Experienced Software Engineer, Identity and Access Management Platform
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
We are seeking a few Experienced Software Engineers with extensive backgrounds in one or more of the following:
- Large-scale distributed and backend systems development
- Development of enterprise-grade capabilities e.g. identity, permissions, data access and collaboration
- Large-scale data ingestion, data modeling, and data management platforms
- Extensible application interfaces and complex user experiences
YOUR IMPACT
As a very experienced technical individual contributor, you will work closely with our senior engineering and technical leaders. Although you will be at one of our highest levels of seniority in our career matrix, all individual contributors at Benchling are Software Engineers. This means we expect you to be hands on with other engineers and contributing code. We expect Experienced Software Engineers to spend more of their time:
- Defining technical designs for major areas of the stack
- Architecting systems to support continuous growth in the business and product capabilities
- Helping shape business tradeoffs related to key technical decisions
- Implementing portions of the system and guiding others in their implementation
- Mentoring other engineers and being a major multiplier across the team
ABOUT YOU
- You have at least 10 years of relevant experience in software engineering.
- You have served as a technical leader for a team or collection of teams.
- You have experience driving the technology roadmap for new product or platform initiatives through a deep understanding of customer use cases.
- You have strong communication and collaboration skills. You’ve worked cross-functionally with a diverse group of people with different expertise, aligning multiple stakeholders on a long-term vision.
- You hold an unrelentingly high bar for quality in the systems and products for which you’re responsible.
- With empathy, you mentor engineers across all levels.
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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.
Our leadership principles guide how all Benchlings can lead by example:
- Admit mistakes and shortcomings
- Deliver results
- Disagree and commit
- Obsess over customers
- Rely on work ethic
- Show empathy
- Recruit and develop the best
- Sweat the details
- Think and communicate clearly
- Unite around the mission
For applicants for U.S.-based roles only: All new hires in the United States are required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and to provide proof of vaccination prior to their first day of employment. If you are unable to be vaccinated for medical or religious reasons, we will explore potential reasonable accommodations; however, Benchling may not be able to grant such accommodations in all cases if doing so would cause undue hardship.
If you are a Colorado resident: Please contact us by emailing [email protected] to receive compensation and benefits information for this role. Please include the job title in the subject line of the email.