Software Engineer (Platform (Developer Experience))

• As a technical leader in the Platform pillar, you’ll work closely with the Developer Productivity and Release Engineering teams to create tools and frameworks that enhance developer experience, with a focus on the Path to Production
• Your success will enable our engineering teams to efficiently deliver high quality products
• By understanding the unique challenges developers face and crafting solutions to streamline their workflows, you’ll play a key role in driving innovation and fulfilling Benchling’s mission
• Build and implement tooling for efficient, frictionless development, testing, and packaging for production release
• Lead the design and development of release tooling that enables code changes to reach production within 10 minutes
• Iterate on developer experience improvements using qualitative and quantitative feedback
• Implement feedback loops that integrate quality into software development workflows
• Champion effective engineering and operational patterns across the Engineering org
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to address challenges in engineering workflows that impact developer happiness and productivity
• Work closely with product managers, designers, and peers in engineering to make Benchling a delightful place to develop software
• Help rapidly scale our product and team. As a member of the engineering team, you’ll be an integral part of how we mature our tooling, best practices, engineering processes, and hiring

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity
• Robust healthcare benefits
• Family-forming benefits
• Four months of fully paid parental leave
• Retirement benefits- Developer Experience is a crucial function that empowers our engineers to excel in their craft
• Are interested in learning more about life science (prior knowledge is not required; desire to learn is a must)
• Build tools and software with a product-first approach. You ship code quickly and care about the real world impact of your code
• Enjoy ownership and building key pieces of product
• Have strong abilities in problem solving and iterating on feedback
• Have empathy for your customers and curiosity about their challenges
• Clear and effective communicator, especially in cross-functional settings
• You have 4+ years of experience in software engineering
• Expertise with at least one web framework, preferably node or python