Benchling

Benchling

Software Engineer, Applications (App Foundations) (High Seniority)

San Francisco, CA · Senior

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 91 days ago
PythonReactFull-Stack DevelopmentCode ReviewPostgreSQLLLMsAgentic AIFDA RegulatoryLeadershipCommunicationMentoringGxP

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About the role

  • On one side, that's how scientists capture their work every day - the Notebook and the structured data-input tables where experimental data becomes clean, structured, and analyzable.
  • On the other, it's the enterprise lifecycle capabilities that make that data trustworthy at scale: audit trails, review and approval, exports, and backups.
  • This role sits squarely at the intersection of platform and product work, and demands both deep technical expertise and strong product sense.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the senior technical authority for the Lab Notebook and Enterprise Lifecycle teams, driving the design and development of the Notebook, structured data-input, and enterprise lifecycle systems that anchor the Benchling product.
  • Lead large, multi-quarter initiatives: break down ambiguous requirements into concrete technical plans and iterative delivery milestones, designing for scale and reliability across a growing enterprise customer base.
  • Partner closely with product management, design, and cross-functional stakeholders to translate customer needs - including regulatory and compliance needs - into technical solutions.
  • Collaborate with other teams to ensure our horizontal systems integrate seamlessly and enable product development across the organization.
  • Own end-to-end delivery of critical features - from planning and development through deployment, maintenance, and monitoring - and help scale our tooling, engineering processes, interviewing, hiring, and onboarding.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a demonstrated progression of increasing scope and impact.
  • Track record of independently scoping and driving initiative-level work whose impact spans multiple teams and shapes an entire product area or division.
  • Experience as a technical lead on significant projects involving multiple engineers across multiple quarters.
  • Strong experience building backend systems and APIs for cloud-based web applications, plus the ability to build full-stack when needed. Our stack is a comprehensive React frontend and a Python backend on a predominantly relational data model in Postgres
  • Proven ability to design scalable, robust architectures that align with business requirements and long-term maintainability, especially for horizontal systems that many teams build on.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills - able to produce clear technical designs and use influence rooted in technical expertise to align other engineers on an implementation strategy.
  • Demonstrated ability to mentor and develop other engineers, raising the team's bar in areas such as testing, performance, and maintainability.
  • Interest in learning about life sciences. Prior biotech knowledge is appreciated but not required
  • 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).
  • #LI-Hybrid
  • #BI-Hybrid

Nice to have

  • Our stack is a comprehensive React frontend and a Python backend on a predominantly relational data model in Postgres
  • direct experience is appreciated but not required if you can pick it up quickly.
  • Prior biotech knowledge is appreciated but not required
  • enthusiasm to learn is essential. (Experience with audit, compliance, or GxP-regulated software is a plus.)

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.
  • Explore and evaluate opportunities to leverage AI and LLMs to improve data capture, audit reporting, and compliance workflows for our customers.
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