
Senior Staff Engineer will play a critical role in shaping the technical direction and long-term architecture of the Albert platform. This role is responsible for driving scalable, reliable, and high- impact software engineering that align with business goals and customer needs. The position requires a strong balance of technical depth, execution excellence, and cross-functional leadership to accelerate product development while maintaining high standards of quality, performance, and maintainability
Responsibilities:
Technical Leadership
- Drive the architectural vision for core product areas across the Albert platform.
- Own the technical roadmap for major product features, ensuring alignment with business priorities and long-term platform evolution.
- Lead the design and development of highly reliable, performant, and scalable applications using modern tech stack.
- Establish durable engineering patterns and frameworks that enable product teams to move quickly with high confidence.
- Provide mentorship to Staff, Senior, and Mid-level engineers to uplevel engineering capabilities across product teams
Execution Excellence
- Translate business goals and customer needs into scalable technical designs that accelerate product development.
- Solve complex, multi-system issues and guide teams through debugging, incident response, and performance improvements.
- Lead design reviews, define coding standards, and elevate system observability, reliability, and maintainability.
- Drive technical decisions involving tradeoffs between speed, quality, and scalability, bringing clarity to ambiguity.
- Identify, prioritise, and drive down technical debt that impacts product velocity and quality
Cross-Team Influence & Collaboration
- Work with senior technical leadership to establish and uphold company-wide architectural standards and engineering practices.
- Partner closely with PMs to shape feature requirements, estimate complexity, and define engineering milestones.
- Collaborate with engineering, data, ML, and infra teams to develop cohesive, well-integrated product experiences
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- 12+ years of software engineering experience, with 3+ years in senior technical leadership roles supporting product-oriented teams.
- Proven ability to lead end-to-end product development at scale — from concept through production rollout.
- Deep expertise in modern backend technologies, including Node.js, RESTful API design, backend services, and distributed system fundamentals, with strong proficiency across multiple programming languages.
- Strong understanding of product architecture patterns: domain-driven design, modular monoliths, micro-services, event-driven systems.
- Proficiency with SQL & NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, MongoDB, etc.).
- Significant experience with AWS services and modern cloud architectures.
- Strong product intuition — ability to understand user needs, evaluate tradeoffs, and craft solutions that balance speed with quality.
- Outstanding communication, collaboration, and organisational influence skills
Good to Have:
- Experience with modern front-end frameworks such as React.
- Experience building AI- or ML-driven user experiences.
- Experience scaling a product engineering team from 1 to N
About Albert Invent
Albert Invent is a cutting-edge AI-driven software company headquartered in Oakland, California, on a mission to empower scientists and innovators in chemistry and materials science to invent the future faster. Every day, scientists in 30+ countries use Albert to accelerate R&D with AI trained like a chemist, bringing better products to market, faster.
Why Join Albert Invent
- Joining Albert Invent means becoming part of a mission-driven, fast-growing global team at the intersection of AI, data, and advanced materials science.
- You will collaborate with world-class scientists and technologists to redefine how new materials are discovered, developed, and brought to market.
- The culture is built on curiosity, collaboration, and ownership, with a strong focus on learning and impact.

About Albert Invent
About
Albert Invent is a cutting-edge R&D software company that’s built by scientists, for scientists. Their cloud-based platform unifies lab data, digitises workflows and uses AI/ML to help materials and chemical R&D teams invent faster and smarter. With thousands of researchers in 30+ countries already using the platform, Albert Invent is helping transform how chemistry-led companies go from idea to product.
What sets them apart: built specifically for chemistry and materials science (not generic SaaS), with deep integrations (ELN, LIMS, AI/ML) and enterprise-grade security and compliance.
Tech stack
Candid answers by the company
Their platform brings together electronic lab notebook (ELN) functionality, laboratory information management systems (LIMS), inventory tracking, AI/ML for molecular and formulation predictions, and process automation — all in one end-to-end solution.
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