Software Engineer, Benchling
Platform
$177.7-240.5k
+ Equity
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
$177.7-240.5k
+ Equity
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
- Experience: 5+ years of experience in enterprise software engineering (ideally SaaS), with a focus on platform development. Experience in re-architecting systems and leading multi-quarter projects
- Technical Skills: Proficiency in backend development, API design, and data management. Experience with architecture migrations and performance optimization is highly desirable
- Problem-Solving: Strong problem-solving skills with a proven ability to iterate on feedback and deliver high-impact solutions
- Collaboration: Excellent interpersonal skills and experience working in a collaborative, cross-functional environment. Willing to work out of our SF office 3 days a week
- Ownership and Execution: Demonstrated ownership of key platform components, with a focus on product impact and engineering excellence
- Eagerness to Learn: Enthusiasm for diving into complex technical challenges and a keen interest in the life sciences domain, with a willingness to learn and adapt
What the job involves
- As a technical leader working on the Domain Graph and API team, you’ll build foundational technologies relied on by our customers’ engineers and internal engineers at Benchling
- Benchling is a system of record so giving our customers APIs with full, consistent coverage is a key component of our product strategy
- Over 80% of our customers use custom built software in the critical path of their business processes and that software is powered by the APIs that this team owns!
- This team is also fundamentally evolving Benchling’s core development stack to be domain driven and API first
- They define best practices for other platform and product teams to ensure modeling consistency, as well as defining interfaces to adjacent systems that persist data and generate change events
- As a technical leader, you will have the opportunity to shape the technical strategy and drive adoption across Benchling product and platform teams and your work will be key to several company-level goals
- End-to-End Ownership: Lead projects from initial design through to deployment, ensuring high-quality deliverables and effective problem-solving
- API Design: Collaborate with application teams to design and implement robust domain models and public APIs that meet customer needs and platform requirements
- Platform Optimization: Develop and maintain core platform components to ensure scalability, consistency, data integrity, and coverage
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to translate requirements into scalable and efficient software solutions
- Mentorship and Team Development: Provide mentorship to fellow engineers, contribute to team growth, and drive improvements in engineering processes and tools
- Performance and Reliability: Implement comprehensive testing, monitoring, and optimization strategies to ensure the reliability and performance of platform systems
- Innovation and Improvement: Engage in continuous improvement efforts, including re-architecting systems, reducing engineering effort, and enhancing platform capabilities to better serve our internal and external stakeholders
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
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 values
- Constant Curiosity - Like the scientists we serve, we approach life with a sense of constant curiosity
- Scientist First - We’re relentlessly focused on taking a scientist-first approach
- Impact Driven - We commit our time, energy, and resources to efforts that will drive maximum impact
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
Articles
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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