Full Stack Software Engineer, Benchling
Notebook Canvas
$186.6-252.5k
3 days a week in office
Cloud-based platform for biotech R&D
Be an early applicant
Cloud-based platform for biotech R&D
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$186.6-252.5k
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
- If you're excited about solving challenging technical problems that have a meaningful impact on global health and innovation, we’d love to hear from you
- 7+ years of experience in software engineering with proven technical leadership in architecting and delivering complex solutions with company-wide impact
- Drive innovative product development as a technical leader within your domain, owning large projects from concept to completion while mentoring senior engineers
- Expert in both frontend (React or similar frameworks) and backend development for enterprise web applications
- Independently develop high-quality technical designs, establish engineering standards, and advocate for new methodologies that improve team effectiveness
- Proactively identify, communicate, and resolve technical challenges while making business-aware prioritization decisions at the quarterly roadmap level
- Deeply understand customer needs and translate them into technical solutions that advance product and business goals
- 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 Notebook Canvas, 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 Notebook Canvas team is focused on delivering a powerful, flexible, and user-friendly digital lab notebook that enables scientists to plan, document, and share their research seamlessly
- As a member of this team, you'll play a key role in building intuitive interfaces, developing robust backend services, and ensuring our platform scales to meet the needs of scientists around the world
- You'll collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to deliver a product that improves scientific workflows and empower groundbreaking discoveries
- Our team values technical excellence, a deep understanding of user needs, and a commitment to building products that make complex scientific work easier and more efficient
- Build 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
- Dive into a mature codebase, help shape a north star vision for technical investments and build an incremental roadmap to drive towards it
- Be a core team member, helping to shape the way we work together, while also participating in technical & architectural discussions among engineers inside & outside the 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. 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: $411.9m
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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