Benchling
Software Engineer, Platform (Developer Experience)
San Francisco, CA · Mid
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About the role
- Developer Experience is a crucial function that empowers our engineers to excel in their craft.
- By understanding the unique challenges developers face and crafting solutions to remove engineering friction, you'll play a key role in driving innovation and fulfilling Benchling's mission.
Responsibilities
- Build and implement tooling for efficient, frictionless development, testing, and packaging for production release.
- Implement feedback loops that integrate quality into software development workflows.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to address challenges in engineering workflows that impact developer happiness and productivity.
- Work closely with product managers, designers, and peers in engineering to make Benchling a delightful place to develop software.
- Your success will enable our engineering teams to efficiently deliver high quality products.
Requirements
- You have 4+ years of experience in software engineering.
- Expertise with at least one web framework, preferably node or python.
- Build tools and software with a product-first approach. You ship code quickly and care about the real world impact of your code.
- Have strong abilities in problem solving and iterating on feedback.
- Enjoy ownership and building key pieces of product.
- Have empathy for your customers and curiosity about their challenges.
- Are interested in learning more about life science (prior knowledge is not required
- desire to learn is a must).
- Clear and effective communicator, especially in cross-functional settings
- We offer a flexible hybrid work arrangement that prioritizes in-office collaboration. Employees are expected to be on-site 3 days per week (Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday).
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Nice to have
- Experience with GraphQL preferred.
Skills
- When a breakthrough is delayed, the world waits.
- Getting a molecule from discovery to patients, or a crop from lab to field, involves thousands of slow, manual, disconnected steps.
- AI has the potential to change this, compressing decades of R&D work into years.
- But that only happens when clean, structured scientific data and AI are built into how science gets done.
- Benchling is the AI platform for biotech R&D.
Company info
- We are rebuilding biotech for the AI era.
- As a member of the engineering team, you'll be an integral part of how we mature our tooling, best practices, engineering processes, and hiring.
- Help rapidly scale our product and team. As a member of the engineering team, you'll be an integral part of how we mature our tooling, best practices, engineering processes, and hiring.
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