Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer - JavaScript & Node

Syneos Health® is a leading fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization built to accelerate customer success. We translate unique clinical, medical affairs and commercial insights into outcomes to address modern market realities.  

Every day we perform better because of how we work together, as one team, each the best at what we do. We bring a wide range of talented experts together across a wide range of business-critical services that support our business. Every role within Corporate is vital to furthering our vision of Shortening the Distance from Lab to Life®.

Discover what our 29,000 employees, across 110 countries already know.

WORK HERE MATTERS EVERYWHERE

Why Syneos Health

• We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program.
• We are committed to our Total Self culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Our Total Self culture is what unites us globally, and we are dedicated to taking care of our people. 
• We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because when we bring together diversity of thoughts, backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives – we’re able to create a place where everyone feels like they belong. 

Job Responsibilities

The Sr. Software Engineer will collaborate with the development team to advance our company mission and contribute to the core product experience. This role will work on our client-facing technology suite which increases efficiency by connecting patients, sites, and sponsors throughout the clinical trial lifecycle

• Gather technical project requirements and specifications from clients and internal stakeholders (technical and non-technical) during the project development lifecycle.
• Own all aspect of the application, including quality, performance testing, and production support.
• Translate business rules and stakeholder requirements into project specifications that leverage internal and external systems.
• Lead the design of data ingestion and transformation systems and processes.
• Support development team by developing technical and architectural plans, generating documentation, and assembling presentation material that define project technical approaches, constraints, and milestones.
• Engage directly with technical stakeholders to communicate project updates (via in-person demonstrations, virtual calls/emails) throughout the production lifecycle.
• Run all the scrums and tech sessions

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

• BA/BS Degree in Computer Science or related discipline or equivalent work experience.
• Professional experience in a development role
• Personal projects that show an aptitude for engineering and product sense
• Ability to work in areas outside of their usual comfort zone and love to learn new technologies
• Experience starting projects from scratch as well as jumping into an existing architecture
• Desire to keep up-to-date on the latest industry techniques and trends
• Ability to multitask and work in a cross-functional team environment
• Strong experience with JavaScript & Node.js (preferred)
• Full stack disposition (professional experience on backend strongly preferred)
• Strong understanding of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
• Proficient understanding of database architecture and performance
• Proficient understanding of asynchronous, object oriented, and functional programming design patterns
• Experience working with AWS (EC2, ECS, Lambda, SQS/Kinesis)
• Experience with other enterprise server-side languages a plus (e.g. Java, Python, Ruby, etc.)
• Experience with React.js and React Native a plus
• Experience developing and scaling REST APIs for various platforms
• Experience developing low latency, high availability applications

Get to know Syneos Health

Over the past 5 years, we have worked with 94% of all Novel FDA Approved Drugs, 95% of EMA Authorized Products and over 200 Studies across 73,000 Sites and 675,000+ Trial patients.

No matter what your role is, you’ll take the initiative and challenge the status quo with us in a highly competitive and ever-changing environment. Learn more about Syneos Health.
 

http://www.syneoshealth.com

Additional Information

Tasks, duties, and responsibilities as listed in this job description are not exhaustive.  The Company, at its sole discretion and with no prior notice, may assign other tasks, duties, and job responsibilities. Equivalent experience, skills, and/or education will also be considered so qualifications of incumbents may differ from those listed in the Job Description. The Company, at its sole discretion, will determine what constitutes as equivalent to the qualifications described above.   Further, nothing contained herein should be construed to create an employment contract.  Occasionally, required skills/experiences for jobs are expressed in brief terms. Any language contained herein is intended to fully comply with all obligations imposed by the legislation of each country in which it operates, including the implementation of the EU Equality Directive, in relation to the recruitment and employment of its employees.  The Company is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, including the provision of reasonable accommodations, when appropriate, to assist employees or applicants to perform the essential functions of the job.