Full Stack Software Engineer, Benchling
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$165.1-223.4k
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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
$165.1-223.4k
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 4+ years of experience building software, ideally as part of a full-stack team
- You're product-minded, driven to ship, and always consider the customer and business impact of your work
- You are a natural problem-solver who thrives on feedback and continuous improvement
- You love taking ownership of your work and building foundational pieces of a product
- You're excited by the challenge of building Enterprise SaaS for the life sciences industry and are eager to learn about the domain
- You are able to join us in our San Francisco office on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays
What the job involves
- Benchling is on a mission to accelerate the pace of life sciences research and development
- To do that, we build a suite of tools that scientists use daily to solve humanity's most pressing problems
- The tools we build must be optimized to make scientists more efficient in their work, across a broad spectrum of research, development, and manufacturing tasks
- This role is an opportunity to join App Core & IAM, a foundational Platform team at Benchling
- This team is responsible for the core functionality that controls how users authenticate with our product, what they are authorized to access, and how Benchling's features are enabled and configured
- As a Software Engineer on this team, you will build new features and tools that help users unlock the full potential of the Benchling application
- You will also work closely with other Platform and Application teams across Benchling, helping them leverage these core services to ship value in their respective product areas
- You will have an opportunity to ship quality code at a high velocity, while prioritizing enterprise grade security and compliance
- You will build and own core features that are central to our product, including Identity, Permissions, Notifications, and platform-wide Configurability
- You'll work across our full stack, tackling challenges from the front-end UI to our back-end architecture
- You'll be a key partner to product and design, collaborating to transform ideas into thoughtful, high-quality features for our users
- You'll do more than just ship code—you'll help us build a better engineering organization by improving our tools, processes, and helping us hire great people
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.
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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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