About the position
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 scientists 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.
- Dive into a mature codebase, help shape a north star vision for technical investments and build an incremental roadmap to drive towards it.
- 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.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering with proven technical leadership in architecting and delivering complex solutions with company-wide impact.
- Drive innovative product development as a technical leader within your domain, owning large projects from concept to completion while mentoring senior engineers.
- Expert in both frontend (React or similar frameworks) and backend development for enterprise web applications.
- Independently develop high-quality technical designs, establish engineering standards, and advocate for new methodologies that improve team effectiveness.
- Proactively identify, communicate, and resolve technical challenges while making business-aware prioritization decisions at the quarterly roadmap level.
- Deeply understand customer needs and translate them into technical solutions that advance product and business goals.
- Are interested in learning more about life science (prior knowledge is not required; desire to learn is a must).
Benefits
- 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
