Sr. Staff Software Engineer - Full Stack - Ingestor

Medidata: Powering Smarter Treatments and Healthier People

Medidata, a Dassault Systèmes company, is leading the digital transformation of life sciences, creating hope for millions of people. 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 2,000+ customers and partners access the world's most trusted platform for clinical development, commercial, and real-world data. Known for its ground-breaking technological innovations, Medidata has supported more than 30,000 clinical trials and 9 million study participants. And Medidata’s ongoing commitment to infusing the patient voice into trial designs and solutions is helping to create a better and more inclusive experience for all participants in clinical studies. Medidata is involved in nearly 40% of company-initiated trial starts globally, with studies conducted in more than 140 countries. More than 70% of novel drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2022 were developed with Medidata software. Medidata 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 and follow us @medidata.

Our Platform: Medidata’s data platform is the backbone of all our products and services. It powers a significant percentage of clinical development across the globe and plays a key role in finding new treatments for disease, contributing to the advancement of science and a healthier world.

Our Team: Our team is responsible for Medidata’s self-service data mesh platform. Our customers depend on our ability to process and analyze large quantities of data in real time. We focus on solving complex real-world problems while shipping practical solutions. What we do is as much art as it is science, and as Steve Jobs put it, “Real artists ship.”

We’re looking for a Sr. Staff Software Engineer with 8+ years of experience who shares our passion for solving real-world engineering challenges and thrives on iterating and shipping frequently. You should have experience designing and developing software applications across the full stack and writing concise, clean, maintainable code to deliver solutions.

We’re in the process of rethinking and rebuilding the ingestion and integration feature from the ground up. You’ll help drive architecture decisions and lead the team to a successful initial product release.

Here is a list of tools and approaches we use.  We don’t ask you to be an expert in all of them, but we expect you to be productive in this environment.

• Our frontend is built using React. We believe it offers a good development experience, community support, and scales nicely to larger application codebases. You should have experience with React or similar frontend end frameworks (i.e. Angular, Vue, Svelte). We also love many concepts from Stimulus and are always exploring various frameworks and concepts to enhance our environment.
• We are very polyglot when it comes to backend frameworks. Many of our applications are built on top of Rails, but some teams chose Python (Flask) and other tools. We haven’t yet decided on what we’ll use as our backend framework for the new Ingestor, but you should have deep expertise in one or more web frameworks and have good familiarity with a few.
• We’re not dogmatic about our language and runtime choices; instead, we’re pragmatic and lean heavily towards shipping great code using runtimes and frameworks that support this.
• Most of our enterprise data processing happens on the stream. We build our event streaming platform on top of Kafka and Flink. You should have a good grasp and some experience with event based streaming systems.
• We deploy our infrastructure on top of Kubernetes (AWS EKS). Because we practice DevOps, we expect you to have a good understanding of container-based environments and experience working with Terraform, Ansible, or similar tools.
• We embrace functional programming but are not pedantic about it. We favor immutable state and prefer composable functional abstractions over large class hierarchies. You should be experienced in both OO and functional programming methodologies and be able to leverage the advantages of each method.
• We love clean and maintainable code and leverage deep abstractions to help us deliver quality software that’s easy to maintain, faster. We hope you have a similar passion for great code and abstractions and can show us some of the work you have done!
• We embrace ShapeUp concepts when we work, so our engineers don’t just operate a conveyor belt of stories and tickets. Instead, we rely on engineers to help us solve complex problems, consider various constraints, and think through the tradeoffs.