Full Stack Software Engineer

Who you are

• You have 5+ years of experience in a fulltime software engineering role
• Build software with a product-first approach. You ship code quickly and care about the real world impact of your code
• Experience developing both user-facing & backend experiences in a web application
• Experience with React, or similar javascript-based frontend application frameworks
• Experience leading large, sophisticated, long-term initiatives, while also breaking down this work into smaller, iterative projects
• Enjoy a high-degree of ownership in key areas of the software product you’re building
• Are interested in learning more about life science (prior knowledge is not required; desire to learn is a must)

What the job involves

• Benchling is seeking a Software Engineer to join our Document Canvas team, one of three teams that own Benchling’s widely-used Notebook product. At Benchling, we’re on a mission to accelerate the pace of life sciences research
• To do that, we build a suite of tools that scientists use daily to solve humanity's most pressing problems
• To achieve our mission, the Document Canvas team is focused on delivering a powerful, flexible, and user-friendly digital lab notebook that enables scientists to plan, document, and share their research seamlessly
• As a member of this team, you'll play a key role in building intuitive interfaces, developing robust backend services, and ensuring our platform scales to meet the needs of scientists around the world. You'll collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to deliver a product that improves scientific workflows and empower groundbreaking discoveries
• Our team values technical excellence, a deep understanding of user needs, and a commitment to building products that make complex scientific work easier and more efficient. If you're excited about solving challenging technical problems that have a meaningful impact on global health and innovation, we’d love to hear from you
• Own large-scale projects end-to-end, from ideation with cross-functional partners, through to rollout to end-users
• Engineer across our stack, from designing and implementing backend models & APIs to crafting rich frontend components and architecture
• Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and other teams to build the best product possible for our users
• Create entirely net-new products, while also investing in taking existing products to feature completeness
• Be a core team member, mentoring engineers on the team, while also leading technical & architectural discussions among engineers inside & outside the team
• Dive into a mature codebase, help shape a north star vision for technical investments and build an incremental roadmap to drive towards it
• Help shape the way we work together, while also participating in technical & architectural discussions among engineers inside & outside the team

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity
• Robust healthcare benefits
• Family-forming benefits
• Four months of fully paid parental leave
• Retirement benefits