Full Stack Software Engineer, Benchling
App Ecosystem
$134.4-181.8k
Plus equity
Cloud-based platform for biotech R&D
Job no longer available
Cloud-based platform for biotech R&D
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$134.4-181.8k
Plus equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To unlock the power of biotechnology.
Role
Who you are
- Have 3-5 years of experience in a full stack software engineering role
- Proficiency in modern web development technologies, encompassing backend languages like Python, Ruby, Java, or Go, and frontend frameworks such as Typescript, React, or GraphQL. Your expertise empowers us to build innovative and seamless web experiences
- Build software with a product-first approach. You ship code quickly and care about the real world impact of your code
- Have strong abilities in problem solving and iterating on feedback
- Enjoy ownership and building key pieces of product
- Have a keen interest in delving deeper into life science. While prior knowledge isn’t a pre-requisite, an enthusiasm to learn certainly is
- All new hires in the United States are required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and to provide proof of vaccination prior to their first day of employment. If you are unable to be vaccinated for medical or religious reasons, we will explore potential reasonable accommodations; however, Benchling may not be able to grant such accommodations in all cases if doing so would cause undue hardship
What the job involves
- To keep up our innovation, Benchling needs a highly scalable and extensible data platform that can serve both its customers and internal application team
- Joining Benchling's Application Ecosystem team as a Software Engineer, you'll be instrumental in crafting, developing, and maintaining our innovative platform for scientific research and development
- Working on a wide range of projects, you'll collaborate with teams across the company to build a growing application ecosystem, enabling developers to expand Benchling's suite of offerings
- Your work will be vital in driving innovation, customization, and seamless integration of third-party solutions that empower scientists to achieve peak efficiency and make groundbreaking discoveries
- Own projects end-to-end, from initial design, to prototype, to large-scale rollout
- Architect resilient APIs, user interfaces, services, and frameworks that streamline the addition of applications to our ecosystem
- Work hand in hand with product managers, designers, and fellow engineers to understand needs and shape them into scalable software solutions
- Help rapidly scale our product and team. As a member of the engineering team, you will be an integral part of how we mature our tooling, engineering processes, and hiring
- Ensure high quality and performance of the ecosystem through comprehensive testing, monitoring, and optimization
Our take
As the pioneer of the R&D Cloud, Benchling offers a cloud-based informatics platform tailored for biotechnology. Its platform enables scientists across the globe to make breakthrough discoveries and bring next-gen biotechnology to market.
There’s a sincerity and consciousness to Benchling’s approach that stands out. This has led to the company being adopted by over 200,000 scientists from 1,000+ companies and 7,500 academic and research institutions globally (including 23andMe, Moderna, and the U.S. Department of Defense).
The rapidly advancing Biotechnology industry was at the forefront of the so-called “fourth industrial revolution”, with the industry driving $2 to $4 trillion per year of economic impact over the next 20 years.
Benchling has put itself in a position of immense value within the industry with its expanding offerings. And now, off the back of over $400 million in total funding, the company is seeing accelerated growth.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Nov 2021
$100m
SERIES F
Apr 2021
$200m
SERIES E
Total funding: $411.2m
Company benefits
- Competitive salary and equity
- Robust healthcare benefits
- Family-forming benefits
- Four months of fully paid parental leave
- Retirement benefits
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Sajith Wickramasekara
(Co-Founder & CEO)Sajith studied at MIT before spending 2 years as a Research Assistant at Duke University Medical Centre and Liquidia Technologies. They used this biotechnology understanding to found Benchling in June 2012, serving as CEO since.
Ashu Singhal
(Co-Founder & President)They previously co-founded Hotspots.io which was later acquired by Twitter in 2012. After this, became Staff Software Engineer at Twitter for 2 years, leaving to co-found Benchling.
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