Full Stack, Application Platform (Experienced)

Biotechnology is rewriting life as we know it from the medicines we take to the crops we grow the materials we wear and the household goods that we rely on every day. But moving at the new speed of science requires better technology.

Benchlings mission is to unlock the power of biotechnology. The worlds most innovative biotech companies use Benchlings R&D Cloud to power the development of breakthrough products and accelerate time to milestone and market.

Come help us bring modern software to modern science.

ROLE OVERVIEW

The Application Platform team builds and provides a foundation for the rest of Benchling to build on making it easy to guarantee that all applications on Benchling share mission-critical capabilities and are secure and compliant by default. Our Application Platform is critical to enable Benchling to expand its footprint into new product areas and support requirements for our enterprise customers.

We partner with product engineering to ensure our platform integrates seamlessly with scientist-facing Benchling products. As an engineer on the Application Platform team youll design and build systems that are foundational to Benchlings long-term growth and operational excellence. Your work will span across application and platform teams directly influencing company-wide initiatives by enabling faster safer and more reliable software delivery for our customers.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Drive end-to-end delivery of large-scale application platform projects from early-stage ideation with cross-functional partners in Product and Customer Success to full rollout for end-users seamlessly integrating with AI driven experiences where they add the most value.
• Engineer across the full tech stack architect robust admin backend and APIs and build intuitive admin experiences that scale with our enterprise customers evolving needs. Ensure high quality and performance of our systems through comprehensive testing & monitoring.
• Collaborate deeply with product managers designers and engineering peers to craft thoughtful high-impact products that truly serve our users.
• Innovate boldly launch entirely new product experiences from scratch while also enhancing and refining our platform products to reach full enterprise grade maturity.
• Drive the evolution of our product platform and team. As a member of the engineering team you will be an integral part of how we mature our tooling engineering processes and hiring the best talent.

QUALIFICATIONS

• 8 years of professional software engineering experience
• Strong coding skills and engineering fundamentals able to turn product requirements into well-architected maintainable and tested code
• Experience building scalable reliable systems with attention to performance and user impact
• Leadership in engineering practices drives and upholds high standards in testing code quality reviews version control and team development workflows
• Proven ability to work across teams partnering with product design and platform groups to ship cohesive solutions
• Strategic problem solving tackles complex ambiguous technical challenges with a focus on long-term impact scalability and user value
• Comfortable pushing back thoughtfully advocate for technical solutions that improve quality scalability and maintainability
• Experience mentoring others and contributing to team growth through onboarding pairing and process improvement
• Clear and effective communicator especially in cross-functional settings

HOW WE WORK

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).

SALARY RANGE

Benchling takes a market-based approach to pay. The candidates starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills experience qualifications interview performance and work location. For this role the base salary range is $186622 to $252488 .

To help you determine which zone applies to your location please see this resource. If you have questions regarding a specific locations zone designation please contact a recruiter for additional information.

Total Compensation includes the following:

• 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

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Benchling welcomes everyone.

We believe diversity enriches our team so we hire people with a wide range of identities backgrounds and experiences.

We are an equal opportunity employer. That means we dont discriminate on the basis of race religion color national origin gender sexual orientation age marital status veteran status or disability status. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records consistent with applicable federal state and local law including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

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Required Experience:

Senior IC