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You will develop and maintain critical APIs and services that enable scientists to orchestrate complex experiments remotely. This role offers the unique opportunity to solve challenging problems at the intersection of cloud computing, laboratory automation, and scientific instrumentation.\nYou will join a small, high-impact team where ownership and leadership are essential. As a team member helping to build the Engineering team as well as the product, you will also be encouraged to contribute to the software engineering practices we maintain in our own work, and which we bring to ECL as a whole. 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