Software Engineer Molecular Biology

Biotechnology is rewriting life as we know it from the medicines we take to the crops we grow the materials we wear and the household goods that we rely on every day. But moving at the new speed of science requires better technology.

Benchlings mission is to unlock the power of biotechnology. The worlds most innovative biotech companies use Benchlings R&D Cloud to power the development of breakthrough products and accelerate time to milestone and market.

Come help us bring modern software to modern science.

ROLE OVERVIEW

Benchling builds modern software for research and development across life sciences and biotechnology. Our tools help scientists work more efficiently as they explore the mechanisms of biology and chemistry driving innovation across health agriculture drug discovery and more. The Molecular Biology team focuses on building powerful intuitive features that support a wide range of scientific workflowsfrom designing DNA constructs to analyzing protein sequences performing gene editing experiments and streamlining complex experimental data management.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Own endtoend project development: Take ownership of projects from understanding product requirements and designs to planning implementing testing and deploying solutions. You will handle the full lifecycle of features from initial concept to final delivery.
• Collaborate with product managers and designers: Work closely with crossfunctional teams to turn product requirements into actionable tech plans. Provide technical insights and feedback balancing product goals with technical feasibility.
• Write clean maintainable code: Contribute to both frontend (React) and backend (Python) development ensuring highquality scalable code that adheres to best practices and solid engineering principles.
• Refactor and manage technical debt: Take responsibility for improving and cleaning up existing code while building new features. Identify areas for technical improvement ensuring longterm code maintainability and product scalability.
• Design and implement robust testing and metrics: Write comprehensive tests for new and existing features ensuring software reliability. Implement metrics to track and measure the performance and success of features postlaunch.
• Collaboration with Other Engineers Its important to emphasize the ability to work effectively within a team of engineers especially in crossfunctional settings. This includes code reviews collaboration on architecture decisions and pairing with colleagues to solve problems.
• Ownership and Accountability While youve mentioned taking ownership of the projects there could be more about being able to selfmanage prioritize tasks and drive projects forward without heavy supervision.
• Scalability and Performance Optimization Although you mentioned technical debt a more explicit mention of experience in building scalable systems and optimizing performance could be valuable.
• Adaptability and Openness to New Challenges Especially in a fastpaced evolving field like life sciences the ability to pivot handle ambiguity and quickly learn new technologies or domains could be important.

Crossfunctional Communication While collaboration with product and design is covered it could be good to add how important clear communication across teams is (for instance working with data scientists biologists etc. depending on the team setup).

QUALIFICATIONS

• 3 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Proven ability to take product requirements and transform them into actionable technical plans and highquality code.
• Solid understanding of software engineering best practices including writing clean maintainable code testing version control and working within Agile workflows.
• Strong problemsolving skills with the ability to iteratively improve solutions based on feedback and realworld performance.
• Experience collaborating with other engineers in a team setting. Ability to provide constructive feedback perform code reviews and work together on solving complex engineering problems.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with crossfunctional teams (Product Design Data Science etc..
• A passion for learning and growth especially in the life sciences or biotechnology space (no prior knowledge required just a willingness to learn and adapt).

HOW WE WORK

Flexible Hybrid Work: We offer a flexible hybrid work arrangement that prioritizes inoffice collaboration. Employees are expected to be onsite 3 days per week.

SALARY RANGE

Benchling takes a marketbased approach to pay. The candidates starting pay will be determined based on jobrelated skills experience qualifications interview performance and work location. For this role the base salary range is$165113 to $223388.

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• Competitive total rewards package
• Broad range of medical dental and vision plans for employees and their dependents
• Fertility healthcare and familyforming benefits
• Four months of fully paid parental leave
• 401(k) Employer Match
• Commuter benefits for inoffice 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
• Companywide Winter holiday shutdown
• Sabbaticals for 5year and 10year anniversaries

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