Medidata is leading the digital transformation of life sciences, creating hope for millions of patients. 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 1,400 customers and partners access the world’s most-used platform for clinical development, commercial, and real-world data. Medidata, a Dassault Systmes company, 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.

Your Mission:

Medidata is looking for a full-stack Applications Engineer to enhance and implement new features and functionality in Medidatas suite of products.

Our applications are built with Ruby on Rails, MySQL and are hosted in AWS.  Our front end uses HTML, CSS, jQuery, React, AJAX and Bootstrap. 

As an engineer, you’ll be challenged both to develop new features in response to market demand and improve the performance and scalability of our applications to meet the rapidly growing user base.

• Design and enhance features for a large-scale service environment using OO principles with a focus on performance, scalability, quality and extensibility

• Full stack development, including APIs, using technologies such as Ruby on Rails, .Net, Java or Python

• Embrace test-driven development with complete code coverage and continuous integration

• Provide diagnostic support and fix bugs for service features

• Do code reviews, software design and many other engineering practices

Your Competencies:

• Able to solve complex problems and provide solutions that can be applied optimally in a service environment.

• Strong cross team collaboration skills.

• Effective communication skills to relay technical information to various cross functional teams and clients.

• Write meaningful code reviews in comments on pull requests.

• Make well-reasoned design decisions, identifying potential issues, trade-offs, risks, and the appropriate level of abstraction.

• Maintain awareness of industry trends and tools.

• Debug issues throughout the stack, codebase, application, or system in various environments, finding and reporting the root cause or a viable workaround in a timely manner.

Your Education & Experience:

• Experience with a full stack built in a MVC framework

• Experience with frontend technologies

• Experience with SQL optimization and database schema design (we use MySQL, Postgres and other databases)

• Experience consuming, designing and building APIs

• Experience with CI/CD

• Experience designing and writing unit tests, step definitions and scenarios to maintain a high level of code coverage and quality standards

• Bachelors degree in computer science (or related field) or equivalent experience.

Note: The requirements should reflect your minimum requirements for the role in general

Medidata is making a real difference in the lives of patients everywhere by accelerating critical drug and medical device development, enabling life-saving drugs and medical devices to get to market faster. Our products sit at the convergence of the Technology and Life Sciences industries, one of most exciting areas for global innovation. Nine of the top 10 best-selling drugs in 2017 were developed on the Medidata platform. 

Medidata Solutions have powered over 20,000+ clinical trials giving us the largest collection of clinical trial data in the world. With this asset, we pioneer innovative, advanced applications and intelligent data analytics, bringing an unmatched level of quality and efficiency to clinical trials enabling treatments to reach waiting patients sooner.

Medidata Solutions, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Medidata Solutions provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by the law. Medidata Solutions complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities.