Software Engineer, Extensibility Platform

Role Overview

As a software engineer on the Extensibility Platform team, you will design, build, and operate platform systems that are essential to our vision for an extensible, flexible, and customizable Benchling experience. Not only will your work enable Benchling to scale its product offerings and accelerate scientific discovery for our customers, but you will also have the opportunity to help shape technical strategy and establish best practices for Benchling product and platform teams.

Our Extensibility Platform helps bridge bespoke customer workflows by letting customers, partners, and third-party developers build custom offerings for Benchling in the form of Apps and Extensions that can be installed into a tenant and offer highly customizable in-product experiences. As an engineer on this team, you will own these products end-to-end, including domain modeling, the infrastructure for versioning and distributing these products across tenants, and the installation, configuration, and lifecycle machinery behind them.

The Extensibility Platform team also owns Benchling's event, webhook, and notification platforms, which fan out permission-filtered, real-time domain changes to customer systems and scientists across thousands of tenants. Additionally, our team owns the Benchling MCP and Canvas Core.

Responsibilities

• Lead high-impact projects from design through to deployment and operation.
• Work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers across Platform and Applications teams to translate business needs into effective solutions.
• Collaborate with technical leaders and teammates to contribute to team growth, drive improvements in engineering processes and tools, and foster a culture of excellence.
• Improve the maintainability, consistency, scalability, and developer experience of Extensibility Platform’s public APIs.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in a full-time software engineering role. Ideally in SaaS with platform development experience.
• Strong problem-solving skills with a proven ability to iterate on feedback and deliver high-impact solutions.
• Proficiency in backend development, API design, and data management.
• Experience in Web Application development is highly desirable.
• Experience leading & delivering projects from start to finish, independently or as a part of a larger team.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and experience working in a collaborative, cross-functional environment.
• Willing to work out of our SF office 3 days a week (Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday).
• Enthusiasm for diving into complex technical challenges and a keen interest in the life sciences domain, with a willingness to learn and adapt.

Interview Process

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