### **ROLE OVERVIEW**
Benchling strives to be an end-to-end solution for our customers. To do that,
Benchling needs to be accessible to a scientist regardless of where they are
or what they’re doing. The work scientists do is not constrained to a desk.
They’re physically walking to freezers or buildings to pick up biological
material or walking through a lab, a greenhouse, or a field recording
observations. Work like this isn’t well suited to desktops or laptops on a
cart. We want to give scientists the ability to leverage Benchling in the palm
of their hands, and to do that we need your help to build a native mobile
application that helps scientists perform their work efficiently and
comfortably.
As a Mobile Software Engineer, you'll be responsible for building best in
class mobile platform & infrastructure from the ground up at Benchling. You
will be working on designing and developing mobile apps while integrating with
the rest of the Benchling platform & back-end services solving important
enterprise customer R&D needs in various life sciences verticals. We are
looking for strong mobile engineers with experience working on iOS & Android
platforms using React Native as part of building a new team.
### **RESPONSIBILITIES**
* Design a new mobile platform architecture from the ground up that is modular, scalable and extensible
* Collaborate with enterprise customers on mobile-first use cases while integrating with the rest of Benchling platform and back-end services
* Define and build a test framework to validate the mobile functionality
* Define and build the mobile application release framework
* Define, measure, analyze and build the framework for mobile KPIs
* Collaborate with technical peers, product, design, and other cross-functional teams
### **QUALIFICATIONS**
* Have 3+ years of experience as a software engineer building mobile applications published to the app store (iOS or Android)
* Have experience working with React Native in production environment
* Have experience with Java, Kotlin, Swift, Objective-C, React Native, or other mobile frameworks
* Have experience delivering mobile apps through the full software development lifecycle from working with product/design, evaluating technical requirements to delivery and testing
* Familiarity with Detox as a testing framework is a plus.
* Feels comfortable in working across the stack with from Mobile to Backend (preferably python)
* Have cloud-based development experience with AWS or equivalent
### SALARY RANGE
Benchling takes a market-based approach to pay. The candidate's starting pay
will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications,
interview performance, and work location. For this role the base salary range
is:
ZONE 1: $157,250 - $212,750
ZONE 2: $146,285 - $197,915
To help you determine which zone applies to your location, please see this
[resource](https://assets.ctfassets.net/kzeezny59h5p/4smdkZsfYb37tKIm6mCU5H/1659bfd05b820e0ae7d2443c4beb4d34/Benchling-
US-Salary-Zones.pdf). If you have questions regarding a specific location's
zone designation, please contact a recruiter for additional information.
Total Compensation includes the following:
* Competitive salary and equity
* 100% premiums covered for health, dental, and vision for employees
* Fertility healthcare and family-forming benefits
* Four months of fully paid parental leave
* 401(k) + Employer Match
* Commuter benefits
* Home office stipend
* Mental health benefits + Wellness stipend
* Learning and development stipend
* Generous and flexible vacation
* Company-wide Summer & Winter holiday shutdown
* Sabbaticals for 5-year and 10-year anniversaries
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Benchling focuses on Biotechnology, Life Sciences, Enterprise Software,
Healthcare, and Synthetic Biology. Their company has offices in San Francisco
and Boston. They have a large team that's between 201-500 employees. To date,
Benchling has raised $112.8M of funding; their latest round was closed on
October 2021 at a valuation of $6.1B.
You can view their website at <http://www.benchling.com> or find them on
[Twitter](http://twitter.com/benchling),
[Facebook](http://www.facebook.com/benchling), and
[LinkedIn](http://www.linkedin.com/company/3769390).