Senior Full-Stack Engineer (Django + Vue)

What we build

Lucid Genome Suite is a clinical analysis platform for long-read genomes (PacBio HiFi and Oxford Nanopore). Geneticists use it to find the variants that short-read sequencing misses in rare-disease patients: structural variants, repeat expansions, methylation, phasing. Users include Boston Children’s Hospital, Stanford, Baylor College of Medicine and German university hospitals. We are a small team in Berlin, a spin-off of the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics and Charité. We are preparing ISO 13485 certification and the IVDR CE mark for the software.

The role

You are the second software engineer. You work directly with our Principal Engineer and own features end to end: from the Vue.js screen a clinician clicks, through the Django API, down to the AWS infrastructure. Bioinformaticians own the pipelines; you turn their output into a fast, reliable clinical product.

Work waiting for you

• Clinical features: ACMG classification view, ClinVar and RefSeq links, phenotype per gene in the variant table.

• Performance: variant tables with hundreds of thousands of rows, Elasticsearch queries, caching, Celery jobs.

• Operations: AWS (RDS, S3, ECS), Terraform, GitHub Actions, monitoring, backup and recovery.

• Quality under a QMS: code review, tests, release documentation that passes an audit.

• An API that customers integrate with their lab systems.

Stack: Python 3, Django, DRF, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Celery, Redis, Vue.js 3, Vuetify, Docker, AWS, Terraform, GitHub Actions. We use AI coding tools every day and pay up to €200 per month for yours.

You must have all of these

• 5+ years building production software, 3+ of them owning a system in production.

• Django and DRF in a shipped product (not a side layer or a bootcamp project).

• Vue.js in production. React only if you shipped comparable UI and will work in Vue from day one.

• Hands-on AWS (or equivalent) with infrastructure as code: you deployed, monitored and fixed a production system.

• Working English. German is not needed.

• You live in the EU with the right to work here, within 3 hours of Berlin time. No visa sponsorship.

Nice to have: Elasticsearch at scale, regulated software (ISO 13485, IEC 62304, IVDR/MDR), scientific or data-heavy products.

Please do not apply if

• Your last 3 years were management only.

• You never shipped Python and Django in a product.

• You are frontend-only or backend-only and want to stay that way.

• You want a mid-level role with a senior title.

We check every claim in the CV. The first step after your application is three short written questions about systems you built. Concrete stack, scale and what broke matter more than titles.

Compensation

€80k–85k fixed plus virtual shares (VSOP) worth €40k–50k at the current valuation, 26 days of leave, laptop of your choice, permanent contract, 6 months probation. Remote in the EU, or hybrid in Berlin (Delta Campus, 2 office days per week).

Process, 3 weeks from application to answer

1. Three written questions.
2. 30-minute technical call.
3. 90-minute working session on two messy real-world projects. AI tools allowed.
4. 45 minutes with the founders.
5. Offer. We answer every candidate.

Agencies: please do not contact us.