Senior Software Engineer Backend

AT CASTOR, WE DRIVE FASTER, SMARTER MEDICAL RESEARCH

We believe that faster, more diverse clinical trials help extend the human health span and provide a greater return on investment.

We strive to improve the clinical trial experience for patients, sites and sponsors, using technology to accelerate every step of the clinical trial journey.

Our modular clinical trial platform enables the capture and re-use of research data from anywhere, anytime and helps optimize each activity in the clinical trial journey by reducing human effort with technology. From recruitment to monitoring, we help make it easier to design and deploy trials, enroll and engage patients, collect data and analyze results.

Next to being very purpose-driven, we are proud of our caring company culture. We follow our values diligently and take the well-being of each Castorian seriously. Sounds like something for you? Read on !

WHAT YOU`LL FOCUS ON

As a Senior Software Engineer (Backend), you’ll be joining our CDMS product team. Here you’ll work on expanding our flagship product to implement exciting new features that will help take our platform to the next level. Your main responsibility will be architecting scalable and maintainable solutions that adhere to industry best practices.

Concurrently, you will help maintain the application stability and performance levels to ensure customer satisfaction. As part of your role you will also take part in our on-call rotation.

WHO ARE YOU?

• You have a computer science background and 5+ years of work experience
• You are passionate about software architecture challenges and like to both design and implement new solutions
• You have experience building high traffic, scalable web-based applications (SaaS)
• You like to work together with your team members and have great communication skills

WHAT YOU`LL BRING

• Practical experience with modern PHP programming, design patterns, OOP, and automated tests
• Practical knowledge in software architecture patterns with focus on event-based approaches
• A creative mindset with the ability to help solve challenging domain problems
• Solid understanding of software development lifecycle and agile methodologies
• Attention to details and high quality work

It would be good if you had:

• Experience within life sciences, healthtech or e-clinical products.
• Experience with cloud-based message-brokers
• Experience with Event Sourcing or CQRS architectural patterns
• Proficiency in modern PHP frameworks such as Symfony, or Laravel