Full Stack Software Engineer, Benchling
Notebook Canvas
$157.3-212.8k
Plus equity
3 days a week in office
Cloud-based platform for biotech R&D
Job no longer available
Cloud-based platform for biotech R&D
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$157.3-212.8k
Plus equity
3 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To unlock the power of biotechnology and empower their global customers to get to milestones & market faster.
Role
Who you are
- You have 4+ years of experience in software engineering
- Build software with a product-first approach. You ship code quickly and care about the real world impact of your code
- Expertise developing user-facing experiences in a web application
- Have strong abilities in problem solving and iterating on feedback
- Enjoy ownership and building key pieces of product
- Are interested in learning more about life science (prior knowledge is not required; desire to learn is a must)
- Willing to work onsite in our SF office 3 days a week
What the job involves
- Own projects end-to-end, from initial design, to prototype, to large-scale rollout
- Design and implement Notebook functionality from backend models, API endpoints to front end UI for complex scientific workflows
- Design and implement rich frontend components and architecture. We build and operate one of the largest, richest React applications out there and power complex scientific analyses
- Work closely with product managers, designers, marketing, and sales to ensure the right context is being shared
- 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
Otta's take
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
As the pioneer of the R&D Cloud, Benchling offers a cloud-based informatics platform tailored for biotechnology. Its platform enables scientists across the globe to make breakthrough discoveries and bring next-gen biotechnology to market.
There’s a sincerity and consciousness to Benchling’s approach that stands out. This has led to the company being adopted by over 200,000 scientists from 1,000+ companies and 7,500 academic and research institutions globally (including 23andMe, Moderna, and the U.S. Department of Defense).
The rapidly advancing Biotechnology industry was at the forefront of the so-called “fourth industrial revolution”, with the industry driving $2 to $4 trillion per year of economic impact over the next 20 years.
Benchling has put itself in a position of immense value within the industry with its expanding offerings. Off the back of over $400 million in total funding, the company is seeing accelerated growth
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Nov 2021
$100m
SERIES F
Apr 2021
$200m
SERIES E
Total funding: $411.9m
Company benefits
- 4 months paid parental leave
- 401k plan
- Pre-tax commuter benefits
- Flexible paid time off
- Work from home opportunities
- 100% premiums covered for health, dental, & vision
- Fertility healthcare and family-forming benefits
Company values
- Constant Curiosity - Like the scientists we serve, we approach life with a sense of constant curiosity
- Scientist First - We’re relentlessly focused on taking a scientist-first approach
- Impact Driven - We commit our time, energy, and resources to efforts that will drive maximum impact
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
Founders
Sajith Wickramasekara
(CEO)Sajith studied at MIT before spending 2 years as a Research Assistant at Duke University Medical Centre and Liquidia Technologies. They used this biotechnology understanding to found Benchling in June 2012, serving as CEO since.
Ashu Singhal
(President)They previously co-founded Hotspots.io which was later acquired by Twitter in 2012. After this, became Staff Software Engineer at Twitter for 2 years, leaving to co-found Benchling.
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