Applications Engineer

Company: Medidata Solutions
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: January 16, 2022

Job Description:

Medidata: Conquering Diseases Together

Medidata is leading the digital transformation of life sciences, creating hope for millions of patients. Medidata helps generate the evidence and insights to help pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device and diagnostics companies, and academic researchers accelerate value, minimize risk, and optimize outcomes. More than one million registered users across 1,400 customers and partners access the world's most-used platform for clinical development, commercial, and real-world data. Medidata, a Dassault Syst--mes company, is headquartered in New York City and has offices around the world to meet the needs of its customers. Discover more at www.medidata.com.

Your Mission

Medidata's Patient Cloud teams are singularly focused on empowering and engaging patients throughout the clinical trial lifecycle. Designed by patients for patients, our technology and expertise enables the next generation of decentralized trials to create a better overall study experience.

About

You are an energetic, motivated, hands-on developer, passionate about building scalable solutions and will individually contribute in the following ways

As an Applications Engineer, you are an integral part of our team building cloud-native, web applications and services. You will design, implement, deploy and support our Patient Cloud product suite in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

• Independently implement solutions for features within your area of expertise
• Write and review PRs with a focus on ensuring best practices and improving our products.
• Document code and maintain applications as new functionality is developed and rolled out
• Communicate and work closely with management to schedule and drive the delivery of features, estimate task timeframes, and follow agile iteration processes
• Demonstrate a passion for your craft, be self-motivated and eager to engage in high impact, challenging engineering problems while continuously raising the standard of quality in our products
• Stay current with new technologies and engineering concepts
• Follow Medidata's Standard Operating Procedures to ensure all software meets regulatory and company requirements
  Proficient In
  
  Your Competencies:
  
  • Implementation and development with Ruby, Python, Java or another object-oriented language
  • SaaS/SOA application design with modern web frameworks
  • PostgresSQL, MySQL, or similar relational database management system (RDBMS)
    Experience With
    
    • Developing enterprise-class web API patterns and protocols, REST, GraphQL
    • Amazon Web Services including containerized/serverless applications
    • Understanding of source control management (Git/GitHub)
    • Single Page Application libraries or frameworks such as ReactJS or AngularJS
    • Understanding of the DOM
      Familiarity In
      
      • CI/CD and automated testing harnesses and infrastructure
      • Debugging tools and techniques, especially in a SOA context
      • Developing services supporting mobile applications
      • Agile software development, revision control, collaboration, and build tools such as JIRA, Travis, Git
      • UNIX-based: tools, OS, Stack
        Your Education & Experience
        
        • 1+ years experience developing web or mobile applications and services
        • B .S. or M.S. Computer Science, Engineering, related field or relevant experience
        • Strong communication and collaboration skills
        • Experience working in a regulated environment or with clinical research processes a plus
          Medidata is making a real difference in the lives of patients everywhere by accelerating critical drug and medical device development, enabling life-saving drugs and medical devices to get to market faster. Our products sit at the convergence of the Technology and Life Sciences industries, one of most exciting areas for global innovation. Nine of the top 10 best-selling drugs in 2017 were developed on the Medidata platform.
          
          Medidata Solutions have powered over 17,000+ clinical trials giving us the largest collection of clinical trial data in the world. With this asset, we pioneer innovative, advanced applications and intelligent data analytics, bringing an unmatched level of quality and efficiency to clinical trials enabling treatments to reach waiting patients sooner.
          
          Medidata Solutions, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Medidata Solutions provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by the law. Medidata Solutions complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities.

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