Software Engineer (Extensibility Platform)

• As a software engineer on the Extensibility Platform team, you will design, build, and operate platform systems that are essential to our vision for an extensible, flexible, and customizable Benchling experience
• Not only will your work enable Benchling to scale its product offerings and accelerate scientific discovery for our customers, but you will also have the opportunity to help shape technical strategy and establish best practices for Benchling product and platform teams
• The richness and variety of our customers’ work means Benchling cannot anticipate every bespoke workflow or integration that a scientific organization might need
• Our Extensibility Platform helps bridge that gap by letting customers, partners, and third-party developers build custom offerings for Benchling in the form of Apps and Extensions that can be installed into a tenant and offer highly customizable in-product experiences
• As an engineer on this team, you will own these products end-to-end, including domain modeling, the infrastructure for versioning and distributing these products across tenants, and the installation, configuration, and lifecycle machinery behind them
• The Extensibility Platform team also owns Benchling’s event, webhook, and notification platforms, which fan out permission-filtered, real-time domain changes to customer systems and scientists across thousands of tenants
• Additionally, our team owns the Benchling MCP, which gives our customers’ AI agents a governed way to interact with Benchling data, and Canvas Core, which allows users to render powerful, interactive, custom UI natively inside Benchling with the help of the AI Assistant
• Together, all of these products are fundamental for Benchling’s vibe-coding platform where scientists are empowered to build out the bespoke experiences that they need on Benchling, without needing to be a seasoned software developer
• Lead high-impact projects from design through to deployment and operation
• Work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers across Platform and Applications teams to translate business needs into effective solutions
• Collaborate with technical leaders and teammates to contribute to team growth, drive improvements in engineering processes and tools, and foster a culture of excellence
• Improve the maintainability, consistency, scalability, and developer experience of Extensibility Platform’s public APIs

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity
• Robust healthcare benefits
• Family-forming benefits
• Four months of fully paid parental leave
• Retirement benefits- Enthusiasm for diving into complex technical challenges and a keen interest in the life sciences domain, with a willingness to learn and adapt
• Experience leading & delivering projects from start to finish, independently or as a part of a larger team
• You have 2+ years of experience in a fulltime software engineering role. Ideally in SaaS with platform development experience
• Proficiency in backend development, API design, data management. Experience in Web Application development is highly desirable
• Strong problem-solving skills with a proven ability to iterate on feedback and deliver high-impact solutions
• Excellent interpersonal skills and experience working in a collaborative, cross-functional environment. Willing to work out of our SF office 3 days a week