Software Engineer, Fullstack (App Core)
Benchling
- San Francisco, CA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Own projects end-to-end, from initial design, to prototype, to large-scale rollout.
- Design and architect resilient APIs, user interfaces, services, and frameworks of our application platform.
- Work hand-in-hand with product managers, designers, and fellow engineers to understand needs and shape them into scalable software solutions.
- Ensure high quality and performance of our systems through comprehensive testing, monitoring, and optimization.
- Mentor other engineers and be a major multiplier across the team.
- Drive the evolution of our product and team. As a member of the engineering team, you will be an integral part of how we mature our tooling, engineering processes, and hiring.
- Import localization: Most of our customers are in the US but we have many in EMEA and across the world, too. Since English is “the language of science”, it hasn't been critical that we localize the Benchling product, yet. But, our customers in the EMEA region had major issues importing their data into Benchling because, for example, the data in their spreadsheets might use a comma as a decimal separator instead of a period (i.e. “1.234,56” == “1,234.56”). So, we built a framework for parsing localized dates and numbers and applied it to our code that manages imports. Customers can now import data using any date or number format!
- Object creation autogen: Benchling operates on object types specific to our domain like Proteins, DNA Sequences, Notebook Entries, Workflow tasks, and Boxes. Last summer, we looked at our product roadmap and realized that as an organization we'd be bottlenecked by the number of new types we could add for the products we had planned. So, the App Core team designed a tool that bundled together existing and new codegen tooling to produce the boilerplate for new types that bootstrapped them with enterprise capabilities .
- User configurable validation rules: Though Benchling started as the central hub for our customers' data during the research phase of drug development, we're moving deeper and deeper into development and manufacturing. As we move downstream into those processes, the rules for the data that gets into Benchling become stricter and critical to our customers' success. We need a powerful, shared system that application teams can leverage to help admins apply custom validation rules that help scientists enter the right data, quickly.
- First-class notifications: Right now, all notifications from the Benchling product are emails. This makes sense for some notifications but for many scientists would prefer to get those notifications in the app itself to remove a context switch between the product and their email. We need to design and build in-app notifications as well as a preferences system so users can decide how and when they want to receive notifications.
- Have 8-12 years of experience in software engineering, ideally in a full stack platform team.
- Build software with a product-first approach. You ship code quickly and care about the real world impact of your code.
- Have strong abilities in problem solving and iterating on feedback.
- Enjoy ownership and building key pieces of product and platform
- Have a keen interest in delving deeper into building Enterprise SaaS in the life sciences industry. While prior knowledge isn't a prerequisite, an enthusiasm to learn certainly is!
- Competitive salary and equity
- 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 Summer & Winter holiday shutdown
- Sabbaticals for 5-year and 10-year anniversaries