Benchling

Benchling

Software Engineer, Applications (Scientific Development Solutions) (High Seniority)

San Francisco, CA

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 1 day ago
PythonReactFull-Stack DevelopmentCode ReviewPostgreSQLLLMsAgentic AIGMPLeadershipCommunicationMentoring

About the role

  • capturing and analyzing complex time-series data
  • and orchestrating the biological and IT-driven workflows behind sample management, analytical chemistry, and bioprocess development.
  • Successful deployments measurably accelerate how quickly our customers bring therapies to market.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the senior technical authority for the Study Lifecycle and Process Execution teams, driving the design and development of systems that advance Benchling's product and business goals across studies, workflows, procedures, and bioprocess/bioanalytical workflows.
  • Independently architect and implement solutions to complex, open-ended problems - from system architecture to backend models and APIs to rich frontend UI - for scientific workflows used in regulated (GLP/GMP) environments.
  • Lead large, multi-quarter initiatives: break down ambiguous scientific and regulatory requirements into concrete technical plans and iterative delivery milestones.
  • Partner closely with product management, design, and cross-functional stakeholders to translate customer and scientific needs into technical solutions.
  • Own end-to-end delivery of critical features - from planning and development through deployment, maintenance, and monitoring.
  • Help build and scale the team by improving our tooling, engineering processes, interviewing, hiring, and onboarding.
  • You'll design and build full-stack across studies, workflows, procedures, and bioprocess/bioanalytical use cases, translating ambiguous scientific and regulatory requirements into durable systems.

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.
  • 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).
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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 regulated, GLP/GMP, or laboratory/manufacturing 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

  • SDS owns Benchling's Studies, Workflows, and Procedures products - the core of our "Benchling for Development" solution - and our work is frequently sought out by the enterprise customers with the most demanding GLP/GMP regulatory needs.
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