Backend Software Engineer, Benchling
Schemas & Object Framework
$177.7-240.5k
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
$177.7-240.5k
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
- Collaborate effectively with diverse group of stakeholders and experts
- 8+ years of experience as a software engineer, ideally 3+ of those within a Platform team
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to act on feedback
- Express high ownership of impactful products and platform systems
- Experience leading multi-quarter projects, including planning, delivery, project management, and stakeholder communication
- Enjoy tackling deep technical challenges
- Prior life science knowledge is not required, but enthusiasm to learn is essential
What the job involves
- As a software engineer on the Schemas and Object Framework team, you will design, build, and operate platform systems that are fundamental to how Benchling models complex science
- Not only will your work enable Benchling to scale its product offerings and accelerate scientific discovery for our customers by providing a cohesive and extensible data modeling foundation, but you will also have the opportunity to shape technical strategy and establish best practices for Benchling product and platform teams
- As an engineer on the Schemas team, you will own the evolution of these customizable schemas, ensuring optimal handling of data “at rest” and shaping the data within Schemas to maintain data integrity and optimize the performance of the datastore that backs all data records in the Benchling Data Platform
- This team also owns the Object Framework which enables Benchling’s internal platform to be consistent by default by providing both a source of truth for the shape of Benchling domain models and also internal APIs for accessing them
- Team members regularly define best practices for other platform and product teams to ensure modeling consistency, as well as define interfaces to adjacent systems that persist data and generate change events
- As a technical leader in this domain, you will play a key role in shaping the technical strategy and driving adoption across Benchling product and platform teams
- End-to-End Ownership: Lead complex, high-impact projects from architectural design through to deployment and operation, ensuring high-quality deliverables for core data modeling infrastructure
- Domain and data modeling best practices: Collaborate with application teams to architect and implement robust domain models within the Object Framework and evolve the Schemas product to meet customer needs for expressiveness, scale, and performance
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers across Platform and Applications teams to translate business needs into scalable and efficient software solutions for data representation
- Mentorship and Team Contribution: Provide mentorship to fellow engineers, contribute to team growth, and drive improvements in engineering processes and tools, fostering a culture of excellence
- Platform Optimization: Improve the maintainability, consistency, and developer experience of high-impact internal data modeling APIs
- Performance and Reliability: Implement comprehensive testing, monitoring, and optimization strategies to ensure the reliability and performance of Schemas data storage systems, including supporting zero-downtime data migrations over billions of records
- Innovation and Improvement: Engage in continuous improvement efforts, including re-architecting schema systems for scale, improving data migration reliability, designing foundational schema primitives (e.g., inheritance, constraints), and making the platform easier for engineers to use
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: $411.9m
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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