Senior Fullstack Software Engineer (Focus on Frontend) - Evinova

Job Title: Senior Fullstack Software Engineer (Focus on Frontend)
Location: Gaithersburg, MD

At AstraZeneca, we pride ourselves on crafting a collaborative culture that champions knowledge-sharing, ambitious thinking and innovation – ultimately providing employees with the opportunity to work across teams, functions and even the globe. 

Recognizing the importance of individualized flexibility, our ways of working allow employees to balance personal and work commitments while ensuring we continue to create a strong culture of collaboration and teamwork by engaging face-to-face in our offices 3 days a week. Our head is purposely designed with collaboration in mind, providing space where teams can come together to strategize, brainstorm and connect on key projects. 

Are you ready to be part of the future of healthcare? Can you think big, be bold, and harness the power of digital and AI to tackle longstanding life sciences challenges?  Then Evinova, a global health tech business might be for you!  

Transform patients’ lives through technology, data, and innovative ways of working. You’re disruptive, decisive, and transformative. Someone excited to use technology to improve patients’ health. We’re building a new Health-tech business – Evinova, a fully-owned subsidiary of AstraZeneca Group.

Evinova delivers market-leading digital health solutions that are science-based, evidence-led, and human experience-driven. Thoughtful risks and quick decisions come together to accelerate innovation across the life sciences sector. Be part of a diverse team that pushes the boundaries of science by digitally empowering a deeper understanding of the patients we’re helping. Launch pioneering digital solutions that improve the patients’ experience and deliver better health outcomes. Together, we have the opportunity to combine deep scientific expertise with digital and artificial intelligence to serve the wider healthcare community and create new standards across the sector. 

Introduction to Role:

At Evinova, we’re revolutionizing clinical trials by developing cutting-edge digital solutions that connect patients, healthcare professionals, and regulators. As part of the AstraZeneca Group, our mission is to simplify participation in clinical trials and improve health outcomes through innovative technology. We believe in creating meaningful software that empowers individuals and transforms lives. If you’re passionate about building scalable, high-quality backend systems and working in a collaborative environment, we’d love for you to join our team.

As a Software Engineer within a full-stack team, you’ll be an essential part of a cross-functional team, working with a focus on frontend UI development that provides the best experience for patients and healthcare professionals alike, and you’ll be required, when relevant, to provide full stack expertise for backend development as well. You’ll collaborate with product owners, UI designers and backend developers to efficiently create a robust UI experience and to support a product that must adhere to regulations during the development process to allow usage of the product as part of clinical trials.

Accountabilities:

• Building and maintaining functionality for our web, as well as mobile, applications.
• Making sure the design and implementation are robust, responsive and providing a high performance experience of the user interface, while contributing to the system’s architecture.
• Working with our DevOps and Platform teams to ensure an easy deployment of new UI features.
• Collaborating with other engineers, product owners, and stakeholders to refine features and ensure the requirements are delivered as requested.
• Writing high-quality, clean, maintainable, and testable code, with a strong focus on a test automation-first attitude.
• Solving, diagnosing, and resolving bugs and performance issues, and analyzing them to improve the troubleshooting process.
• Participating in Agile ceremonies, such as daily stand-ups and sprint planning.

Essential Skills/Experience:

• 6+ years of professional experience in software development.
• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field or equivalent experience.
• Proficiency with frontend coding languages such as typescript and/or React/React Native.
• Proficiency with HTTP, HTML, CSS, REST APIs and JSON structure, openAPI spec.
•  Proficiency with at least one backend coding language such as Java, node.js, etc. including building RESTful APIs and microservices.
• Experience with unit tests, and BDD testing framework like Cucumber.
• AWS tooling.
• Experience with CI/CD tools, such as Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.
• Familiarity with containerizat