Full Stack Software Engineer, Benchling

• 3+ years of experience as a software engineer, with demonstrated growth in scope and independence
• Experience delivering multi-sprint projects end-to-end, including planning, task breakdown, and tracking
• Strong experience building backend systems and APIs for cloud-based web applications
• Familiarity with frontend development and willingness to build full-stack solutions when needed
• Ability to design technical solutions that account for edge cases, performance, scalability, and maintainability
• Comfort working in ambiguous problem spaces where methods and outcomes involve tradeoffs
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to synthesize project status and share it with stakeholders
• A collaborative mindset — willingness to mentor junior engineers and help teammates be more productive
• Interest in learning about life sciences. Prior biotech knowledge not required, but enthusiasm to learn is essential
• Experience building software for highly regulated industries (pharmaceuticals, medical devices, aerospace, financial services)
• Experience with React or similar JavaScript-based frontend frameworks

Desirable

• 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 Enterprise Lifecycle 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
• Our work directly enables Benchling's expansion into the enterprise market and supports customers navigating some of the most rigorous regulatory requirements in the world
• Looking forward, we are exploring how AI can transform the compliance experience for our customers
• We envision intelligent systems that help QA teams and auditors navigate complex regulatory requirements, surface relevant information from vast datasets, and streamline compliance workflows
• As a Software Engineer on this team, you'll have the opportunity to shape how AI is applied to these high-stakes, accuracy-critical domains
• The team currently consists of seven engineers working on systems that touch nearly every part of the product
• You will collaborate extensively with other engineering teams across the organization, as these horizontal systems require deep integration and coordination
• This is high-stakes, high-impact work where correctness and attention to detail matter enormously
• As a software engineer on this team, you'll ship products that help customers meet regulatory requirements while building platform capabilities that raise the bar for engineering across the company
• You will own horizontally impactful systems while delivering features that appear in FDA submissions and GxP-regulated workflows
• This role sits at the intersection of platform and product work, requiring both deep technical expertise and strong product sense
• Design, develop, and deliver features and systems that advance Benchling's product and business goals across areas such as audit coverage, export systems, document lifecycle management, and regulatory compliance workflows
• Own end-to-end delivery of significant projects — from planning and development through deployment, maintenance, and monitoring — across multi-sprint, multi-person initiatives
• Design technical solutions for open-ended problems, working independently on smaller projects and collaborating with senior engineers on larger efforts
• Write well-documented, well-tested code that follows company best practices, and execute refactors that improve the codebase
• Participate actively in code reviews, providing thoughtful and actionable feedback that raises the quality of team output
• Partner with product management, design, and cross-functional stakeholders to translate customer needs into technical solutions, clarifying requirements and surfacing tradeoffs
• Explore opportunities to leverage AI and LLMs to improve compliance workflows, audit reporting, and regulatory navigation for our customers
• Contribute to team discussions and process improvements, and help resolve communication gaps within and across teams
• Collaborate with other teams to ensure our horizontal platform systems integrate well and support product development across the organization