The Staff Software Engineer reports to the Development Manager within the R&D organization. This role is a key member of a highly collaborative Software Engineering team.
The ideal candidate is a self-motivated, full-stack software engineer who is capable of independently designing, developing, testing, and deploying high-quality software. As the secondary technical leader of the development team, this individual will serve as the primary backup to the Software Architect, contributing to technical design decisions, maintaining architectural consistency, and ensuring continuity of development efforts.
This position requires a strong background in modern software engineering practices, front-end and back-end development, cloud and on-premises deployments, CI/CD automation, and Agile development methodologies. Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate with multidisciplinary engineering, scientific and product management teams are essential.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, and maintain full-stack software solutions for commercial products.
- Independently deliver features from concept through deployment with minimal supervision.
- Serve as the technical backup to the Software Architect, participating in architectural planning, technology selection, and design reviews.
- Contribute to software architecture and ensure solutions are scalable, maintainable, secure, and performant.
- Develop front-end applications, back-end services, business logic, and database components.
- Design and implement RESTful APIs and services
- Collaborate with Product Management and stakeholders to define requirements and ensure customer needs are met.
- Develop and maintain Software Design Requirements (SDRs) and technical documentation.
- Participate in code reviews and promote software engineering best practices across the team.
- Build and maintain automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment processes.
- Support both cloud and on-premises deployment environments.
- Participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily standups, retrospectives, and sprint demonstrations.
- Collaborate effectively with multidisciplinary teams including software engineers, scientists, and product managers.
Required Technical Qualifications
- Modern software architecture and design patterns
- Full-stack application development
- C# and .NET Core/.NET
- Angular and TypeScript
- SQL Server and relational database design
- Entity Framework or equivalent ORM technologies
- Authentication and Authorization (OAuth, OpenID Connect, JWT, Identity, etc.)
- Asynchronous programming using Tasks, async/await, multithreading, and concurrent programming techniques
- RESTful API development and service-oriented architecture
- Modern UI development practices
- Automated unit and integration testing using frameworks such as xUnit or NUnit
- Docker containerization
- CI/CD pipeline implementation and DevOps practices
- Git source control and collaborative development workflows
- Networking fundamentals and distributed applications
- Cloud platforms (Azure preferred) and on-premises deployments
- Demonstrated experience developing production-quality software across the full technology stack.
- Experience using AI coding assistants (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, or similar) as an integral part of the software development workflow to accelerate development, automate engineering tasks, refine prompts, and improve code quality.
- Demonstrated ability to leverage AI-assisted and emerging agentic development workflows to enhance engineering productivity while exercising sound technical judgment and maintaining high standards for software quality, security, and maintainability.
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum development environments.
- Strong problem-solving, analytical, and debugging skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Proven ability to work independently while contributing effectively within a small, highly collaborative engineering team.
- Ability to balance feature delivery with software quality, maintainability, and long-term architecture.
- Deep knowledge of Microsoft technologies. Linux OS knowledge a plus
Candidates should demonstrate strong experience in most of the following areas:
Required Qualifications
- BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or Computer Engineering.
- 8+ years of professional software development experience, including leading complex technical initiatives.
- Demonstrated experience developing production-quality software across the full technology stack.
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum development environments.
- Strong problem-solving, analytical, and debugging skills.
- Proven ability to work independently while contributing effectively within a highly collaborative engineering team.
Working Conditions
- Hybrid work environment with a required on-site presence of three (3) days per week. This is a mandatory requirement for the position.
- Work is performed in both an office environment and laboratory settings.
- Occasional flexibility to work on additional on-site days may be required to support project milestones, testing, or product releases.
Skills Required
- Modern software architecture and design patterns
- Full-stack application development
- C# and .NET Core/.NET
- Angular and TypeScript
- SQL Server and relational database design
- Entity Framework or equivalent ORM technologies
- Authentication and Authorization (OAuth, OpenID Connect, JWT, Identity)
- Asynchronous programming (Tasks, async/await), multithreading, and concurrent programming techniques
- RESTful API development and service-oriented architecture
- Automated unit and integration testing (xUnit or NUnit)
- Docker containerization
- CI/CD pipeline implementation and DevOps practices
- Git source control and collaborative development workflows
- Networking fundamentals and distributed applications
- Cloud platforms and on-premises deployments
- Azure (preferred)
- Experience using AI coding assistants (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor) and agentic AI workflows
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum development environments
- BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or Computer Engineering
- 8+ years professional software development experience, including leading complex technical initiatives
- Deep knowledge of Microsoft technologies
- Linux OS knowledge (a plus)
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
What We Do
Rapid Micro Biosystems is an innovative life sciences technology company providing mission-critical automation solutions to facilitate the efficient manufacturing and fast, safe release of healthcare products such as biologics, vaccines, cell and gene therapies, and sterile injectables. We are the trusted partner in quality control microbiology automation, enabling our customers to improve and save lives. This vision has been realized with the development of the Growth Direct® System. Our Growth Direct® platform automates and modernizes the antiquated, manual quality control microbiology testing workflows used in the largest and most complex pharmaceutical manufacturing operations across the globe. The Growth Direct® platform brings the quality control lab to the manufacturing floor, unlocking the power of in-line/at-the-line QC automation to deliver faster results, greater accuracy, increased operational efficiency, better compliance with data integrity regulations, and quicker decision making that customers rely on to ensure safe and consistent supply of important healthcare products. Our company values guide us in our vision: Customer Driven – We are committed to providing our customers with the highest quality products and services Respect – We welcome and embrace our differences to create a trusting environment Grit – We are determined to turn challenges into successes. One RMB – We operate as one team, committed to our shared purpose. The company is headquartered and has U.S. manufacturing in Lowell, Massachusetts, and global locations in Switzerland, Germany, and the Netherlands
