Base Salary
$225k - $305k/yr
Responsibilities
- Serve as senior technical authority for the Lab Notebook and Enterprise Lifecycle teams and drive development of their core systems.
- Architect and implement complex solutions spanning system architecture, backend models, APIs, and rich frontend UI.
- Lead large, multi-quarter initiatives from ambiguous requirements through scalable and reliable delivery.
- Make strategic technical decisions regarding platform reuse, technical debt, and long-term optionality.
- Set engineering direction, raise quality and architecture standards, and influence technical choices across the Applications division.
- Provide technical leadership through code reviews, architectural guidance, and mentorship.
- Partner with product management, design, and cross-functional stakeholders to translate customer and regulatory needs into technical solutions.
- Evaluate AI and LLM opportunities for data capture, audit reporting, and compliance workflows.
- Collaborate across teams to integrate horizontal systems and enable broader product development.
- Own critical features end to end through planning, development, deployment, maintenance, and monitoring, while helping scale tooling, processes, interviewing, hiring, and onboarding.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with increasing scope and impact.
- Experience serving as a technical lead on significant, multi-quarter projects involving multiple engineers.
- Strong experience building backend systems and APIs for cloud-based web applications, with the ability to work full-stack when needed.
- Experience designing scalable, robust architectures aligned with business requirements and long-term maintainability.
- Track record of independently scoping and driving initiative-level work spanning multiple teams and shaping a product area or division.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills for producing technical designs and aligning engineers on implementation strategies.
- Ability to mentor and develop engineers while raising standards for testing, performance, and maintainability.
- Interest in learning life sciences; biotech knowledge is appreciated but not required, while audit, compliance, or GxP-regulated software experience is a plus.
- React, Python, and PostgreSQL experience is appreciated but not required if the candidate can learn them quickly.
Benefits
- Flexible hybrid work arrangement with in-office collaboration required three days per week: Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday.
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About Benchling
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 200,000 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.