Software Engineer, Full Stack (Enterprise Lifecycle) (High Seniority)

Benchling; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangement

In-office collaboration

Job summary

A leading biotech software company in San Francisco is hiring a Software Engineer to lead the design and development of regulatory compliance systems. You will work in a hybrid environment, collaborating with various teams to deliver impactful solutions. The ideal candidate has over 8 years of experience, a deep understanding of backend development, and a passion for mentoring others. This role is crucial for ensuring success in regulated environments, making it essential for those eager to influence global health innovation.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience as a software engineer with a tech lead background.
• Strong knowledge in building cloud-based web applications.
• Proven ability to mentor and enable engineers.

Responsibilities

• Drive design and development of innovative products and systems.
• Independently architect and implement solutions to complex problems.
• Lead large initiatives and translate customer needs into technical solutions.

Skills

Backend systems development

API development

Technical leadership

Full-stack development

Scalable software architecture

Mentorship

Communication

Job description

We are rebuilding biotech for the AI era.

When a breakthrough is delayed, the world waits. Getting a molecule from discovery to patients, or a crop from lab to field, involves thousands of slow, manual, disconnected steps. AI has the potential to change this, compressing decades of R&D work into years. But that only happens when clean, structured scientific data and AI are built into how science gets done.

Benchling is the AI platform for biotech R&D. Scientists use Benchling to design experiments, capture structured data, and run AI agents and models directly in their workflows. Over 200,000 scientists around the world trust Benchling to power their most important work, from academic labs to Sanofi, Moderna, and more than half of the world's top 50 biopharma.

ROLE OVERVIEW

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.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• 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

QUALIFICATIONS

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

HOW WE WORK

We offer a flexible hybrid work arrangement that prioritizes in‑office collaboration. Employees are expected to be on‑site 3 days per week (Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday).

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Benchling welcomes everyone.

We believe diversity enriches our team so we hire people with a wide range of identities, backgrounds, and experiences.

We are an equal opportunity employer. That means we don’t discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.