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Senior Software Engineer - Front End
Opentrons Labworks, Inc.Long Island City, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 26 Jan 2026
💰 $165,000/yr($150,000/yr – $165,000/yr)
About the role
Job Title: Senior Software Engineer (SWEIII) - Front EndSoftware / Opentrons RoboticsReports to: Team Lead, ApplicationsDirect Reports: NoLocation: Hybrid in Long Island City (Queens) NYFLSA Classification: Exempt About Us
Opentrons Labworks, Inc. is a disruptive life science company leveraging its integrated lab platform to supercharge the pace of innovation in research and healthcare. Through Opentrons Robotics, thousands of institutions are automating lab operations with flexible, easy-to-use liquid handling lab robots. With our own cutting edge R&D, biopharma and biotech at large can also benefit from our world-class genome-scale cell engineering solutions.
If you are looking for your next exciting opportunity, come join us! We provide excellent benefits, competitive compensation, equity packages, and opportunities for growth. Learn more on our Careers Website.
About the RoleThis role focuses on building and owning senior-level frontend systems for our Electron-based applications, using React and TypeScript to deliver reliable, high-impact tooling for scientists worldwide.Our robotic platform, APIs, and the applications built on top of them empower scientists to design, automate, and run complex laboratory experiments. The engineering team is continuously building, iterating on, and shipping user-facing products that directly interface with both software and hardware. We are looking for a Senior Front-end Engineer who can take ownership of complex customer-facing applications, make sound architectural and technical decisions, and build software that balances flexibility, maintainability, and user needs without unnecessary complexity. This is a senior individual contributor role with expectations of technical leadership, mentorship, and ownership.The Sr. Front End Engineer reports directly to the Team Lead, Applications. This is a hybrid role requiring presence at our Long Island City HQ at least 3 days/week.
What You Will Do
Who We Are Looking For
Education:
Opentrons Labworks, Inc. is a disruptive life science company leveraging its integrated lab platform to supercharge the pace of innovation in research and healthcare. Through Opentrons Robotics, thousands of institutions are automating lab operations with flexible, easy-to-use liquid handling lab robots. With our own cutting edge R&D, biopharma and biotech at large can also benefit from our world-class genome-scale cell engineering solutions.
If you are looking for your next exciting opportunity, come join us! We provide excellent benefits, competitive compensation, equity packages, and opportunities for growth. Learn more on our Careers Website.
About the RoleThis role focuses on building and owning senior-level frontend systems for our Electron-based applications, using React and TypeScript to deliver reliable, high-impact tooling for scientists worldwide.Our robotic platform, APIs, and the applications built on top of them empower scientists to design, automate, and run complex laboratory experiments. The engineering team is continuously building, iterating on, and shipping user-facing products that directly interface with both software and hardware. We are looking for a Senior Front-end Engineer who can take ownership of complex customer-facing applications, make sound architectural and technical decisions, and build software that balances flexibility, maintainability, and user needs without unnecessary complexity. This is a senior individual contributor role with expectations of technical leadership, mentorship, and ownership.The Sr. Front End Engineer reports directly to the Team Lead, Applications. This is a hybrid role requiring presence at our Long Island City HQ at least 3 days/week.
What You Will Do
- Develop performant and reliable customer-facing software that will enable our users to conduct scientific experiments and control our hardware.
- Participate in sprint planning and technical scoping, providing input on tradeoffs, timelines, and implementation approaches in an open-source environment.
- Make architectural and technical design decisions for frontend systems, with an emphasis on performance, reliability, and long-term maintainability.
- Take primary responsibility for customer-facing web applications built with React, Typescript, HTML and CSS.
- Review code contributions from members both of the team and the open-source community, and assist other developers in refining features and fixes.
- Serve as an escalation point for complex frontend issues surfaced by customer support, driving root-cause analysis and durable fixes.
- Actively collaborate with other engineers across the stack, as well as Design and Product teams.
- Mentor junior-level engineers.
- Comfortably navigate and contribute across multiple codebases and tech stacks to diagnose issues and deliver end-to-end solutions.
Who We Are Looking For
Education:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, related major. Equivalent experience will be considered in lieu of degree.
- 5+ years of experience building and owning customer-facing web applications using TypeScript and React, including responsibility for design, implementation, testing, and long-term maintenance
- Experience owning frontend features or systems from initial design through production release and iteration.
- Experience working with CI/CD pipelines on cloud environments preferred
- Experience with modern JavaScript tooling and build systems (e.g. Vite, Webpack)
- Experience with Python, FastAPI and MQTT/message brokers (not required, but a plus)
- Biology and/or lab experience preferred
- A deep understanding of TypeScript, including modern JavaScript (ES6+), native D
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