Platform Software Engineer, Benchling
Developer Experience
$173-234k
+ Equity
Cloud-based platform for biotech R&D
Open for applications
Cloud-based platform for biotech R&D
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$173-234k
+ Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To unlock the power of biotechnology.
Role
Who you are
- You have 4+ years of experience in software engineering
- Build tools and software with a product-first approach. You ship code quickly and care about the real world impact of your code
- Expertise with at least one web framework, preferably node or python
- Have strong abilities in problem solving and iterating on feedback
- Enjoy ownership and building key pieces of product
- Have empathy for your customers and curiosity about their challenges
- Are interested in learning more about life science (prior knowledge is not required; desire to learn is a must)
- Clear and effective communicator, especially in cross-functional settings
What the job involves
- Developer Experience is a crucial function that empowers our engineers to excel in their craft. As a technical leader in the Platform pillar, you’ll work closely with the Developer Productivity and Release Engineering teams to create tools and frameworks that enhance developer experience, with a focus on the Path to Production
- Your success will enable our engineering teams to efficiently deliver high quality products
- By understanding the unique challenges developers face and crafting solutions to streamline their workflows, you'll play a key role in driving innovation and fulfilling Benchling’s mission
- Build and implement tooling for efficient, frictionless development, testing, and packaging for production release
- Lead the design and development of release tooling that enables code changes to reach production within 10 minutes
- Iterate on developer experience improvements using qualitative and quantitative feedback
- Implement feedback loops that integrate quality into software development workflows
- Champion effective engineering and operational patterns across the Engineering org
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to address challenges in engineering workflows that impact developer happiness and productivity
- Work closely with product managers, designers, and peers in engineering to make Benchling a delightful place to develop software
- Help rapidly scale our product and team. As a member of the engineering team, you'll be an integral part of how we mature our tooling, best practices, engineering processes, and hiring
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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