Software Engineer Platform (Developer Experience)

We are rebuilding biotech for the AI era.
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. Scientists use Benchling to design experiments capture structured data and run AI agents and models directly in their workflows. Over 200000 scientists around the world trust Benchling to power their most important work from academic labs to Sanofi Moderna and more than half of the world's top 50 biopharma.
We’re building an AI scientist for our customers. We can’t do that if we haven’t built the muscle ourselves. AI fluency is the foundation we build on; it's core to how we work and we're committed to helping every new hire integrate it into their day-to-day. As part of our interview process you'll complete a brief AI-focused exercise or discussion so we can understand how you think about and use AI to drive impact in your role. Feel free to reference any tools platforms or workflows you use today.

Benchling's mission is to unlock the power of biotechnology. The world's most innovative biotech companies use Benchling's R&D Cloud to power the development of breakthrough products and to accelerate time to milestone and market. Benchling's customers generate a rich variety of science data. To keep up innovation Benchling needs highly scalable and effective infrastructure and developer experience pipelines that serve our internal engineers.

Developer Experience is a crucial function that empowers our engineers to excel in their craft. As a technical leader in the Platform pillar you’ll work closely with the Developer Productivity and Release Engineering teams to create tools and frameworks that enhance developer experience with a focus on the Path to Production. Your success will enable our engineering teams to efficiently deliver high quality products. By understanding the unique challenges developers face and crafting solutions to streamline their workflows you'll play a key role in driving innovation and fulfilling Benchling’s mission. 

• Build and implement tooling for efficient frictionless development testing and packaging for production release.

• Lead the design and development of release tooling that enables code changes to reach production within 10 minutes.

• Iterate on developer experience improvements using qualitative and quantitative feedback.

• Implement feedback loops that integrate quality into software development workflows.

• Champion effective engineering and operational patterns across the Engineering org.

• 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.

• 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. 

• Have 7+ years of experience in software engineering.

• Have 5+ years of experience with containerized applications (Docker Kubernetes etc) in production.

• Build software with a product-first approach. You ship code quickly and care about the real world impact of your code.

• Expertise with at least one web framework preferably node or python.

• 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 

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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 don’t 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.

What We Do

Biotechnology is rewriting life as we know it from the medicines we take to the crops we grow and the household goods that we rely on every day. But moving at the new speed of science requires better technology. Benchling’s mission is to unlock the power of biotechnology. The world’s most innovative biotech companies use Benchling’s R&D Cloud to power the development of breakthrough products. Help us bring modern software to modern science. We’re on Team Science We believe in the promise of science and the teamwork required to fulfill that promise. Whether your background is in science engineering business or another field you’re on Team Science if you believe in the power of science to solve the world’s most pressing problems.

Why Work With Us

Everyday at Benchling you’re surrounded by talented people who are really excited about the work they’re doing and the impact they’re having. It’s truly uplifting to work on a product that you can believe in and to work alongside colleagues who are energized by the shared vision of a future with less disease and greater sustainability.

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