Full Stack Software Engineer, Benchling
$177.7-240.5k
Plus equity
3 days a week in office
Cloud-based platform for biotech R&D
Job no longer available
Cloud-based platform for biotech R&D
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$177.7-240.5k
Plus equity
3 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To unlock the power of biotechnology.
Role
Who you are
- Have 7+ years of experience in software engineering
- Build software with a product-first approach. You ship code quickly and care about the real world impact of your code
- Have strong abilities in problem solving and iterating on feedback
- Enjoy ownership and building key pieces of product
- Are interested in learning more about life science (prior knowledge is not required; desire to learn is a must)
- Willing to work onsite in our Boston office 3 days a week
What the job involves
- Our engineering team is comprised of the Applications pillar, the Platform pillar, and the Infrastructure pillar
- The Applications Team builds the product modules used daily by scientists to work with their data inside Benchling. This includes DNA editing tools, an electronic lab notebook, sample tracking, workflow design, and more
- Drives designs & releases major sections of multiple initiatives
- Leverages new technology & advances the product and business goals
- Designs technical solutions and plans for open-ended problems
- Writes extremely well-documented and well-tested code that follows company best practices
- Own projects end-to-end, from initial design, to prototype, to large-scale rollout
- Design and implement backend models and API endpoints for complex scientific workflows
- Design and implement rich frontend components and architecture. We build and operate one of the largest, richest React applications out there and power complex scientific analyses
- Work closely with product managers, designers, marketing, and sales to ensure the right context is being shared
- 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
- Here are some other examples of recent and future projects:
- Tools to simulate DNA assembly - computers can assist scientists by informing scientific decisions with complex calculations. Our bulk assembly tool allows scientists to simulate constructing hundreds of DNA constructs
- In parallel, visualizing the end result and highlighting potential issues
- Chemistry tools - we have focused primarily on biology and biotech for the last 5 years, but are just starting new initiatives to expand our tools to support chemists as well
- This will involve modeling complex chemical reactions within Benchling, and is an opportunity to see a new product grow from the ground up
- Robot and machine integration - scientists are increasingly using automated hardware in the lab to perform measurements
- By integrating Benchling with machines like liquid handlers, we are working towards a world where a scientist can perform a physical experiment entirely using software
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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