Software Engineer, Backend (Schemas & Object Framework)

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

As a software engineer on the Schemas and Object Framework team you will design build and operate platform systems that are fundamental to how Benchling models complex science. Not only will your work enable Benchling to scale its product offerings and accelerate scientific discovery for our customers by providing a cohesive and extensible data modeling foundation but you will also have the opportunity to shape technical strategy and establish best practices for Benchling product and platform teams.

The richness and variety of our customers work means that Benchling cannot provide outofthebox support for all the concepts in biotech. So the Schemas system enables our internal application teams to introduce new schema types which are natively integrated with our platform. Our customers can then extend and customize these schema types to represent their unique science. As an engineer on the Schemas team you will own the evolution of these customizable schemas ensuring optimal handling of data at rest and shaping the data within Schemas to maintain data integrity and optimize the performance of the datastore that backs all data records in the Benchling Data Platform.

This team also owns the Object Framework which enables Benchlings internal platform to be consistent by default by providing both a source of truth for the shape of Benchling domain models and also internal APIs for accessing them. Team members regularly define best practices for other platform and product teams to ensure modeling consistency as well as define interfaces to adjacent systems that persist data and generate change events. As a technical leader in this domain you will play a key role in shaping the technical strategy and driving adoption across Benchling product and platform teams.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead complex highimpact projects from architectural design through to deployment and operation.
• Collaborate with application teams to design and implement robust domain models within the Object Framework.
• Work closely with product managers designers and other engineers across Platform and Applications teams to translate business needs into effective solutions.
• Provide mentorship to fellow engineers contribute to team growth and drive improvements in engineering processes and tools fostering a culture of excellence.
• Improve the maintainability consistency scalability and developer experience of highimpact internal data modeling APIs.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Collaborate effectively with diverse group of stakeholders and experts
• 8 years of experience as a software engineer ideally 3 of those within a Platform team.
• Strong problemsolving skills and ability to act on feedback
• Express high ownership of impactful products and platform systems
• Experience leading multiquarter projects including planning delivery project management and stakeholder communication.
• Enjoy tackling deep technical challenges
• Prior life science knowledge is not required but enthusiasm to learn is essential

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$177735 to $240465.

To help you determine which zone applies to your location please see thisresource. If you have questions regarding a specific locations zone designation please contact a recruiter for additional information.

• 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

Check out our engineering blog for some examples of past work throughout Benchling. Here are some other examples of recent and future projects for the Schemas and Object Framework team:

• Fieldsets: The team recently released Fieldsets which are a new Schemas feature that lets customers define a common set of structural metadata (e.g. prefixes constraints fields) that can be applied to one or more schemas not only saving them time but also increasing data integrity.
• Domain Graph Versioning: A key element of the Object Framework is the Domain Graph which is the source of truth for the domain model of Benchling. Another team is building a Change Data Capture (CDC) system that will represent changes with the Domain Graph representation of the data. To make that work we needed to let the CDC system subscribe to changes in the Domain Graph itself so it can update how to represent those models.
• Performance improvements: For other internal systems to use the Domain Graph as their source of truth for data they use a persistence agnostic internal API that we also own that we call Data Connectors. We shipped a project recently that finds seams between that API and other systems in Benchling and prevents overfetching by introducing new tooling that automatically translates queries between e.g. an internal GraphQL API and Data Connectors.

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