250; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k)

HSA

Discretionary paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Lab37 Robotics is seeking a Staff Full-Stack Software Engineer to own significant product and technical areas, spanning frontend, backend, cloud, and robot-adjacent interfaces. You will collaborate with product, culinary, operations, robotics, firmware and mechanical teams to transform ambiguous problems into reliable software.

You will mentor others, shape architecture, and help the Los Angeles team scale while delivering high-quality software for kitchen operations and robotic production

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with ownership of complex systems or initiatives across multiple components.
• Ability to lead technical design and execution in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
• Deep experience in at least one backend language; Go is valuable but not required.
• Strong frontend engineering skills with modern TypeScript frameworks; Vue is helpful but not required.
• Experience designing APIs, services, data models, and asynchronous or event-driven workflows.
• Strong product judgment and the ability to translate real operational problems into simple, usable software.
• A track record of improving architecture, reliability, testing, observability, or developer productivity.
• Clear written and verbal communication, including design documents and cross-functional alignment.

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver complex full-stack initiatives spanning user interfaces, backend services, cloud infrastructure, and external integrations.
• Lead technical design and architecture for new capabilities, balancing speed, reliability, maintainability, and operational simplicity.
• Partner with product, culinary, and operations teams to understand workflows, clarify requirements, and define pragmatic solutions.
• Build software for configuring, observing, and managing kitchen operations, including orders, menus, recipes, tasks, alerts, and visibility.
• Integrate with delivery and commerce platforms to receive orders, synchronize menus, and communicate order state.
• Create operator-facing and robot-adjacent interfaces used in production environments.
• Collaborate with firmware and robotics engineers to ensure cohesive system functionality.
• Own projects through rollout, testing, observability, and incident diagnosis.

Skills

Full-stack engineering

Technical leadership

Backend development

Frontend development with TypeScript

Vue familiarity

API design

Mentorship

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Protobuf

Python

Terraform

Git

Job description

Lab37 Robotics is seeking a Staff Full-Stack Software Engineer to own significant product and technical areas, spanning frontend, backend, cloud, and robot-adjacent interfaces. You will collaborate with product, culinary, operations, robotics, firmware and mechanical teams to transform ambiguous problems into reliable software.

You will mentor others, shape architecture, and help the Los Angeles team scale while delivering high-quality software for kitchen operations and robotic production