Position Overview
Join FUJIFILM Biotechnologies and help build the digital platforms that accelerate the future of life sciences. We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to set technical strategy, lead cross-team architecture, and deliver modern, full-stack products used by scientists, engineers, and partners across the biotech ecosystem.
This is a high-impact role for an expert technologist who thrives on ownership, clarity of design, and shipping resilient systems at scale. You'll collaborate closely with product, design, and DevOps to turn complex requirements into intuitive, performant experiences-while raising the bar on engineering excellence across teams.
Company Overview
The work we do at FUJIFILM Biotechnologies has never been more important-and we are looking for talented candidates to join us. We are growing our locations, our capabilities, and our teams, and looking for passionate, mission-driven people like you who want to make a real difference in people's lives.
Join FUJIFILM Biotechnologies and help make the next vaccine, cure, or gene therapy in partnership with some of the most innovative biopharma companies across the globe. We are proud to cultivate a culture that will fuel your passion, energy, and drive - what we call Genki.
Fujifilm is globally headquartered in Tokyo with over 70,000 employees across four key business segments of healthcare, electronics, business innovation, and imaging. We are guided and united by our Group Purpose of "giving our world more smiles." Visit: https://www.fujifilm.com/us/en/about/region/careers
Job Description
The Staff Software Engineer drives technical strategy and architecture for complex, modern full-stack web applications and platforms. This role leads cross-team initiatives and establishes engineering standards while designing and implementing end-to-end solutions across front-end (React, TypeScript, Next.js, MUI) and back-end (Node.js services, APIs, databases, cloud). It ensures performance, accessibility, security, and reliability at scale, mentors engineers, and collaborates with product, design, and devops to deliver impactful customer outcomes. The position advances CI/CD, testing, observability, and documentation to sustain high-quality delivery across services.
What You'll Do
Lead technical strategy and architecture across services and teams; author ADRs, establish standards, and drive alignment to business outcomes.
Design and implement high-impact features end-to-end across React, TypeScript, Next.js, MUI, and Node.js services (APIs, data layers).
Define and evolve APIs and integrations (REST/GraphQL), data models (SQL/NoSQL), and service frameworks (Express/NestJS/Fastify) with robust contract testing.
Build reusable UI component libraries and a design system in MUI with strong accessibility (WCAG) compliance.
Optimize performance and reliability in Next.js (SSR/SSG where appropriate): profiling, caching, bundle optimization, and latency reduction.
Advance reliability engineering and observability: instrumentation (OpenTelemetry), dashboards (Datadog/Grafana), SLOs/SLIs, incident response, runbooks, and postmortems.
Champion secure coding practices and manage authN/authZ across the stack (OWASP, OAuth/OIDC/JWT, secrets management).
Own testing strategy and CI/CD governance (Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress); strengthen pipeline standards and release automation.
Design and tune back-end infrastructure for scale and cost efficiency: caching (Redis), queues/messaging (Kafka/SQS), load balancing, horizontal scaling, and cloud cost/perf optimization.
Communicate decisions clearly through documentation, tech talks, and stakeholder alignment; mentor engineers and model best practices.
What You'll Bring
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
10+ years of professional software engineering experience delivering production systems end-to-end.
Expert proficiency in React, TypeScript, Next.js, Node.js, and MUI.
Demonstrated leadership in system architecture, cross-team initiatives, and performance optimization across front-end and back-end.
Experience with API design (REST/GraphQL), data modeling (SQL/NoSQL), and service frameworks (Express/NestJS/Fastify).
Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), containers (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes), and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation).
Strong experience automated testing, CI/CD, observability, and security best practices (OWASP).
Excellent communication, collaboration, and technical mentorship with a product-centric mindset.
Our programs are designed to focus on maintaining and enhancing all pillars of health with a robust benefits package including medical, dental,vision and prescription drug coverage with the option of a Health Savings Account with company contributions. In addition, we offer an industry leading 401(k)savings plan, insurance coverage, employee assistance programs and various wellness incentives. We support life-work balance with paid vacation time, sick time,and company holidays. Explore a supportive environment that enriches both your personal and professional growth!
This is a global position that will support all our FLBG sites. This position can be based at any ofour locations around the globe. Benefits and compensation will be governed by the location that you are based from andconsidered your home site.
The US salary range for this position is $120,000 to $207,000. Pay within this range varies by work location?and mayalsodepend on job-related knowledge, skills,?and experience.
As part of any recruitment process, FUJIFILM Biotechnologies collects and processes personaldata relating to job applicants. Theorganisationis committed to being transparent about how it collects and uses that dataand to meeting its data protection obligations and may share this as part of the global recruitment process with hiringmanagers in Europe and the United States.
To all agencies: Please, no phone calls or emails to any employee of FUJIFILM about this requisition. All resumes submitted by search firms/employment agencies to any employee atFUJIFILM via-email, the internet or in any form and/or method will be deemed the sole property of FUJIFILM, unless such search firms/employment agencies were engaged by FUJIFILM for thisrequisition and a valid agreement with FUJIFILM is in place. In the event a candidate who was submitted outside of the FUJIFILM agency engagement process is hired, no fee or payment of anykind will be paid.
EEO Information
Fujifilm is committed to providing equal opportunities in hiring, promotion and advancement, compensation, benefits, and training regardless of nationality, age, gender, sexual orientation or gender identity, race, ethnicity, religion, political creed, ideology, national, or social origin, disability, veteran status, etc.
ADA Information
If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to our HR Department (fdbglobaltalent@fujifilm.com).
Job Locations US-Remote
Posted Date 13 hours ago (1/29/2026 10:33 AM)
Requisition ID 2026-36683
Category Information Technology
Company (Portal Searching) FUJIFILM Biotechnologies
