Software Engineer, Full Stack (Enterprise Lifecycle)
173k – 235kSan Francisco, CAHybrid3+ YOE
Summary
Builds full-stack systems for enterprise lifecycle including audit, compliance, exports, and document management to support regulated biotech customers. Requires 3+ years experience in backend APIs with frontend familiarity, end-to-end project delivery, and interest in life sciences.
About the role
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and deliver features and systems that advance Benchling's product and business goals across areas such as audit coverage, export systems, document lifecycle management, and regulatory compliance workflows
- Own end-to-end delivery of significant projects — from planning and development through deployment, maintenance, and monitoring — across multi-sprint, multi-person initiatives
- Design technical solutions for open-ended problems, working independently on smaller projects and collaborating with senior engineers on larger efforts
- Write well-documented, well-tested code that follows company best practices, and execute refactors that improve the codebase
- Participate actively in code reviews, providing thoughtful and actionable feedback that raises the quality of team output
- Partner with product management, design, and cross-functional stakeholders to translate customer needs into technical solutions, clarifying requirements and surfacing tradeoffs
- Explore opportunities to leverage AI and LLMs to improve compliance workflows, audit reporting, and regulatory navigation for our customers
- Contribute to team discussions and process improvements, and help resolve communication gaps within and across teams
- Collaborate with other teams to ensure our horizontal platform systems integrate well and support product development across the organization
Qualifications
- 3+ years of experience as a software engineer, with demonstrated growth in scope and independence
- Experience delivering multi-sprint projects end-to-end, including planning, task breakdown, and tracking
- Strong experience building backend systems and APIs for cloud-based web applications
- Familiarity with frontend development and willingness to build full-stack solutions when needed
- Ability to design technical solutions that account for edge cases, performance, scalability, and maintainability
- Comfort working in ambiguous problem spaces where methods and outcomes involve tradeoffs
- Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to synthesize project status and share it with stakeholders
- A collaborative mindset — willingness to mentor junior engineers and help teammates be more productive
- Interest in learning about life sciences. Prior biotech knowledge not required, but enthusiasm to learn is essential
Nice-to-Have Qualifications
- Experience building software for highly regulated industries (pharmaceuticals, medical devices, aerospace, financial services)
- Familiarity with compliance requirements such as FDA 21 CFR Part 11, GxP, or similar regulatory frameworks
- Exposure to audit logging systems, audit trails, or regulatory reporting capabilities
- Interest in AI/LLM applications, particularly in domains requiring high accuracy and reliability
- Experience with document management systems, version control, or content lifecycle management
- Familiarity with data export systems or large-scale data processing
- Experience with Python and PostgreSQL
- Experience with React or similar JavaScript-based frontend frameworks
- Previous work in enterprise B2B SaaS
- Education or work experience in life sciences, biotechnology, or pharmaceutical sectors
Skills
PythonPostgreSQLReactJavaScriptAPIsbackend systemsaudit loggingdocument managementdata exportAI/LLMs
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