Full Stack Engineer

Apoha Limited; City of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology company in England is seeking a Full Stack Engineer to shape their innovative sensory platform. The role involves developing software that interacts with hardware, designing user interfaces, and ensuring system reliability. Ideal candidates will have experience in full-stack engineering and a curiosity for scientific workflows. Competitive compensation and stock options are offered, alongside a collaborative work environment.

Benefits

Competitive compensation + stock options

Private health insurance

Bi-weekly team lunches

Regular socials

Access to cutting-edge science

Qualifications

• Experience with instrument control, robotics, or lab devices.
• Strong end-to-end feature shipping capability in software.
• Resourcefulness and ownership in engineering tasks.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve parts of the software and hardware control stack.
• Design user interfaces and backend services.
• Test and refine control workflows using real devices.
• Resolve issues across various technology stacks.
• Collaborate with scientific and data teams for product features.
• Push for engineering clarity and technical rigor.

Skills

Software that interacts with hardware

Full-stack engineering

Curiosity for scientific workflows

Problem-solving in software and physical systems

Tools

Python

Django

PostgreSQL

AWS

Kubernetes

Next.js

React

Job description

Overview

At Apoha, we are building the Liquid Brain® — a programmable physical sensing platform creating rich, multidimensional fingerprints of materials to unlock faster and smarter material design. Our mission is to redefine how materials are sensed, understood, and designed across industries.

Why Join Us?

We’re pioneering Sensory Intelligence by decoding molecular behaviour. Our platform will improve life‑saving drugs by assessing the developability of antibodies earlier, giving machines senses they never had.

Our team combines science, engineering, and operations. We value curiosity, collaboration, and end‑to‑end ownership, and we work together in a small, flat, and talent‑dense environment. Our investors include Redalpine, Acequia Capital, Seedcamp, Nucleus Capital, Plug and Play, Wilbe, and others.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation + stock options
• Private health insurance
• Bi‑weekly team lunches + regular socials
• The rare chance to shape the DNA of a company
• Access to cutting‑edge science, a stellar team, and the chance to change the game

The Role

We’re looking for a Full Stack Engineer who thrives on autonomy, ownership, and creative problem solving. As an engineer here, you’ll help shape how the world’s top scientists and researchers interact with the Liquid Brain® and leave a defining footprint on a breakthrough platform.

What You’ll Do

• Own and evolve major parts of our software and hardware control stack, ensuring reliability, performance, ease of use, and seamless operation of our Liquid Brain system.
• Design and build user interfaces and backend services (Next.js, Django, Postgres) that make interacting with complex hardware systems and multimodal data analysis tasks simple, intuitive, and robust.
• Work hands‑on with our hardware, using real devices to test, validate, and refine control workflows, automation logic, and system integrations.
• Root‑cause and resolve issues across the entire stack, from hardware drivers to APIs, task management, data analysis pipeline and more.
• Collaborate closely with hardware, scientific, and data teams to translate experimental workflows and engineering constraints into high‑quality product features.
• Help shape the engineering culture by pushing for clarity, simplicity, and technical rigor as we scale the platform.

What We’re Looking For

• Experience building software that interacts with hardware—instrument control, robotics, automation systems, lab devices, edge devices, or similar.
• A strong full‑stack engineering foundation (front‑end + backend + APIs + databases), with the ability to ship features end‑to‑end.
• Strong sense of agency, resourcefulness, and ownership is absolutely essential.
• Proven experience in at least a few of the following areas: designing scalable services, cloud infrastructure, API design and implementation, database design, and front‑end frameworks.
• Curiosity for scientific workflows, new technologies, and solving problems at the intersection of software and physical systems.
• Bonus: exposure to Python, Django, PostgreSQL, AWS, Kubernetes and/or containerized deployments, Next.js, React – but mindset matters more than exact tech experience.

How To Apply

We’ve designed an interactive challenge to kick off the application. Apply via the form and send an empty POST request to this endpoint: api/v2/external-tests/hello-apoha at https://api-v2.test.appapohacom. We will reach out to schedule the first technical interview after reviewing your submission. For questions, please contact [e-mail].