Backend Software Engineer, Benchling
Data Platform, Schemas
$134.4-181.8k
+ Equity
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
$134.4-181.8k
+ Equity
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
- Thrive in a collaborative and diverse environment involving different stakeholders and experts
- 2+ years of experience as a software engineer, ideally 1+ of those within a Platform team.
- Have strong abilities in problem solving and iterating on feedback
- Enjoy ownership and building key pieces of product and platform
- Proven track record of planning, leading and delivering multi-quarter, multi-person projects, all the while leading the project management and necessary stakeholder communications
- Eagerness to dive into deep technical complexity and “repair the plane while we fly it.”
- Have a keen interest in delving deeper into life science. While prior knowledge isn’t a pre-requisite, an enthusiasm to learn certainly is
What the job involves
- As an engineer on the Schemas team, you will own the evolution of these customizable schemas, ensure optimal handling of data “at rest”, allowing focussed attention to shaping the data within Schemas for high integrity and optimal performance of the datastore that backs all data records in the Benchling Data Platform
- Schemas is a key leverage-point for both our internal Application teams and external customers, simultaneously underpinning most of the company’s work but ripe for re-architecture
- As a leader on this team, you should be passionate about the team’s execution, balancing individual output alongside fostering a culture of accountability and execution excellence
- You will partner with teams across Platform and Applications to ensure we’re solving the right problems and making the right tradeoffs between leverage and time-to-value
- Re-architect the Schemas system so customers can iterate on their schemas at scale, reliably offering async data migrations over billions of records with zero-downtime while maintaining our data integrity guarantees. As customers’ science evolves, they need the ability to evolve their schema types accordingly and at any data scale
- Develop and build a robust versioning system for schemas, ensuring accurate representation and management of customer data models over time. This enables our customers to configure Benchling for their particular use-cases, making the scientist/operator experience feel tailored and seamless
- Design and build foundational schema type primitives – such as inheritance support, performant uniqueness constraints or filterable fields – so that customers can model their concepts in high fidelity
- Rethink how Application teams build on top of the Schemas platform, driving down the engineering effort required from multiple months to a few weeks. Given Benchling’s large and rapidly growing product surface area, Schemas is a unique leverage point for internal engineering velocity and interoperability
- Actively engage with product managers and designers to promote transparent communication and shared understanding, thereby playing a pivotal role in actively identifying opportunities for improvement and optimizing product requirements
- Lead team-wide or project-specific rituals, helping the team deliver on commitments and contributing to a culture of execution excellence
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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