Software Engineer

Reports to: CTO
Location: Dublin or Cambridge
Working style: Hybrid, office-first

About Life Scientific

We're a 110-person crop protection company. We develop and sell formulations that help farmers protect their crops - backed by solid science, sold at fair prices. ~70 people work out of our Dublin office; our CTO runs a smaller team in Cambridge focused on skunkworks projects.

What you’ll build:

We’re hiring a software engineer to build internal systems.

Right now, important parts of the business run on spreadsheets, SharePoint, disconnected databases, and large numbers of documents. That includes formulation portfolio tracking, regulatory workflows, commercial tooling, and reporting.

Some things people in this role might work on:

• Systems for tracking formulations from R&D through commercialization

• Regulatory tooling built around documents, workflows, and market-specific requirements

• Pipelines for market data, regulatory updates, and internal reporting

• Commercial tools used by teams day to day

• Document migrations, data cleanup, and system consolidation

Part of the job is cleanup. Part of the job is rebuilding. Both matter.

Our stack is mostly Next.js, React, Bun, and Postgres.

We build for expert internal users, which means the bar is not just functionality. The tools need to be fast, legible, and trustworthy enough to become part of how people work.

We’re interested in people who can:

• Build and ship software

• Work across the stack

• Deal well with ambiguity

• Design sensible systems and data models

• Write clearly

• Exercise good judgment

Useful background includes internal tools, workflow software, migrations, document-heavy systems, and side projects.

We care less about years of experience than we do about slope and evidence of good work.

This role is not a fit if you want heavy process, narrow tickets, or low ownership.

Remuneration: €80k Base + Equity