Software Engineer, Full Stack (Enterprise Lifecycle)

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.

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

• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer, with demonstrated growth in scope and independence
• 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
• 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
• Experience 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