# Software Engineer, Applications (App Foundations) (High Seniority) at Benchling

- Company: Benchling
- What the company does: Backed by Y Combinator, a16z and ICONIQ.
- Company website: http://benchling.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $225K to $305K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-07-22
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/benchling/6beeaebc-fd49-47d7-a179-dd674bab58b7
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/benchling-software-engineer-applications-app-foundations-high-seniority/

## About the role

The App Foundations group — comprised of our Lab Notebook and Enterprise Lifecycle teams — builds the surfaces and systems at the heart of the Benchling experience. On one side, that's how scientists capture their work every day — the Notebook and the structured data-input tables where experimental data becomes clean, structured, and analyzable. On the other, it's the enterprise lifecycle capabilities that make that data trustworthy at scale: audit trails, review and approval, exports, and backups.

## What they're looking for

- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a demonstrated progression of increasing scope and impact
- Experience as a technical lead on significant projects involving multiple engineers across multiple quarters
- Proven ability to design scalable, robust architectures that align with business requirements and long-term maintainability, especially for horizontal systems that many teams build on
- Track record of independently scoping and driving initiative-level work whose impact spans multiple teams and shapes an entire product area or division
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills — able to produce clear technical designs and use influence rooted in technical expertise to align other engineers on an implementation strategy
- Demonstrated ability to mentor and develop other engineers, raising the team's bar in areas such as testing, performance, and maintainability

Tags: Engineering