Experienced Software Engineer, Notebook
Over the coming years, biotech will fundamentally rewrite the way we live. Gene editing and cell therapy are dramatically changing how we treat cancer and other major illnesses. Biofuels and biomaterials are transforming the cars we drive, the clothes we wear, and the makeup of everyday objects. Crop science and synthetic biology are producing sustainable and ethical food. Benchling’s mission is to accelerate the research that propels us towards this reality, and magnify its impact, through modern software.
Every day, scientists around the world use Benchling’s applications, platform, & analytics in their efforts to solve humanity’s most pressing problems. For these scientists, Benchling is the central technology they use to conduct their research. Our customers include pharmaceutical giants, leading biotechs, and the world’s most renowned research institutes.
For these scientists, Benchling is the central technology they use to conduct their research. And the lab notebook is an indispensable part of that scientist’s day. It contains all of her notes on her experiments, how they were conducted and their results allowing the scientist to look back and remember exactly how she performed experiments. Plus, the notebook serves as legal documentation for regulator approvals.
Benchling’s Notebook takes on all of those responsibilities and then gives the Notebook super powers to orchestrate functions across the entire Benchling platform. With Excel-like tables that allow creating new entities, recording and publishing experiment results and recording transfers, scientists using Benchling’s Notebook can do things that their old Notebook could never do. And it’s the Notebook team’s job to keep adding new, time saving features while ensuring the scientist keeps having magical moments while using Benchling!
We are seeking an Experienced Software Engineer to help evolve the Benchling Notebook interface that provides the core interface to Benchling for scientists. You’ll work on designing and building an online editing platform that can provides a consistent UI and allows surfacing content from other teams at Benchling or other companies. This will be done through extensible Typescript-defined React components using GraphQL all while keeping an eye on performance and scalability with a metrics driven mindset.
This role has an opportunity to define how work gets done within Benchling and the greater Life Science industry.
ROLE OVERVIEW
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:
- Leading design and discussions for a long-term technical roadmap for the Notebook platform
- Architecting interfaces to support continuous growth in the Benchling application interface
- 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 designed and implemented large, responsive React UIs
- 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 web-based products 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
- You enjoy building complex products that are loved by users
Benchling welcomes everyone. We believe every member of our team enriches our diversity and inclusion by broadening our ways of problem-solving for future challenges. Even if you don't meet 100% of the qualifications for this job, we strongly encourage you to apply.
LEADERSHIP PRINCIPLES
- 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
PERKS AND BENEFITS
- Work with a talented yet humble team
- Competitive compensation & equity package
- Weekly virtual social events, and annual company retreats
- 401k, Medical, dental, and vision insurance (US Employees Only)
- Monthly health & wellness stipend
- Yearly educational stipend
- Flexible & Generous Vacation Policy: If you feel you need a break, you can talk directly with your manager to find coverage and support while you are out of the office. Need time off to vote? We've got you covered.
- Quarterly company-wide mental health days off
- Holiday Shut-down: company-wide holiday shut-down between Christmas Eve and New Years
- Major US and EMEA holidays observed
- To support remote work conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic, Benchling provides each employee a one-time stipend of $1,000(USD) upon commencing employment, and additional discounted employee purchase plans for home-office equipment.
Protecting the health of our employees and the candidates interested in a role at Benchling is our top priority. We appreciate your understanding and being open and flexible with any changes related to our interviewing process.
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 an undue hardship.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not 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.