Benchling is expanding into additional modalities including chemistry, and has a plan to rapidly bring tools to the chemistry market. This is a major step forward, as these capabilities are among the most often requested by our customers, and they align with Benchling’s work on antibodies and other modalities as well as development. The chemistry team will build from our existing support for molecules toward a full chemistry solution, integrated with our notebook and our core registry product. Benchling’s customers interact with our products daily, and they trust them with their most important assets. Chemistry is a full-stack team on a mission to accelerate science by creating powerful, intuitive tools that support a broad range of scientific workflows. We obsess over quality and data integrity.
Requirements
- 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
- 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
- Curiosity and adaptability – excited to learn about life sciences and work in a fast-changing domain (no prior domain knowledge required – though it’s a huge bonus )
Responsibilities
- Drive complex, end-to-end projects: Lead the design, implementation, and delivery of high-impact features and systems across the stack (React + Python).
- Shape technical direction and architecture: Make foundational engineering decisions that improve system performance, reliability, and scalability.
- Identify and address technical debt: Own proactive improvements to the codebase and infrastructure.
- Design for performance and scale: Build systems that can handle the complexity and scale of life sciences R&D.
- Mentor and support other engineers: Act as a technical mentor and sounding board for other engineers.
- Elevate code quality and engineering practices: Set high standards for code quality, testing, documentation, and operational excellence.
- Embrace ambiguity and domain complexity: Operate effectively in a fast-paced environment with evolving scientific requirements.
Other
- Collaborate cross-functionally: Work closely with product managers, designers, customer success, and other engineering teams to create clarity and ensure alignment on goals, seamless handoffs, and shared understanding of scientific user needs.
- Act with ownership and accountability: Take responsibility not just for your code, but for the outcomes it enables.
- Proven ability to work across teams – partnering with product, design, and platform groups to ship cohesive solutions
- Clear and effective communicator, especially in cross-functional settings
- 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).
