Software Engineer (Full Stack, Enterprise Lifecycle)

• The Enterprise Lifecycle team is a newly formed engineering team dedicated to ensuring Benchling’s largest customers—internationally recognizable names developing some of the world’s most innovative treatments and cures—are successful in regulated environments
• Our mission is to help them prove their products are safe for human consumption and navigate complex regulatory processes with confidence and efficiency
• As a Software Engineer on this team, you will be a technical leader responsible for designing and building the critical systems that enterprise customers depend on for regulatory submissions and audits
• You will own horizontally impactful systems while directly enabling features that appear in FDA submissions and GxP-regulated workflows
• This role sits at the intersection of platform and product work, requiring both deep technical expertise and strong product sense
• Our team values technical excellence, a deep understanding of user needs, and a commitment to building products that make complex scientific work easier and more efficient
• If you’re excited about solving challenging technical problems that have a meaningful impact on global health and innovation, we’d love to hear from you
• Drive the design and development of innovative products and systems that advance Benchling’s product and business goals, serving as a technical expert within the team
• Independently architect and implement solutions to complex, open-ended problems in areas such as comprehensive audit coverage, scalable export systems, document lifecycle management, and regulatory compliance workflows
• Lead large, sophisticated initiatives spanning multiple quarters, breaking down ambiguous requirements into concrete technical plans and iterative delivery milestones
• Design for scale and reliability with the future in mind, anticipating technical challenges across our growing enterprise customer base
• Write exceptionally well-documented, well-tested code that follows company best practices and serves as an example for others
• Provide technical leadership through code reviews, architectural guidance, and mentorship of engineers across experience levels
• Partner closely with product management, design, and cross-functional stakeholders to translate customer needs into technical solutions
• Explore and evaluate opportunities to leverage AI and LLMs to improve compliance workflows, audit reporting, and regulatory navigation for our customers
• Establish and improve standards of code quality, style, and architecture at the team level
• Own end-to-end delivery of critical features, from planning and development through deployment, maintenance, and monitoring
• Collaborate with other teams to ensure our horizontal systems integrate seamlessly and enable product development across the organization

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity
• Robust healthcare benefits
• Family-forming benefits
• Four months of fully paid parental leave
• Retirement benefits

• Track record of independently scoping and driving initiative-level work with feature scope and impact across a whole product area or team
• Strong experience building backend systems and APIs for cloud-based web applications
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and develop other engineers, enabling them to be more productive and successful
• Solid understanding of frontend development and the ability to build full-stack solutions when needed
• Experience as a technical lead on significant projects involving multiple engineers across multiple quarters
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to produce clear technical designs and articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences
• Interest in learning about life sciences. Prior biotech knowledge not required, but enthusiasm to learn is essential
• 8+ years of experience as a software engineer, with demonstrated progression of increasing scope and impact
• Proven ability to design scalable, robust software architectures that align with business requirements and long-term maintainability