Senior Full Stack Engineer – Lab Connect | Luma

Dotmatics is seeking a Senior Full Stack Engineer to join our team. We are building the most powerful R&D AI-Powered platform in the world. Luma is an AI-Native Multimodal Research Platform for Scientific Intelligence – it fits the way our customers "do science," letting them streamline research with adaptive R&D workflows driven by AI and seamless data integration.

As a Senior Full Stack Engineer within our Lab Connect team, you'll build software that connects laboratory environments, applications and scientific workflows. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on desktop and connected systems, where reliability, process orchestration and asynchronous communication are critical.

You'll work across Node.js and React, building applications that operate across Windows, Linux and macOS, while solving complex problems around inter-process communication, parallelisation, process orchestration and streams processing. You'll help build the software that enables scientists to connect their laboratory environments and instruments with modern R&D workflows.

We're looking for engineers who are comfortable working close to the operating system and understand the challenges of building reliable software across multiple environments. Experience with industrial, laboratory, instrumentation, automation or other connected-device environments is particularly valuable.

This is no ordinary engineering role. This is a product with real-world meaning, helping scientists work more effectively and enabling the research that brings new medicines and discoveries to life.

In this role you will:

• Lead development of complex, high-impact features for desktop and connected laboratory applications
• Design and build software that operates reliably across Windows, Linux and macOS
• Develop asynchronous, non-blocking services and applications using Node.js
• Design solutions involving inter-process communication, parallelisation and process orchestration
• Build and maintain streams-based processing and data flows for high-volume or continuously generated data
• Develop React-based frontend experiences that provide intuitive interfaces for complex scientific workflows
• Work with engineers across the platform to integrate desktop applications with backend services and distributed systems
• Investigate and resolve complex issues involving processes, concurrency, performance and communication between components
• Write clean, maintainable and well-tested code, proactively identifying technical debt and opportunities for architectural improvement
• Provide technical guidance through thoughtful code reviews and pair programming, fostering a culture of continuous learning
• Support the reliability of our applications by contributing to deployment, monitoring and production support

We are looking for candidates with:

Strong fluency in English, both written and spoken, along with 8+ years of professional software engineering experience. Ideal candidates will have strong experience building desktop applications or software that interacts closely with the operating system, alongside commercial experience developing across multiple operating systems, particularly Windows, Linux and/or macOS. A strong understanding of asynchronous programming, concurrency and inter-process communication is essential, as is experience with process orchestration and parallelisation. We're looking for someone who is curious and inquisitive — someone who questions the why and the how and enjoys solving complex technical problems.

The key skills:

• Strong commercial experience with Node.js
• Strong experience with React and modern frontend development
• Experience building desktop or cross-platform applications
• Experience working across Windows, Linux and macOS
• Strong understanding of streams processing and asynchronous programming
• Experience with inter-process communication and process orchestration
• Experience designing systems involving parallel processing and concurrent workloads
• Solid experience designing, building and consuming RESTful APIs
• Experience working with distributed systems and service-based architectures
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL
• Experience with Docker and/or other approaches to application packaging and deployment
• A strong advocate for automated testing (unit, integration, E2E) and CI/CD

You may also have experience in:

• Industrial IoT (IIoT), laboratory automation, scientific instrumentation or connected-device environments
• Building software that communicates with or controls physical devices, instruments or equipment
• Developing applications that run reliably in industrial, laboratory or other high-integrity environments
• Device communication protocols, hardware interfaces or machine-to-machine communication
• Building and scaling complex data ingestion or processing workflows
• Event-driven architectures and messaging technologies such as Kafka
• AWS or other cloud platforms
• Kubernetes and containerisation
• Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code technologies
• Working with applications that need to operate reliably in environments with intermittent connectivity or constrained resources
• Leading small project teams or acting as a feature lead, including mentoring engineers and running code reviews
• Background in Life Sciences, R&D or scientific data management