Software Engineer, Benchling
Backend, Developer Platform
$141.1-190.9k
More information about location
3 days a week in office
Cloud-based platform for biotech R&D
Open for applications
Cloud-based platform for biotech R&D
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$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
- Proficiency in modern web technologies: backend languages like Python, Ruby, Java, or Go, and frontend frameworks like TypeScript, React, or GraphQL
- Product-oriented mindset: you ship code quickly and care about the tangible impact of your work
- Strong problem-solving skills and comfort iterating based on feedback
- Ownership mindset: you thrive when building and improving core components of a product
- Passion for learning about life sciences and applying that knowledge to improve the tools scientists rely on
- Enjoy collaborating with a team that values curiosity, experimentation, and making an impact
What the job involves
- As a Software Engineer on the Developer Platform team, you’ll play a pivotal role in building the platform that enables our ecosystem of scientific applications
- You won’t just write code, you’ll help shape how developers, partners, and scientists interact with Benchling’s products, allowing them to create tools that directly support groundbreaking research
- Your work will impact the way science gets done, driving innovation and enabling seamless integration of third-party solutions across the platform
- The team is working on a wide range of early- and mid-stage initiatives—including developer APIs, event delivery, AI-powered agents, and new platform infrastructure designed to support a growing ecosystem of scientific applications
- Because of the diversity of our work, engineers have the flexibility to take on projects that align with both business needs and their own interests and skills
- This role was envisioned as a “Developer Platform Engineer,” reflecting the breadth of opportunities to contribute across our developer-facing systems
- This is a hands-on, high-impact role where your contributions will be visible across the company and to our scientific users worldwide
- You’ll collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers, tackling complex challenges while growing your expertise in platform development and life sciences
- Take ownership of projects from ideation to delivery, including prototyping, building, and scaling new software features
- Design and implement robust APIs, services, and interfaces that integrate seamlessly with our growing ecosystem
- Partner with cross-functional teams to translate user needs into scalable, elegant software solutions
- Influence the direction of our platform by bringing creative solutions and new ideas to the table
- Design, build, and maintain external developer-facing APIs and SDKs that power extensibility in Benchling’s platform
- Contribute to evolving and scaling our REST and GraphQL APIs, ensuring consistency, performance, and usability for external and internal developers
- Build and maintain delivery systems for real-time scientific data
- Contribute to the development of APIs and interfaces that support AI-driven agents like Benchling’s Deep Research Agent and Data Entry Agent
- Support the development of our Benchling MCP to enable AI agents to interact safely with Benchling’s data and APIs
- Collaborate with our AI infra / agents teams to support the agentic ecosystem
- You’ll work on mission-critical extensibility features used by external customers and partners
- You’ll help shape how developers build on top of Benchling, including support for AI, custom code, and LIMS integrations
- You’ll get to work across a wide surface area of Benchling’s platform — APIs, events, apps, and more — with increasing ownership
- You’ll collaborate with product, infra, and AI teams on forward-looking projects that define the future of biotech R&D platforms
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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