Remote Senior Backend Engineer

Description:

• Verisian is focused on developing innovations for clinical research and public health authorities to enhance the speed and accuracy of medical progress.
• The Senior Backend Engineer will join a world-class engineering team to build the foundation for the Verisian Platform.
• Responsibilities include working on parsers and compilers for programming languages (SAS, R, and Python) used by statistical programmers to analyze clinical trials.
• The role involves transforming results into graphs and advanced data structures for the Verisian Platform products.
• The engineer will lead the analysis, design, building, and deployment of the entire analytics and backend stack.
• The position requires designing, prioritizing, building, and testing new functionality, troubleshooting customer issues, and deploying fixes for optimal user impact and performance.
• The application stack is based on Next.js and deployed via Docker/Kubernetes in the cloud, with code managed in Git and deployed using GitHub Actions.
• The core products include the Verisian Explorer and Validator, which automate the extraction of dataset and column-level data lineages from clinical trials.

Requirements:

• Candidates must have experience with and a strong interest in programming languages, parsing algorithms, interpreters, and compilers.
• Extensive experience in Java and at least one other programming language is required.
• A clear understanding of graph theory and algorithm implementation is necessary.
• Candidates should have a passion for complex root cause analyses to find and resolve bugs.
• Experience in identifying and resolving performance and scalability issues is essential.
• Proficiency in unit and integration testing, as well as build and release management (CI/CD, GitHub Actions or similar), is required.
• A "we and mission" mindset, iteration mindset, and strong focus on teamwork are important.
• Strong communication skills are necessary.
• A mindset that emphasizes documentation and code existence is required.

Benefits:

• The work done at Verisian impacts the lives of people around the world.
• Employees will be part of a highly collaborative, ambitious, and world-class team.
• The position includes an Employee Stock Options Plan.
• The work environment is fully remote and asynchronous.
• Additional benefits may vary depending on the country of residence.