[Hiring] Senior Backend Engineer @Verisian

Role Description

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will join our world-class engineering team in building the Verisian Platform. You will work on an application that exposes our clinical trial insights to data managers, statistical programmers, statisticians, medical experts/writers, and regulatory authorities.

• The Verisian Platform brings value to a set of highly regulated processes crucial for medical progress and innovation.
• Your work will support the Planner, Builder, Explorer, Validator, Submitter, and related supporting modules.
• These core modules target the planning, exploration/onboarding, building, validation, submission, and review of clinical trials and their results.
• They enable data managers, statistical programmers, statisticians, medical writers, and regulators to deliver their work faster, at higher quality, lower cost, and in greater confidence.
• Our pipelines analyze clinical trial documentation, code, logs, data, and results to build a knowledge graph through code traceability.
• We harness the resulting dataset, column-level and logic lineage to turn clinical trials into Information Infrastructure that can be used by experts and consumed by AI.
• We capture complex processes in fully- and semi-automated workflows that place experts in control and AI automation at their fingertips.
• We build visualizations to provide our customers with a maximum of insight as fast as possible.
• Our application stack is based on Next.js and deployed via Docker/Kubernetes in the cloud.
• The data analysis pipelines run in Argo Workflows.
• We analyze code based on Antlr4 and Java.
• AI agents are developed in Python.
• Git is where our code lives, and Github Actions is how it gets out into the world.
• You will develop parsers and compilers for programming languages (SAS, R, and Python) used by statistical programmers and data scientists.
• You will transform the code, data, specifications, and statistical results into complex graphs and related data structures.
• You will be expected to lead the analysis, design, building and testing of components of the code analytics and backend stack.
• As part of our core team, you will join us in designing, prioritising, building and testing new functionality.
• You will troubleshoot customer issues, find root causes, and deploy required fixes to ensure maximal user impact and performance.

Qualifications

• Experience with and strong interest in programming languages, parsing algorithms, interpreters, and compilers.
• Extensive experience in Java and at least one other programming language.
• Experience with and clear understanding of graph theory and algorithm implementation.
• Experience with and love for complex root cause analyses to find and resolve bugs.
• Experience identifying and resolving performance and scalability issues.
• Strong focus on building as a team: we have a We & Mission mindset.
• Strong ability to communicate complex technical problems and solutions, foresee risks, and align work across multiple teams and colleagues.
• “If it’s not code and documented, it doesn’t exist”-mindset.
• Iteration mindset.

Requirements

• Bonus points for experience with compilers/interpreters.
• Bonus points for experience with Antlr4/similar parsing framework.
• Bonus points for experience with R.
• Bonus points for experience with R/Python/interpreted programming language execution.

Benefits

• What you build impacts billions of people around the world.
• Highly collaborative, ambitious and world-class team.
• Employee Stock Options Plan.
• All remote, asynchronous work environment with in-person summits around the world.
• Pension plan and additional benefits depending on country of residence.