Engineering Leader, Benchling
Enterprise Lifecycle
$215.4-291.5k
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3+ days a week in office
Cloud-based platform for biotech R&D
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Cloud-based platform for biotech R&D
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$215.4-291.5k
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
- This role is ideal for an experienced engineering manager who is energized by high-stakes, high-impact work where correctness and attention to detail matter
- You will thrive here if you have a track record of building and leading strong engineering teams, enjoy navigating ambiguity on a newly formed team, and find satisfaction in solving complex problems for sophisticated enterprise users
- Experience building enterprise SaaS software is a strong plus
- If you are drawn to the challenge of building compliant, scalable systems that support some of the world's most important scientific work, we would love to hear from you
- 3+ years of experience as an engineering manager
- 5+ years of experience as a software engineer, with experience as a technical lead on projects that involve multiple engineers across multiple quarters
- Experience building cloud-based web applications, ideally on both the front- and back-end
- Track record of growing high-trajectory, early-to-mid-career engineers into leaders with company-wide impact
- Experience (and enjoy!) working directly with customers to inform your team's roadmap
- A track record of working with cross-functional partners in product, design, sales, and marketing
- Familiarity with software engineering management productivity tools (e.g., Jira or other bug database), as well as observability tools for logging, metrics, and alerting
What the job involves
- The Enterprise Lifecycle team is a newly formed engineering team dedicated to ensuring Benchling's largest customers—internationally recognizable names developing some of the world's most innovative treatments and cures—are successful in regulated environments
- Our mission is to help them prove their products are safe for human consumption and navigate complex regulatory processes with confidence and efficiency. The team owns critical capabilities including auditing, document lifecycle management, exports, and backups. These are the foundational systems that ensure data integrity, compliance, and auditability across Benchling's platform
- As the engineering manager for this team, you will build and lead a team of eight engineers working on systems that enterprise customers depend on for regulatory submissions and audits
- You will set technical direction, drive execution on a roadmap that balances new capabilities with platform reliability, and partner closely with product management and design to shape the future of Benchling's enterprise offerings
- This role sits at the intersection of platform and product work: you will own horizontally impactful systems while directly enabling features that appear in FDA submissions and GxP-regulated workflows
- You will also collaborate extensively with other engineering teams across the organization, as these systems touch nearly every part of the product
- Recruit, develop, and lead a team of exceptional software engineers
- Translate strategy into execution by developing and executing quarterly plans with clear metrics and targets
- Define and execute on a roadmap that encompasses new product development, quality improvements, and software maintenance activities. Partner closely with product management and design to define short- and long-term product strategy
- Hold an unreasonably high bar for product quality as the teams execute their work
- Partner closely with engineers to ensure that we make excellent technical decisions as we lay the foundations for new products and a scalable platform
- Meet with customers to understand their science & what they need from Benchling
- Contribute to engineering-wide organizational improvements as part of the management team
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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