Engineering Leader, Notebook

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Recruit, develop, and lead a team of exceptional software engineers.
• Partner closely with product and design to define roadmap and long-term product strategy. In the near term, drive execution of foundational technical initiatives and API delivery that improve the performance, reliability, scalability, and extensibility of the team's platform, including identifying and prioritizing opportunities for AI-powered features as the platform matures.
• Hold an unreasonably high bar for product quality as the team executes its work.
• Partner closely with engineers on the team to ensure excellent technical decisions as you lay the foundations for new products and extend mature ones. Directly perform code reviews and engage with the team's codebase.
• Meet with customers to understand their science and what they need from Benchling, particularly around data entry workflows in research, development, and manufacturing contexts.
• Translate strategy into execution by developing and executing quarterly plans with clear metrics and targets.
• Contribute to engineering-wide organizational improvements as part of the management team.

QUALIFICATIONS

• 2+ years of experience as an engineering manager.
• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer, with experience as a technical lead on projects that involve multiple engineers across multiple quarters.
• Experience building cloud-based web applications, ideally on both the front- and back-end.
• Experience leading teams through technically complex, long-running platform or infrastructure projects — such as large-scale refactors, backend migrations, or re-architecting core systems — where correctness, performance, and scalability matter more than speed of feature delivery.
• Grown high-trajectory, early-to-mid-career engineers into leaders with company-wide impact.
• Experience (and enjoy!) working directly with customers to inform your team's roadmap.
• A track record of working with cross-functional partners in product, design, sales, and marketing.
• Comfort with and enthusiasm for hands-on technical leadership: you should be excited to write and review code, and view reviewing your engineers' code as an essential part of the job.
• Interest in and ability to develop AI-powered product features, including integrating LLMs and AI capabilities into scientific software workflows.
• A track record of working with cross-functional partners in product, design, sales, and marketing.
• Familiarity with software engineering management productivity tools (e.g., Jira or other bug database), as well as observability tools for logging, metrics, and alerting.
• Interest in / curiosity about biotech! Prior experience with biotech, pharmaceutical, or other life sciences business sectors or education is not required, but is absolutely a plus.

NICE-TO-HAVE

• Frontend development experience, especially with React and TypeScript.
• Python programming experience.
• Experience building both customer-facing features and developer platform / reusable component libraries.
• Experience designing and delivering customer-facing APIs, particularly in a product where the API must coexist with a rich UI.
• Experience with performance optimization, particularly moving computation from client to server and managing the performance implications of that transition.
• Experience in enterprise B2B SaaS, particularly in regulated industries.
• Experience solving challenging performance problems for large-scale web applications.