Software Engineer, Platform (Developer Experience)

About the role

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.

We’re building an AI scientist for our customers. We can’t do that if we haven’t built the muscle ourselves. AI fluency is the foundation we build on; it's core to how we work, and we're committed to helping every new hire integrate it into their day-to-day. 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. Feel free to reference any tools, platforms, or workflows you use today.

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.

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. As a member of the engineering team, you'll be an integral part of how we mature our tooling, best practices, engineering processes, and hiring.

QUALIFICATIONS

- You have 4+ years of experience in software engineering.