Software Engineer, Benchling
Schemas & Object Framework
$129.9-190.9k
More information about location
3 days a week in office
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
$129.9-190.9k
More information about location
3 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To unlock the power of biotechnology.
Role
Who you are
- You have 1+ years of experience in a fulltime software engineering role, backend or full stack. Ideally in SaaS with platform development experience
- Strong problem-solving skills with a proven ability to iterate on feedback and deliver high-impact solutions
- Proficiency in backend development, API design, data management. Experience in Web Application development is highly desirable
- Experience leading & delivering projects from start to finish, independently or as a part of a larger team
- Excellent interpersonal skills and experience working in a collaborative, cross-functional environment. Willing to work out of our SF office 3 days a week
- Enthusiasm for diving into complex technical challenges and a keen interest in the life sciences domain, with a willingness to learn and adapt
What the job involves
- As a software engineer on the Schemas and Object Framework team, you will design, build, and operate platform systems that are fundamental to how Benchling models complex science
- Not only will your work enable Benchling to scale its product offerings and accelerate scientific discovery for our customers by providing a cohesive and extensible data modeling foundation, but you will also have the opportunity to help shape technical strategy and establish best practices for Benchling product and platform teams
- The richness and variety of our customers’ work means that Benchling cannot provide out-of-the-box support for all the concepts in biotech
- So, the Schemas system enables our internal application teams to introduce new “schema types,” which are natively integrated with our platform
- Our customers can then extend and customize these schema types to represent their unique science
- As an engineer on the Schemas team, you will own the evolution of these customizable schemas, ensuring optimal handling of data “at rest” and shaping the data within Schemas to maintain data integrity and optimize the performance of the datastore that backs all data records in the Benchling Data Platform
- This team also owns the Object Framework which enables Benchling’s internal platform to be consistent by default by providing both a source of truth for the shape of Benchling domain models and also internal APIs for accessing them
- Team members regularly define best practices for other platform and product teams to ensure modeling consistency, as well as define interfaces to adjacent systems that persist data and generate change events
- Lead high-impact projects from design through to deployment and operation
- Work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers across Platform and Applications teams to translate business needs into effective solutions
- Collaborate with technical leaders and teammates to contribute to team growth, drive improvements in engineering processes and tools, and foster a culture of excellence
- Improve the maintainability, consistency, scalability, and developer experience of high-impact internal data modeling APIs
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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