Software Engineer, Growth
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.
ROLE OVERVIEW
Benchling's intuitive, user-friendly platform ensures that research in the life sciences isn't held back by outdated and disconnected tools. With Benchling, individual scientists and entire laboratories can capitalize on their scientific potential. Best of all, the core platform is free for academics. We’re looking for engineers to iterate on the user experience of mission-critical workflows, build core product features to promote scientific collaboration within our community, and help make Benchling be more data-driven. You’ll also serve as a key input and thought leader, working closely with the product teams to drive growth and engagement of our academic user base, and help make Benchling the default platform for life sciences research.
If you are to graduate with your Bachelor's or Master's degree in class of 2021-2022, please consider applying to our Software Engineer, New Graduate position here.
YOU MIGHT WORK ON
Check out our engineering blog for some examples of past work. On this team, you’ll have the unique chance to work on a small, fast-moving team in a hypothesis-driven and iterative fashion, while building core product features. Here are some examples of recent and future projects:
- Re-imagine the new user experience in Benchling: Benchling’s academic product is powerful, but also complex — just like the science that our users are doing. You will build the next version of our onboarding flow and the new user experience, which will help users get comfortable within our academic product and ultimately enable users to start their scientific research faster.
- Encourage users to collaborate more within Benchling: The most cutting-edge scientific discoveries are often driven by collaboration in academia. In Benchling, academic users join organizations to collaborate on protocols, experiments, and sequences. We’ve begun to make it easier for users to discover organizations of other Benchling users. You will build out this and related product features to enable users to share data with their colleagues more easily.
- Keep users engaged with our academic product: Academic users capture their scientific data in Benchling over multiple years, throughout the course of their Ph.D. or postdoctoral research. We want to ensure that users continuously derive value from Benchling, regardless of whether they remain in academia or if they transition to industry. You will build: guided experiences to help users discover new product features, improved invitation mechanisms so users can encourage more of their colleagues to join Benchling, and more meaningful in-product notifications to keep users up-to-date on relevant activity from their colleagues within Benchling.
- Define and implement A/B testing and experimentation within our product to demonstrate how your work directly affects our users’ experience within our product.
- Own the experimentation framework and help develop organization-wide best practices for running growth experiments within our products.
- Partner with Product, Data Science, Engineering, Customer Experience, and Marketing to help define key metrics that will guide decisions on our product roadmap.
- Design and build core product features that academic users need to accelerate their research, and stay engaged throughout their experimental lifecycle.
- Help rapidly scale our product and team. As a founding member of the Growth engineering team, you'll play an integral role in helping us mature our engineering processes and accelerate our hiring pipeline.
ABOUT YOU
- Have 4+ years of experience in software engineering, especially in full-stack software development
- Have experience working on growth teams or experience in developing and releasing iterations of product features quickly in order to get user feedback more frequently
- Have experience working with data scientists on designing and running A/B tests and experiments
- Passionate about mentoring other engineers and sharing knowledge across engineering teams
- Interest in learning more about life sciences (prior knowledge is not required; desire to learn is a must).
Nice to have:
- Experience with SQL, as our data analytics stack is heavily based on Snowflake and PostgreSQL
- Experience with experimentation frameworks such as LaunchDarkly or Optimizely
IF YOU ARE SEEKING A NEW GRAD POSITION / INTERNSHIP:
- Apply for our Summer 2022 software engineering internship program here.
- For new grads, class of 2021-2022, who are seeking a full time position after graduation, please apply to our Software Engineer, New Graduate position here.
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 (Currently US Employees Only)
- Yearly educational stipend (Currently US Employees Only)
- 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.
In following best practices and safety protocols, all Benchling employees are expected to work remotely until we are further advised that it is safe for employees to resume work in their respective office locations.
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.
