Software Engineer, Platform (Developer Experience)

Role Overview

Developer Experience is a crucial function that empowers our engineers to excel in their craft. As a technical leader in the Platform pillar, you’ll work on the Developer Productivity team to create tools and frameworks that enhance developer experience and drive AI enablement and adoption across the Build org. Your success will enable our engineering teams to efficiently deliver high quality products. By understanding the unique challenges developers face and crafting solutions to remove engineering friction, you'll play a key role in driving innovation and fulfilling Benchling’s mission.

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.

Responsibilities

• Enhance the BFF layer between our client and backend APIs, allowing us to ship changes frequently with high confidence.
• Build and implement tooling for efficient, frictionless development, testing, and packaging for production release.
• Iterate on developer experience improvements using qualitative and quantitative feedback.
• Implement feedback loops that integrate quality into software development workflows.
• Champion effective engineering and operational patterns across the Engineering org.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to address challenges in engineering workflows that impact developer happiness and productivity.
• Work closely with product managers, designers, and peers in engineering to make Benchling a delightful place to develop software.
• Help rapidly scale our product and team, maturing tooling, best practices, engineering processes, and hiring.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in software engineering.
• Build tools and software with a product-first approach; ship code quickly and care about real-world impact.
• Expertise with at least one web framework, preferably Node or Python.
• Strong abilities in problem solving and iterating on feedback.
• Enjoy ownership and building key pieces of product.
• Empathy for customers and curiosity about their challenges.
• Experience with GraphQL preferred.
• Interest in learning more about life science (prior knowledge is not required; desire to learn is a must).
• Clear and effective communicator, especially in cross-functional settings.

How We Work

• Hybrid work arrangement requiring in-office attendance 3 days per week (Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday).