Location : United States
Time-zone expectation : South San Francisco/PST
Position Overview:
Zifo is searching for a technical lead for angular & python product engineering. This role will serve as a hands-on technical leader for a cross-functional product engineering pod. They will own technical delivery across Angular, Python APIs and cloud-native services; translate product and architecture direction into maintainable software; guide engineers while remaining directly involved in design, critical implementation, code review, testing and production troubleshooting.
Key responsibilities:
- Hands-on pod leadership: Lead day-to-day technical delivery and remain active in solution design, complex implementation, code reviews, debugging, release readiness and production support
- Technical translation: Convert product requirements and architecture direction into bounded designs, service contracts, development tasks and testable vertical slices; identify dependencies and risks early
- Engineering leadership: Set practical standards for component and service boundaries, security, performance, observability, testing and maintainability; mentor engineers, provide actionable feedback and drive technical decisions
- Product delivery ownership: Work closely with Product, BA, QA and DevSecOps, demonstrate working results early, manage technical debt and delivery risk, and support reliable PST overlap with distributed teams
Requirements
Key Technical Expectations
- Angular: Strong recent hands-on Angular 17+ and TypeScript, with readiness to work in Angular 19.x. Required depth includes standalone components, RxJS/signals, state/change detection, typed Reactive Forms with conditional and asynchronous validation, Material/CDK, reusable components, accessibility, performance and frontend testing. React-only or AngularJS-only experience is insufficient
- Real-time and collaborative UI: WebSockets, REST-backed durable changes, optimistic concurrency/version checks, reconnect and stale-state recovery, conflict presentation, notifications and safe undo behaviour for multi-user workflows
- Python services and APIs: Strong production experience with Python and FastAPI or a comparable framework, including Pydantic-style contracts, SQLAlchemy/ORM, REST design, authentication and validation. Must understand asynchronous execution, long-running jobs, progress events, retries, idempotency, cancellation and failure recovery
- Data, cloud and operations: Relational data modelling and SQL/PostgreSQL, versioning and audit patterns, AWS, containers/EKS or Kubernetes, S3, CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code. Able to troubleshoot across frontend, API, data and deployment layers
- Engineering quality: Unit, integration, contract and end-to-end tests; code review and safe refactoring; SonarQube/static-analysis quality gates; secure dependency management; application logs, metrics and traces
Domain Experience
- Life sciences or clinical technology: Clinical-development, clinical-trial, protocol-authoring, protocol-digitization or other regulated scientific product experience is advantageous but not mandatory
- Study-design concepts and standards: Exposure to objectives/endpoints, arms and cohorts, eligibility criteria, Schedule of Activities, study schemas, amendments, CDISC, USDM, CDASH or ODM is preferred
- Regulated delivery: Awareness of GxP/CSV, ALCOA+, audit trails, electronic records, requirements/test traceability and validated-state change control is beneficial
Benefits
About Zifo:
CURIOSITY DRIVEN, SCIENCE FOCUSED, EMPLOYEE BUILT. Our culture is unlike any other, one where we debate, challenge ourselves, and interact with all alike. We are a curious bunch, characterized by our passion to learn and spirit of teamwork. Zifo is a global R&D solutions provider focused on the industries of Pharma, Biotech, Manufacturing QC, Medical Devices, specialty chemicals and other research-based organizations. Our team’s knowledge of science and expertise in technology help Zifo better serve our customers around the globe, including 7 of the Top 10 Biopharma companies.
We look for Science – Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical Technology, Biomedical Engineering, Microbiology etc. We possess scientific and technical knowledge and bear professional and personal goals. While we have a “no doors” policy to promote free access within, we do have a tough door to walk in. We search with a two-point agenda – technical competency and cultural adaptability.
We offer a competitive compensation package including accrued vacation, medical, dental, vision, 401k with company matching, life insurance, and flexible spending accounts.
If you share these sentiments and are prepared for the atypical, then Zifo is your calling!
Zifo is an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Skills Required
- Strong recent hands-on experience with Angular 17+ and TypeScript, including standalone components, RxJS or signals, state management, typed Reactive Forms, Material/CDK, accessibility, performance, and frontend testing.
- React-only or AngularJS-only experience is insufficient.
- Experience implementing real-time collaborative user interfaces using WebSockets, REST, optimistic concurrency, reconnect handling, stale-state recovery, conflict presentation, notifications, and undo behavior.
- Production experience with Python and FastAPI or a comparable framework, including Pydantic-style contracts, SQLAlchemy or ORM, REST design, authentication, validation, asynchronous execution, long-running jobs, retries, idempotency, cancellation, and failure recovery.
- Experience with relational data modeling, SQL/PostgreSQL, versioning and audit patterns, AWS, containers, EKS or Kubernetes, S3, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code.
- Ability to troubleshoot across frontend, API, data, and deployment layers.
- Experience with unit, integration, contract, and end-to-end testing; code review; safe refactoring; SonarQube or static-analysis quality gates; secure dependency management; and application logs, metrics, and traces.
- Life sciences or clinical technology experience, including clinical development, clinical trials, protocol authoring, or protocol digitization.
- Exposure to study-design concepts and standards including objectives/endpoints, arms and cohorts, eligibility criteria, Schedule of Activities, study schemas, amendments, CDISC, USDM, CDASH, or ODM.
- Awareness of GxP/CSV, ALCOA+, audit trails, electronic records, requirements/test traceability, and validated-state change control.
What We Do
Did you know that the saying ‘Curiosity killed the cat’ actually ends with ‘but satisfaction brought it back’? We suspect that the shortened version is the doing of grown-ups suppressing the innately curious child inside them! For us at Zifo, we take curiosity as unbounded - it is a celebrated value. Curiosity does wonderful things - drive exploration, accelerate learning, inspire better solutions, lead to innovation, drive conversations. We believe that the scientific community’s most important duty to the world is to stay curious. And this is what we do at Zifo. We have a global presence of over 1000 employees spread across our offices in US, UK, France, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, China, Canada, Singapore & India. We offer services in areas such as Scientific Informatics, Lab Informatics, Clinical Biometrics, Regulatory Compliance including Computer System Validation and Genome Informatics across 20+ countries. Our customers include 7 of the Top 10 global Bio-pharma companies. We are listed as 'Technology Fast 50' by Deloitte for 9 consecutive years (2012-2020) and as one of the 'Best Places to Work' for the past five years. We strive to stay curious, day in and day out. Asking the right questions, and listening to provide the right solutions. Write to us at [email protected].
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