Senior Backend Engineer

Our HeathTech client is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer.

The successful candidate will work 100% remotely, from anywhere worldwide.

About my client:

They envision a world where groundbreaking medical therapies are judged using all available evidence and the best possible software, where the data and science are transparent to companies and regulators alike to make the best possible decisions faster and with greater accuracy and confidence. They’re developing innovations for clinical research and public health authorities. While initiatives exist that have brought standardization for clinical trial data structure, lengthy analysis and submission cycles remain, while increasing trial complexity and numbers present substantial challenges in decision-making, ultimately slowing the speed of medical progress. The products they build empower the pharmaceutical sector and regulators to analyze and perform quality control studies faster, with fewer resources, and at lower cost, increasing the rate at which innovation enters the market to provide improved and safer therapies for devastating diseases.

Culture:

My client’s mission is to build the future of healthcare. To help them succeed, they’re creating a unique employee culture. They’re fanatically customer-obsessed, crafting world-class products that customers love with every interaction. They take extreme ownership and accountability of their work, seeing whatever they do through to completion. They communicate candidly and directly with each other, even when it's uncomfortable. They’re innately curious, open to alternative perspectives and invest passionately in their own continuous growth.

Role Description As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will join a world-class engineering team in building the foundation for the companies Platform. You will work on parsers and compilers for programming languages (SAS, R, and python) used by statistical programmers to analyse clinical trials. You will transform the results into graphs and other advanced data structures based on which we build the Platform products. You will be expected to lead the analysis, design, building and deployment of the entire analytics and backend stack. As part of our core team, you will join us in designing, prioritising, building and testing new functionality, troubleshooting customer issues, finding root causes, and deploying required fixes to ensure maximal user impact and performance.

We run code analysis pipelines based on Antlr4 and Java. Our application stack is currently based on Next.js and deployed via Docker/Kubernetes in the cloud. Git is where our code lives, and GitHub Actions is how it gets out into the world. Our tooling automatically extracts full dataset and column-level data lineages and dependencies from existing clinical trials to enable validation, understanding, modification, communication, as well as trial code and data reuse. This means clinical trials are analysed and validated faster, better, and at lower costs to the benefit of all of humanity.

Requirements:

• Experience with and strong interest in programming languages, parsing algorithms, interpreters, and compilers
• Extensive experience in Java and at least one other programming language
• Experience with and clear understanding of graph theory and algorithm implementation
• Experience with and passion for complex root cause analyses to find and resolve bugs
• Experience identifying and resolving performance and scalability issues
• Experience in unit and integration testing, build and release management (CI/CD, GitHub Actions or similar)
• We and mission mindset
• Iteration mindset
• Strong focus on building and working as a team
• Strong communication skills
• ‘If it's not code and documented, it doesn't exist' mindset

Bonus points:

• Experience with compilers or interpreters
• Experience with Antlr4 or a similar parsing framework

Benefits:

• What you build impacts the lives of people around the world
• Highly collaborative, ambitious and world-class team
• Employee Stock Options Plan
• All remote, asynchronous work environment
• Additional benefits depending on country of residence