Full Stack Software Engineer, Benchling
Study Lifecycle
$148.2-200.5k
Offers Equity
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
$148.2-200.5k
Offers Equity
More information about location
3 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To unlock the power of biotechnology.
Role
Who you are
- Have around 2-4 years of experience in a full-time software engineering role
- Build software with a product-first approach. You ship code quickly and care about the real world impact of your code
- Experience developing both user-facing & backend experiences in a web application
- Experience with React, or similar javascript-based frontend application frameworks
- Enjoy a high-degree of ownership in key areas of the software product you’re building
- 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 Study Lifecycle team, one of two teams that is focused on making software that can be used in more regulated environments
- Given our mission to accelerate the pace of life sciences research, we have to make scientific experimentation easier, more reproducible, and efficient via Benchling!
- Our team is foundational to Benchling’s success, given the critical role of designing and learning from experiments in the scientific process. We provide ways to aggregate data within Benchling and process them for use in analyses
- 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 researchers 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
- In this role, you’ll get to work on a few critical areas of the Benchling product:
- The Study platform, which allows scientists to organize related experiments for a drug candidate or research campaign
- An Analysis integration, where Benchling objects are transformed into datasets ready for data scientists with pre-built charts
- Cross-cutting Sample Testing functionality, that supports tracking of biologically relevant samples that need to be tested, including patient samples collected for clinical trials
- Own projects end-to-end, from initial design, to prototype, to large-scale rollout
- Engineer across our stack, from designing and implementing backend models & APIs to crafting rich frontend components and architecture
- Work 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
- Writes extremely well-documented and well-tested code that follows company best practices
- As a member of the engineering team, you'll be an integral part of how we mature our tooling, best practices, and engineering processes
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.
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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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