Backend Software Engineer, Benchling
Auth Platform
$157.3-212.8k
+ 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
$157.3-212.8k
+ 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
- Have 3-7 years of experience in software engineering, ideally in a backend platform team. Experience with identity or access control platforms is a nice-to-have but not a must!
- Build software with a product-first approach. You ship code quickly and care about the real world impact of your code
- Have strong abilities in problem solving and iterating on feedback
- Enjoy ownership and building key pieces of product and platform
- Have a keen interest in delving deeper into building Enterprise SaaS in the life sciences industry. While prior knowledge isn’t a prerequisite, an enthusiasm to learn certainly is!
- All new hires in the United States are required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and to provide proof of vaccination prior to their first day of employment
What the job involves
- As a Software Engineer working on the Auth Platform team, you’ll design and build systems to enable seamless and secure access to Benchling and other applications built on top of our platform
- Our platform is critical to protecting our customers’ most precious intellectual property, while facilitating collaboration that significantly accelerates breakthrough discoveries
- Working on a wide range of projects, you'll collaborate with teams across the company to architect and build foundational primitives, tools, and core services for a robust and extensible auth platform that serves developers and customer admins
- Our authentication and authorization systems are becoming increasingly important as we expand our footprint with larger enterprise customers, move towards a services architecture, and build a multi-application ecosystem
- This role has an opportunity to shape Benchling’s service and application architecture for years to come, while unblocking continuous growth in the business and new product capabilities
- Own projects end-to-end, from initial design, to prototype, to large-scale rollout
- Design and architect resilient APIs, user interfaces, services, and frameworks of our auth platform
- Work hand-in-hand with product managers, designers, and fellow engineers to understand needs and shape them into scalable software solutions
- Ensure high quality and performance of our systems through comprehensive testing, monitoring, and optimization
- Mentor other engineers and be a major multiplier across the team
- Drive the evolution of our product and team. As a member of the engineering team, you will be an integral part of how we mature our tooling, 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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