Full Stack Software Engineer, Benchling
Data Input
$165.1-223.4k
3 days a week in office
Cloud-based platform for biotech R&D
Posted today
Cloud-based platform for biotech R&D
501-1000 employees
Posted today
$165.1-223.4k
3 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To unlock the power of biotechnology and empower their global customers to get to milestones & market faster.
Role
Who you are
- You have 5+ years of experience in a fulltime software engineering role
- Build software with a product-first approach. You ship code quickly and care about the real world impact of your code
- Experience developing both user-facing & backend experiences in a web application
- Experience with React, or similar javascript-based frontend application frameworks
- Experience leading large, sophisticated, long-term initiatives, while also breaking down this work into smaller, iterative projects
- Enjoy a high-degree of ownership in key areas of the software product you’re building
- Are interested in learning more about life science (prior knowledge is not required; desire to learn is a must)
What the job involves
- Benchling is seeking a Software Engineer to join our Data Input team, one of two teams that own Benchling’s widely-used Notebook product
- At Benchling, we’re on a mission to accelerate the pace of life sciences research. To do that, we build a suite of tools that scientists use daily to solve humanity's most pressing problems
- To achieve our mission, the Data Input team exists to help our users get their crucial scientific data into our platform easier & quicker
- Our goal is to streamline Data Input so scientists can focus on science. We own core product functionality like tables, audits & forms, which over 90% of Benchling customers use!
- As a Software Engineer on this team, you’ll help us engineer core products that get our user's data into Benchling
- You’ll also play a crucial role in building key product initiatives that are critical to the company’s success alongside peer teams, across the organization
- In this role, you’ll get to work on a few critical areas of the Benchling product:
- Our Excel-like tables, that allow creating new scientific entities, recording and publishing experiment results, & more
- Our auditing system, which underpins all of Benchling, helping our users to understand every action that happened on our platform
- Our forms, which allow scientists to design completely custom forms that enable our users to easily capture data into Benchling at the lab bench & remotely in the field
- Own large-scale projects end-to-end, from ideation with cross-functional partners, through to rollout to end-users
- Engineer across our stack, from designing and implementing backend models & APIs to crafting rich frontend components and architecture
- Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and other teams to build the best product possible for our users
- Create entirely net-new products, while also investing in taking existing products to feature completeness
- Be a core team member, mentoring engineers on the team, while also leading technical & architectural discussions among engineers inside & outside the team
- Help to architect a platform of Data Input components, to build once, and leverage many times over, throughout Benchling
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. Off the back of over $400 million in total funding, the company is seeing accelerated growth
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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: $411.9m
Company benefits
- 4 months paid parental leave
- 401k plan
- Pre-tax commuter benefits
- Flexible paid time off
- Work from home opportunities
- 100% premiums covered for health, dental, & vision
- Fertility healthcare and family-forming benefits
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Sajith Wickramasekara
(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
(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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