Software Engineer, Full Stack (Enterprise Lifecycle) (High Seniority)
Benchling- Compensation
- $225k–$305k Published range
- Location
- Hybrid - San Francisco, CA, 3 days/week Remote eligibility
- Employment
- Full-time Senior
About the job
About Benchling
Benchling is the AI platform for biotech R&D, helping scientists design experiments, capture structured data, and run AI agents and models in their workflows. Over 200,000 scientists trust Benchling, including teams at Sanofi, Moderna, and more than half of the world's top 50 biopharma companies.
Role Overview
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 on this team, you will be a technical leader responsible for designing and building critical systems for regulatory submissions and audits, enabling features that appear in FDA submissions and GxP-regulated workflows. This role sits at the intersection of platform and product work.
Responsibilities
- Drive design and development of innovative products and systems, serving as a technical expert.
- Architect and implement solutions for complex problems in audit coverage, scalable export systems, document lifecycle management, and regulatory compliance workflows.
- Lead large initiatives spanning multiple quarters, breaking down ambiguous requirements into technical plans.
- Design for scale and reliability, anticipating challenges across the enterprise customer base.
- Write well-documented, well-tested code following company best practices.
- Provide technical leadership through code reviews, architectural guidance, and mentorship.
- Partner with product management, design, and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Explore and evaluate opportunities to leverage AI and LLMs to improve compliance workflows and regulatory navigation.
- Establish and improve standards of code quality, style, and architecture.
- Own end-to-end delivery of critical features, from planning through deployment and monitoring.
Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience as a software engineer with 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 ability to build full-stack solutions.
- Proven ability to design scalable, robust software architectures.
- Track record of independently scoping and driving initiative-level work.
- 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.
Compensation & Benefits
Salary range: $225,378 – $304,924 USD per year. Offers equity.
Work Arrangement
Flexible hybrid work arrangement, with employees expected on-site 3 days per week (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday).
Application Instructions
Apply via the provided application link.
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