Senior Software Engineer

About the role

Labviva is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help advance our core purchasing platform, providing a modern e-commerce experience tailored for scientific users. This includes enabling scientists to search millions of data-rich records when ordering equipment, chemicals, and lab consumables, while providing suppliers with rich analytics about marketplace behavior. You thrive in creating comprehensive end-to-end solutions within a collaborative environment. Experience with e-commerce platforms or enterprise web applications is a plus. You are thoughtful in designing and engineering solutions that meet business demands while optimizing for system health, security, and long-term maintenance.

Location: Boston Headquarters. This is a hybrid role requiring 3 days a week in the Boston office (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday).

Responsibilities

• Act as a technical lead for various initiatives, including designing and implementing new features and advancing the technologies our platform uses
• Mentor, support, collaborate with, and learn from other team members and key stakeholders across the company
• Contribute to an engineering culture of shipping great products; advocate for new technologies, methods, best practices, and solutions (technical and non-technical) that improve our product and work experience
• Ship new code on a daily basis covering:
  • Frontend features, components, designs, and general architecture supporting everything a user needs to do on our site
  • Backend services supporting the entire marketplace, including interfacing with data pipelines and supporting the frontend
  • External integrations with third parties, including different product information and order placement APIs
  • Search infrastructure and optimizations for scientific use-cases

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• 6+ years of experience in software engineering
• History of tackling large and complex problems and turning them into executable solutions
• Experience as an owner or subject-matter expert of technical and functional areas, working with key stakeholders to create stable and resilient products that customers use daily
• Ability to forge new paths for enterprise-level green and brown-field projects to create new features using modern technologies
• Effectiveness in learning and experimenting with new technologies and frameworks
• Strong background designing and developing modern frontends and supporting infrastructure
• History of contributing to reliable and scalable software projects

Skills

The following experience is a plus:

• Elasticsearch ingestion pipelines and search tuning
• Architecting and working in a Service Oriented Architecture environment
• Working with and utilizing AI throughout the SDLC using agentic tools like Cursor and Claude
• Deep knowledge of an area of our stack:
  • Next.js and React
  • TypeScript, Node.js, and backend frameworks including Nest.js and TypeORM
  • PostgreSQL utilizing Aurora
  • Kafka
  • Kubernetes and Docker
• E-commerce platform experience
• Procurement for scientific applications

About the Company

Labviva is on a mission to accelerate the pace of life science research. We connect researchers with suppliers of reagents, chemicals, and instrumentation in an intuitive, user-friendly platform that supports the priorities of scientists while staying compliant with purchasing rules. We are a venture-funded startup that values the unique contributions of each team member and drives success through diversity and inclusion. We invest in our employees and foster a culture of respect and support.

Benefits

• Hybrid work option (office/remote)
• Health benefits
• Discretionary time off
• Parental leave
• Competitive salary and equity