Biotechnology is rewriting life as we know it, but moving at the new speed of science requires better technology. Benchling's mission is to unlock the power of biotechnology by providing R&D Cloud tools to accelerate the development of breakthrough products and speed up time to market.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Evidence that you build software with a product-first approach and ship with a focus on impact. You write code quickly, with quality, and care about the real world impact of your code.
- Demonstrated delivery of complex enterprise systems, and solid software architecture thinking and design skills.
- Proven track record of continuous learning. We have a comprehensive React-based frontend and python backend, built on top of a predominantly relational data storage model in Postgres. Prior direct experience with our stack is appreciated but not required–but you should be facile with these technologies or able to pick them up quickly.
- You stay on top of industry trends and further identify new technologies that we could incorporate in our stack to accomplish our longer-term aims when delivering enterprise solutions.
- Strong grasp of software engineering principles and ability to raise the team’s bar in areas such as testing, system performance, and maintainability. Familiarity with tools for monitoring, deployment, and scaling.
- Have strong abilities in problem solving and iterating on feedback.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement key functionality from system architecture to backend models and API endpoints to front end UI for complex scientific workflows.
- Use technical decision making as a tool of engineering strategy: identify how to best leverage existing system capabilities and engineering resources across teams to efficiently deliver solutions to our customers; use technical debt wisely as a tool to balance short- and long-term objectives; identify technical choices that add functionality quickly or preserve optionality for the long term.
- Empower engineering team members to deliver and improve the quality and velocity of their delivery through mentorship and teamwork.
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineering leadership to ensure the right context is being shared.
- Help build and scale our product and team. As a member of the engineering team, you'll be an integral part of how we mature our tooling, standard methodologies, engineering processes, and hiring.
Other
- This role reports to the Head of Applications within Engineering.
- While this role, like most Applications engineering roles, is on a full stack engineering team, we are particularly interested in candidates with a focus on frontend development.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills. Able to use influencing skills rooted in technical expertise to persuade software engineers to align on an implementation strategy.
- Are interested in learning more about life science (prior knowledge is strongly appreciated but not required; a desire to learn is a must).
- Employees are expected to be on-site 3 days per week (Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday).
