Senior Software Engineer

Overview

About Certara

Certara accelerates the potential of bringing medicines to market and to patients using biosimulation software, technology, and services to transform traditional drug discovery and development. Our clients include more than 2,400 biopharmaceutical companies, academic institutions, and regulatory agencies across 70 countries.

Our goal is to enable the life sciences industry's use of data, modeling, and analytics to make better decisions across the various phases of discovery and drug development. Our software and scientists incorporate modern advances in scientific understanding, drug development experience, data analysis, and AI resulting in significant opportunities to decrease the cost and increase the probability of success for new drug approval and commercialization.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Phoenix Cloud team, you'll work at the intersection of cloud technology, modern data workflows, and pharmacological science. Phoenix Desktop is the industry's gold standard for PK/PD analysis (pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamics analysis) and modeling, the science behind determining safe and effective drug dosing that has helped bring thousands of medicines to patients worldwide. Trusted by the FDA, academic researchers, and leading biopharmaceutical companies for over 30 years. With Phoenix Cloud, we're reimagining the entire "data in" to "report out" workflow by bringing it to the cloud, making it faster, more powerful, and streamline for research teams worldwide.

The Phoenix Cloud platform is a growing suite of cloud-native modules that extend the analytic core of Phoenix with powerful capabilities, from publication-ready graphing (TFL Studio) to GenAI-powered report authoring (AI PK Reports), with more modules on the horizon. You'll be building software that directly accelerates the pace of drug development, helps scientists spend less time on mechanical data work and more time on the science that brings life-saving medicines to patients.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain cloud-native modules within the Phoenix Cloud platform using Java, React, and PostgreSQL on AWS
• Partner with product managers and domain experts to translate scientific workflow needs into technical requirements and deliverables
• Author and review tests to uphold the validation standards required by regulated life sciences customers
• Participate in code reviews with a focus on maintainability, security, and performance across a growing multi-module cloud platform
• Work across product, QA, and engineering teams to ship features that span the full "data in" to "report out" workflow
• Mentor and guide junior and mid-level engineers, providing meaningful feedback to elevate team output
• Contribute to process improvements and team process documentation
• Develop a working understanding of PK/PD workflows and the regulatory context our customers operate in (no prior pharma experience required)

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Experience working in a collaborative agile environment with cross-functional teams
• Experience building backend services or APIs
• Experience with React or a comparable modern JavaScript/TypeScript framework
• Working knowledge of relational databases
• Experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practices, ideally YAML-based tools like CircleCI
• Demonstrated ability to mentor junior engineers through code review and technical guidance

• Experience building multi-tenant SaaS or cloud-native applications
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker, ECS, or Kubernetes)
• Experience in regulated industries (life sciences, healthcare, fintech) or with validated software
• Experience with data visualization libraries or reporting tools

Certara bases all employment-related decision on merit, taking into consideration qualifications, skills, achievement, and performance. We treat all applicants and employees without regard to personal characteristics such as race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, nationality, marital status, pregnancy, physical or mental condition, genetic information, military service, or other characteristic protected by law.