Software Engineer, Full Stack (Enterprise Lifecycle) (High Seniority)

Benchling is the AI platform for biotech R&D, trusted by over 200,000 scientists and more than half of the world's top 50 biopharma companies. The platform enables scientists to design experiments, capture structured data, and run AI agents and models directly in their workflows.

The Enterprise Lifecycle team is a newly formed engineering team dedicated to ensuring Benchling's largest customers succeed in regulated environments. As a Software Engineer, you will be a technical leader designing and building critical systems for regulatory submissions and audits, owning horizontally impactful systems that enable features in FDA submissions and GxP-regulated workflows.

• Drive design and development of innovative products and systems, serving as a technical expert within the team.
• Independently architect and implement solutions for comprehensive audit coverage, scalable export systems, document lifecycle management, and regulatory compliance workflows.
• Lead large, sophisticated initiatives spanning multiple quarters, breaking down ambiguous requirements into concrete technical plans.
• Design for scale and reliability, anticipating technical challenges across a growing enterprise customer base.
• Write well-documented, well-tested code and provide technical leadership through code reviews, architectural guidance, and mentorship.
• Partner with product management, design, and cross-functional stakeholders to translate customer needs into technical solutions.
• Explore and evaluate opportunities to leverage AI and LLMs to improve compliance workflows, audit reporting, and regulatory navigation.
• Establish and improve standards of code quality, style, and architecture at the team level.
• Own end-to-end delivery of critical features, from planning through deployment, maintenance, and monitoring.

• 8+ years of experience as a software engineer, with demonstrated progression of increasing scope and impact.
• Experience as a technical lead on significant projects involving multiple engineers across multiple quarters.
• Strong experience building backend systems and APIs for cloud-based web applications.
• Solid understanding of frontend development and the ability to build full-stack solutions when needed.
• Proven ability to design scalable, robust software architectures that align with business requirements.
• Track record of independently scoping and driving initiative-level work with feature scope and impact across a whole product area or team.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and develop other engineers.
• Interest in learning about life sciences; prior biotech knowledge not required.

Salary range: $225,378 – $304,924 USD per year, plus equity.

Flexible hybrid work arrangement with employees expected on-site 3 days per week (Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday).