Software Engineer, Applications (High Seniority)

Benchling • San Francisco, CA

83d • $214,646 - $290,404 • Hybrid

About The Position

Benchling is on a mission to accelerate the pace of life sciences research and development. To do that, we build a suite of tools that scientists use daily to tackle humanity's most pressing problems. The tools we build must be optimized to make scientists more efficient in their work, across a broad spectrum of research, development, and manufacturing tasks. Our platform offers life sciences and pharmaceutical researchers a collection of tools that speak to the general workflow of the research and development process, with an emphasis on configurability to meet individual needs and a limited amount of domain-specific assumptions or know-how built in. To meet accelerating trends in specific pharmaceutical drug R&D approaches like antibody discovery & optimization and medicinal chemistry, Benchling has recently shifted focus to producing integrated subdomain-specific solutions for scientific organizations. Our goal is to provide best-in-class tools for pharma R&D across all scientific modalities.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Evidence that you build software with a product-first approach and ship with a focus on impact. You write code quickly, with quality, and care about the real world impact of your code.
• Demonstrated delivery of complex enterprise systems, and solid software architecture thinking and design skills.
• Proven track record of continuous learning. We have a comprehensive React-based frontend and python backend, built on top of a predominantly relational data storage model in Postgres. Prior direct experience with our stack is appreciated but not required-but you should be facile with these technologies or able to pick them up quickly.
• Strong grasp of software engineering principles and ability to raise the team's bar in areas such as testing, system performance, and maintainability.
• Have strong abilities in problem solving and iterating on feedback.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills. Able to use influencing skills rooted in technical expertise to persuade software engineers to align on an implementation strategy.
• Are interested in learning more about life science (prior knowledge is strongly appreciated but not required; a desire to learn is a must).

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with tools for monitoring, deployment, and scaling.
• Particularly interested in candidates with a focus on frontend development.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement key functionality from system architecture to backend models and API endpoints to front end UI for complex scientific workflows.
• Use technical decision making as a tool of engineering strategy: identify how to best leverage existing system capabilities and engineering resources across teams to efficiently deliver solutions to our customers; use technical debt wisely as a tool to balance short- and long-term objectives; identify technical choices that add functionality quickly or preserve optionality for the long term.
• Empower engineering team members to deliver and improve the quality and velocity of their delivery through mentorship and teamwork.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineering leadership to ensure the right context is being shared.
• Help build and scale our product and team. As a member of the engineering team, you'll be an integral part of how we mature our tooling, standard methodologies, engineering processes, and hiring.

Benefits

• Competitive total rewards package
• Broad range of medical, dental, and vision plans for employees and their dependents
• Fertility healthcare and family-forming benefits
• Four months of fully paid parental leave
• 401(k) + Employer Match
• Commuter benefits for in-office employees and a generous home office set up stipend for remote employees
• Mental health benefits, including therapy and coaching, for employees and their dependents
• Monthly Wellness stipend
• Learning and development stipend
• Generous and flexible vacation
• Company-wide Winter holiday shutdown
• Sabbaticals for 5-year and 10-year anniversaries

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees