Benchling

Biotechnology is rewriting life as we know it, from the medicines we take, to the crops we grow, the materials we wear, 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 and accelerate time to milestone and market.

Come help us bring modern software to modern science.

ROLE OVERVIEW

Benchling is seeking a Software Engineer to join our Notebook Canvas, one of two teams that own Benchling’s widely-used Notebook product. At Benchling, we’re on a mission to accelerate the pace of life sciences research. To do that, we build a suite of tools that scientists use daily to solve humanity's most pressing problems. To achieve our mission, the Notebook Canvas team is focused on delivering a powerful, flexible, and user-friendly digital lab notebook that enables scientists to plan, document, and share their research seamlessly. As a member of this team, you'll play a key role in building intuitive interfaces, developing robust backend services, and ensuring our platform scales to meet the needs of researchers around the world. You'll collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to deliver a product that improves scientific workflows and empower groundbreaking discoveries.

Our team values technical excellence, a deep understanding of user needs, and a commitment to building products that make complex scientific work easier and more efficient. If you're excited about solving challenging technical problems that have a meaningful impact on global health and innovation, we’d love to hear from you.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Build large-scale projects end-to-end, from ideation with cross-functional partners, through to rollout to end-users.
• Engineer across our stack, from designing and implementing backend models & APIs to crafting rich frontend components and architecture.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and other teams to build the best product possible for our users.
• Create entirely net-new products, while also investing in taking existing products to feature completeness.
• Be a core team member, helping to shape the way we work together, while also participating in technical & architectural discussions among engineers inside & outside the team.

QUALIFICATIONS

• You have 3+ years of experience in a fulltime software engineering role.
• Build software with a product-first approach. You ship code quickly and care about the real world impact of your code.
• Experience developing both user-facing & backend experiences in a web application.
• Experience with React, or similar javascript-based frontend application frameworks
• Experience leading & delivering projects from start to finish, independently or as a part of a larger team
• Enjoy a high-degree of ownership in key areas of the software product you’re building
• Are interested in learning more about life science (prior knowledge is not required; desire to learn is a must).

HOW WE WORK

Flexible Hybrid Work: We offer a flexible hybrid work arrangement that prioritizes in-office collaboration. Employees are expected to be on-site 3 days per week.

SALARY RANGE

Benchling takes a market-based approach to pay. The candidate's starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, interview performance, and work location. For this role the base salary range is $165,113 - $223,388.

To help you determine which zone applies to your location, please see this resource. If you have questions regarding a specific location's zone designation, please contact a recruiter for additional information.

Total Compensation includes the following:

• Competitive total rewards package
• Broad range of medical, dental, and vision plans for employees and their dependents
• Fertility healthcare and family-forming benefits
• Four months of fully paid parental leave
• 401(k) + Employer Match
• Commuter benefits for in-office employees and a generous home office set up stipend for remote employees
• Mental health benefits, including therapy and coaching, for employees and their dependents
• Monthly Wellness stipend
• Learning and development stipend
• Generous and flexible vacation
• Company-wide Winter holiday shutdown
• Sabbaticals for 5-year and 10-year anniversaries

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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.

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