Engineering Leader

Role overview

As an Engineering Leader at Benchling (full remote), you will lead the Data Input team, building a platform and user experiences that help scientists and lab operators efficiently capture and use their data. You will set technical and product-quality expectations while partnering closely with product and design to define the roadmap and long-term product strategy.

Key missions

• Recruit, develop, and lead a team of software engineers, ensuring high standards of product quality.
• Partner with product and design to define the roadmap and long-term product strategy; drive execution of foundational technical initiatives.
• Engage with customers to understand their needs and translate strategy into execution via quarterly plans with clear metrics and targets.

Responsibilities / expectations

• Provide hands-on technical leadership: write and review code and treat engineering code reviews as essential.
• Lead technically complex, long-running platform and infrastructure efforts (e.g., refactors, backend migrations, re-architecting core systems) with an emphasis on correctness, performance, and scalability.
• Work cross-functionally with product, design, sales, and marketing.
• Coach and grow engineers, taking early-to-mid career talent to leadership with company-wide impact.
• Identify customer needs and incorporate them into roadmap planning.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager.
• 5+ years as a software engineer, including technical lead experience across multiple engineers over multiple quarters.
• Comfort with hands-on technical leadership (coding, reviewing) and experience leading complex refactors/migrations.
• Experience building cloud-based web applications, with frontend and backend exposure.
• Experience with cross-functional partners (product/design/sales/marketing).
• Direct experience working with customers to inform roadmaps.

Nice to have

• Strong Frontend experience with React and TypeScript.
• Python experience.
• Building customer-facing features plus developer platform / reusable component libraries.
• Designing and delivering customer-facing APIs, particularly alongside a rich UI.
• Experience with performance optimization, especially moving computation from client to server.
• Experience in enterprise B2B SaaS in regulated industries.
• Interest/capability to build AI-powered product features, including integrating LLMs into scientific workflows.
• Familiarity with engineering management and productivity tools (e.g., Jira) and observability (logging, metrics, alerting).
• Interest in biotech/life sciences (not required but a plus).

Location

• Full remote