Are you an experienced software engineer who thrives in cross-functional teams and loves building products that real users depend on? Do you get energy from working closely with scientists, hardware engineers, and product stakeholders to turn complex workflows into elegant, reliable software? If the answer is yes, we’d love to chat!

About Us

We are Inventia Life Science (www.inventialifescience.com) and are radically changing the way the world treats disease and injury. We’re a multidisciplinary team, deeply inspired by the purpose of innovating for the better and backed by top-tier venture capital funds. Our revolutionary 3D cell biology technology enables pioneers in drug discovery and medicine to radically drive innovation from disease treatment (in areas such as cancer) through to the way we treat injuries.

The Team

You will be joining the Product team, a small, tightly knit group of software engineers working alongside biologists, hardware engineers, and product stakeholders. We build the RASTRUM platform: the software that powers our bioprinter hardware and the RASTRUM Cloud web application that researchers use to design, execute, and analyse their experiments. Our team is small by design, which means everyone has a meaningful impact on the product and the people who use it.

The Role

We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer to take ownership of our full-stack application development across the RASTRUM platform. Your primary focus will be the RASTRUM Cloud web application and the user-facing experience of our printing application. You will work across the stack, from frontend interfaces to backend services and cloud infrastructure, with an emphasis on building software that is genuinely accessible and useful to biologists.

A critical part of this role is bridging the gap between product and development. You will participate actively in planning, design review, and user feedback cycles to ensure that what we build is always targeted at biologically relevant workflows and outcomes. You won’t need a biology background to start, but you will be expected to learn how our technology works, spend time in the lab, and develop an intuition for what matters to biological researchers.

As the team grows, you will play a foundational role in shaping our engineering culture and technical direction. A more junior role is planned for later in the year, and you would be expected to mentor and lead that person as the team expands.

The Impact

This is a unique opportunity to shape the software platform behind a breakthrough bioprinting technology. Your work will directly influence how researchers around the world design and run experiments, accelerating discoveries in areas like cancer research and regenerative medicine. You will help define the technical architecture and engineering practices of a growing team during a pivotal period of product development.

About You

To be considered for this role, we are looking for someone who is:

• Comfortable working in ambiguous, evolving problem spaces and iterating toward solutions with pragmatism while maintaining high technical quality
• Excited to work in a cross-functional team of biologists, hardware engineers, and software engineers, and energised by building products that serve a scientific audience
• Able to bridge the divide between product and development, contributing to planning, review, and feedback loops, not just implementation
• Self-directed, proficient at managing their own time, and able to juggle priorities while communicating impact clearly to stakeholders
• Motivated by impact, and naturally inclined to prioritise features based on the value they deliver to users and customers
• Willing to learn how to operate in a wet lab environment and develop an understanding of what matters to biological researchers
• Friendly, technically curious, and a relationship builder, someone who enables change within and outside their discipline

Preferred Qualifications & Experience

• 5 to 10 years of software development experience across the full stack
• Strong experience with Python and TypeScript/JavaScript
• Hands-on experience with modern frontend frameworks, ideally Vue.js
• Experience building and maintaining web applications with GraphQL and/or REST APIs
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and services (AWS preferred: S3, Lambda, DynamoDB, IoT)
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and modern development workflows (GitHub Actions or similar)
• Track record of owning architectural decisions and driving technical direction in a small team

Bonus Points

• Experience with Electron for desktop application development
• Exposure to image analysis or machine learning pipelines
• Experience building software in regulated or quality-controlled environments
• Experience working directly with scientific or research end-users
• Familiarity with biotech, life sciences, or medtech domains.

We strongly encourage you to apply even if you’re not sure you meet every criterion listed above. Come as you are. We believe that diversity drives innovation.

Our Culture

The role is based in our Sydney HQ and we provide flexibility in terms of working from home and the office. While there are no mandatory office days, there is genuine value in being onsite with the labs and physical printers regularly. Our office is right next to a childcare facility and home to our family of mostly-thriving houseplants.

Equity and a strong market-based salary are on offer, within a supportive but empowered, fully agile environment, which we have worked hard to create.

Come and do work that really matters within a team who care as much about one another as the mission!