Lead Application Engineer

About the role

We are Alden Scientific, dedicated to transforming health and longevity by leveraging multi-omic data and artificial intelligence. Our mission is to provide predictive, personalized health management, making proactive health management the new norm. We are seeking a Lead Application Engineer to join our dynamic team.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical design and execution
• Partner closely with Product Managers to define feature roadmaps, refine technical requirements, and deliver impactful application capabilities
• Lead system design and architecture for customer-facing web applications, member services, finance integrations, logistics, and sample/inventory management workflows
• Conduct technical investigations and build proof-of-concepts (POCs) to evaluate solutions, mitigate technical risk, and drive informed architectural decisions
• Run daily standups, break down complex initiatives, and delegate work effectively across the application engineering team
• Drive engineering excellence
• Establish strong patterns for frontend (React) and backend software quality through rigorous code reviews and engineering standards
• Standardize QA/QC practices and establish consistent engineering quality across teams
• Drive adoption of AI-assisted software development and modern engineering practices
• Improve engineering visibility through metrics, dashboards, and operational health indicators
• Lead architecture and design reviews for major technical initiatives
• Ensure high data integrity and reliability across transactional processing systems, financial tracking, and inventory workflows
• Build scalable platforms
• Architect distributed backend services and web applications that power seamless collection, insights delivery, and member service experiences
• Evaluate platform performance and identify bottlenecks before they become production issues
• Improve observability, reliability, resiliency, and capacity planning
• Develop reference architectures and reusable platform patterns that accelerate engineering teams
• Design scalable data models and APIs supporting inventory, logistics tracking, and financial operations

Requirements

• 7+ years of software engineering experience building production web applications, user-facing features, and scalable application architectures
• Strong proficiency in React and the modern frontend web development ecosystem
• Strong experience designing and integrating RESTful and GraphQL APIs to support complex web application workflows
• Proven expertise in full-stack transactional application architecture, relational database schema design, and maintaining data consistency across user workflows
• Demonstrated experience partnering with Product Managers to scope features, define specs, and execute efficiently
• Experience running agile ceremonies, leading daily standups, and delegating work across engineering teams
• Ability to rapidly build POCs to validate technical approaches and guide architectural choices
• Experience with software quality, testing strategies, CI/CD, and engineering best practices
• A systems-thinking mindset and the ability to understand complex systems quickly and find scalable, pragmatic solutions
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence technical direction without direct authority

Preferred Qualifications / Skills

• Domain experience building web applications for healthcare, member services, logistics, inventory management, or finance platforms
• Web application deployment pipelines, cloud platform integration, and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or similar)
• Familiarity with data layer integrations and consuming data platform workflows (Spark, Airflow, dbt) within web applications
• Experience with AI-assisted software development tools
• Mentoring senior engineers and leading architecture across multiple teams
• Agentic frameworks (e.g., LangChain, CrewAI) and building evaluation harnesses for LLM/agentic applications

Benefits

Competitive salary, equity options, health benefits, flexible PTO, and professional development support. Hybrid role based in Cambridge, MA; occasional travel may be required.

Contact

To apply, submit your resume and succinct answers to the questions in our applicant portal: https://www.aldenscientific.com/careers