8 months ago
Base Salary
$187k - $252k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and develop products and systems supporting enterprise regulatory submissions, audits, and compliance workflows.
- Architect and implement solutions for audit coverage, scalable exports, document lifecycle management, and regulatory processes.
- Lead large, multi-quarter initiatives by turning ambiguous requirements into technical plans and delivery milestones.
- Design systems for scale and reliability across a growing enterprise customer base.
- Write well-documented, well-tested code and establish team standards for quality, style, and architecture.
- Provide technical leadership through code reviews, architectural guidance, and mentorship.
- Partner with product management, design, and cross-functional stakeholders to translate customer needs into technical solutions.
- Evaluate AI and LLM opportunities to improve compliance workflows, audit reporting, and regulatory navigation.
- Own critical features from planning and development through deployment, maintenance, and monitoring.
- Collaborate across engineering teams to integrate horizontal systems and enable product development.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience with increasing scope and impact.
- Experience serving as a technical lead on significant, multi-engineer projects spanning multiple quarters.
- Strong experience building backend systems and APIs for cloud-based web applications.
- Solid frontend development knowledge and the ability to build full-stack solutions.
- Experience designing scalable, robust software architectures aligned with business requirements and maintainability.
- Ability to independently scope and drive initiative-level work across a product area or team.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including technical design and explanation of complex concepts.
- Ability to mentor and develop other engineers.
- Interest in learning about life sciences; prior biotechnology knowledge is not required.
Benefits
- Flexible hybrid arrangement with on-site work expected 3 days per week on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday.
- Medical, dental, and vision plans for employees and dependents.
- Fertility healthcare and family-forming benefits.
- Four months of fully paid parental leave.
- 401(k) with employer match.
- Commuter benefits for in-office employees and a home office setup stipend for remote employees.
- Mental health benefits including therapy and coaching.
- Monthly wellness stipend.
- Learning and development stipend.
- Flexible vacation, company-wide winter holiday shutdown, and sabbaticals at 5-year and 10-year anniversaries.
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About Benchling
Benchling builds an R&D cloud and AI platform for life sciences, combining electronic lab notebooks, sample/registry management, workflow automation, and developer APIs to run models and integrate data. It sells subscriptions and services to biopharma, biotech, and research organizations; customers include Sanofi and Moderna. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company is privately held.