Software Full Stack Engineer, Benchling
Chemistry
$141.1-190.9k
More information about location
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
$141.1-190.9k
More information about location
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
- 2+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Solid understanding of software engineering best practices, including writing clean, maintainable code, testing, version control, and working within Agile workflows
- Strong expertise in frontend development (with React or similar frameworks) and backend development (Python). Experience building scalable, user-friendly applications that support complex scientific workflows
- Experience building scalable, reliable systems with attention to performance and user impact
- Proven ability to work across teams – partnering with product, design, and platform groups to ship cohesive solutions
- Strategic problem solving – tackles complex, ambiguous technical challenges with a focus on long-term impact, scalability, and user value
- Comfortable pushing back thoughtfully – advocate for technical solutions that improve quality, scalability, and maintainability
- Clear and effective communicator, especially in cross-functional settings
- Curiosity and adaptability – excited to learn about life sciences and work in a fast-changing domain (no prior domain knowledge required – though it’s a huge bonus )
What the job involves
- Benchling is expanding into additional modalities including chemistry, and has a plan to rapidly bring tools to the chemistry market
- This is a major step forward, as these capabilities are among the most often requested by our customers, and they align with Benchling’s work on antibodies and other modalities as well as development
- The chemistry team will build from our existing support for molecules toward a full chemistry solution, integrated with our notebook and our core registry product
- Benchling’s customers interact with our products daily, and they trust them with their most important assets
- Chemistry is a full-stack team on a mission to accelerate science by creating powerful, intuitive tools that support a broad range of scientific workflows
- We obsess over quality and data integrity
- Own projects end-to-end: Drive features from concept to launch — translating product requirements and designs into well-scoped plans, implementing, testing, and deploying high-quality solutions
- Collaborate cross-functionally: Partner closely with product managers, designers, and fellow engineers to build intuitive, high-impact features
- Write clean, scalable code: Contribute to both the frontend (React) and backend (Python), maintaining high standards for readability, maintainability, and performance
- Improve and refactor: Identify and address technical debt, modernize existing systems, and ensure the long-term health and scalability of the codebase
- Ensure quality and reliability: Design and implement robust testing frameworks, monitoring, and metrics to maintain system stability and performance
- Champion ownership and accountability: Take pride in delivering end-to-end solutions and continuously improving how we build, ship, and scale our product
- Optimize for scalability and performance: Continuously refine architecture and systems to handle growing complexity and demand
- Embrace ambiguity and domain complexity: Operate effectively in a fast-paced environment with evolving scientific requirements. Rapidly learn new technologies and help the team do the same
- Act with ownership and accountability: Take responsibility not just for your code, but for the outcomes it enables. Push for clarity, follow through on commitments, and support others in doing the same
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
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
- 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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