Software Engineer, Benchling
Insights
$141.1-200.9k
+ Equity
More information about location
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
$141.1-200.9k
+ Equity
More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To unlock the power of biotechnology.
Role
Who you are
- 2+ years of experience in software engineering, ideally in a full stack role
- Experience in machine learning systems, or a track record of picking up new technical domains quickly
- You take ownership of key product and/or platform work end-to-end
- You take a product-first approach to building software. You ship code quickly and care about the real world impact of your code
- While domain knowledge in life sciences is not required, you’ll thrive in this role with curiosity and a desire to learn
What the job involves
- The Insights team is building the next generation of data analysis and visualization experiences for scientists working in Benchling
- This role is a unique opportunity to shape how our customers explore and interact with their data — bringing clarity to complex scientific processes and accelerating breakthrough research
- As a Software Engineer on this team, you’ll build new features and platform capabilities that enable scientists to analyze and visualize their data effectively and make informed decisions with ease
- Working on a wide range of projects, you'll collaborate with teams across the company to build data analysis features that integrate seamlessly with the rest of Benchling
- You’ll build and own core features for our scientific data analysis product and platform, including machine learning features to optimize experiments and AI-powered features to help scientists explore and understand their data
- You'll work across our full stack, tackling challenges from the front-end UI, our back-end architecture, to our machine learning pipelines
- You'll be a key partner to product and design, collaborating to transform ideas into thoughtful, high-quality features for our users
- You'll do more than just ship code—you'll help us build a better engineering organization by improving our tools, processes, and helping us hire great people
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.
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
- 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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