Software Engineer, Applications (App Foundations) (High Seniority)

Benchling
San Francisco
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 225,378 - 304,924 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 8+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Mentorship","Technical leadership","Product sense","Influence"]

Build and own horizontally impactful systems for Benchling’s Lab Notebook and Enterprise Lifecycle teams, covering audit trails, review and approval flows, exports, backups, and document lifecycle management. Lead large, multi-quarter initiatives by translating ambiguous requirements into scalable architectures, APIs, and full-stack solutions using React and Python/Postgres. Serve as a senior IC authority, mentoring engineers and partnering with product, design, and compliance stakeholders, while exploring AI/LLM opportunities.

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Software Engineer, Applications (App Foundations) (High Seniority)

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Job Summary

Build and own horizontally impactful systems for Benchling’s Lab Notebook and Enterprise Lifecycle teams, covering audit trails, review and approval flows, exports, backups, and document lifecycle management. Lead large, multi-quarter initiatives by translating ambiguous requirements into scalable architectures, APIs, and full-stack solutions using React and Python/Postgres. Serve as a senior IC authority, mentoring engineers and partnering with product, design, and compliance stakeholders, while exploring AI/LLM opportunities.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Serve as senior technical authority for Lab Notebook and Enterprise Lifecycle systems, driving design and development of core product surfaces.
  • •Architect and implement solutions to complex, open-ended problems across system architecture, backend models and APIs, and frontend UI.
  • •Lead large, multi-quarter initiatives by breaking down ambiguous requirements into concrete technical plans and delivery milestones focused on scale and reliability.
  • •Provide technical leadership through code review, architectural guidance, and mentorship across experience levels.
  • •Partner with product management, design, and cross-functional stakeholders to translate regulatory and compliance needs into technical solutions.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 225,378 - 304,924 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •8+ years of professional software engineering experience with increasing scope and impact.
  • •Experience as a technical lead on significant projects involving multiple engineers across multiple quarters.
  • •Strong backend systems and API experience for cloud-based web applications, with ability to build full-stack; React frontend and Python backend on a relational Postgres model are part of the stack.
  • •Demonstrated ability to design scalable, robust architectures aligned with business requirements and long-term maintainability for horizontal systems.
  • •Track record independently scoping and driving initiative-level work spanning multiple teams, plus strong communication and mentoring capability.
Experience:8+ yearsBiotechLife sciencesGxP-regulated software
Skills:CommunicationMentorshipTechnical leadershipProduct senseInfluence
Tech Stack:ReactPythonPostgresAPIsLLMsAI agentsCloud

Company Brief

Benchling
Provides a cloud-based R&D Cloud and laboratory informatics platform that centralizes scientific data, streamlines experiments, and accelerates biotechnology and life-science research and development for biotech, pharma, and academic teams.
Industry: Biotech
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Revenue: USD 100M to 250M
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2012
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