Senior Back-end Engineer (Remote)

Summary:
Are you looking for a career in which you can make an impact? Join the award-winning IQVIA eCOA team on its journey to disrupt the healthcare industry and improve patients’ clinical research experience. Patients will always be the ultimate customer in healthcare, but they need to be heard. Our goal is to help ensure that each patient is at the center of care and give them a voice to share their story. IQVIA’s eCOA (electronic clinical outcomes assessment) Division has developed an award-winning platform that intelligently automates capturing patient's experiences through real-time, direct-from-patient data collection. This enables the client real-time access to the patient’s experience, which in-turn, improves the treatment and eventual outcome.
Job Description:
You will be part of a growing software engineering team located across the world, focused on building new and modern software that’s positioned to revolutionize the clinical trial space. In this remote role, you’ll be empowered and encouraged to think “outside the box” to develop innovative solutions to drive business and the industry forward. You are a self-motivated individual who can apply strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills to daily challenges. You’re ultimately a JavaScript/Typescript aficionado, but also enjoys wearing many different hats.
Position overview:
We’re seeing immense growth in the industry, and so our core focus is scaling our application with stable, distributed back-end services. Bring your talent and drive to our team of passionate, creative, and innovative thinkers, focused on developing a sophisticated product that uses modern JavaScript. We have the support and resources of a large company but operate with a start-up culture. You’ll thrive in a fast-paced and agile environment, during which you see real-time results.
Responsibilities:

• Work collaboratively and efficiently across functional teams in a fast-paced startup-like environment.

• High standard of engineering quality through code reviews and unit tests.

• Extend our platform to handle an expanding set of features.

• Design, extend, and implement APIs.

• Create engineering efficiencies through automation and development of tools.

• Regularly make specific determinations about system performance and respond with sense of urgency to review and fix bug reports.

• Define engineering processes for product launch and releases.

• Proactively work with Quality Assurance and DevOps to solve system problems.

• Review and refactor legacy code.

• Provide technical guidance and coaching to peers.

Skills:

• Expert in JavaScript/Typescript, Node, and Express.js

• Experience in working with Postgres, DynamoDB (Apache Pulsar, Kafka a plus)

• Experience with cloud-based infrastructure (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure)

• Familiar with system monitoring services (DataDog, Sentry.io, CloudWatch)

• Ability to work independently and remotely with minimal supervision

• Strong attention to detail

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IQVIA is a leading global provider of clinical research services, commercial insights and healthcare intelligence to the life sciences and healthcare industries. We create intelligent connections to accelerate the development and commercialization of innovative medical treatments to help improve patient outcomes and population health worldwide. Learn more at https://jobs.iqvia.com

IQVIA is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other status protected by applicable law. https://jobs.iqvia.com/eoe

The potential base pay range for this role, when annualized, is $108,800.00 - $181,300.00. The actual base pay offered may vary based on a number of factors including job-related qualifications such as knowledge, skills, education, and experience; location; and/or schedule (full or part-time). Dependent on the position offered, incentive plans, bonuses, and/or other forms of compensation may be offered, in addition to a range of health and welfare and/or other benefits.