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

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.

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

Work Arrangement

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).

Interview Process Note

As part of our interview process, you'll complete a brief AI-focused exercise or discussion so we can understand how you think about and use AI to drive impact in your role.