Senior Applications Engineer

Medidata Solutions, Inc. ,
London, Greater London

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Job Description

_Medidata: a great place to work; a great place to stay_ Medidata is leading the digital transformation of life sciences with the world's most-used platform for clinical development, commercial and real-world data. Powered by artificial intelligence and delivered by #1 ranked industry experts, the Intelligent Platform for Life Sciences helps pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device companies and academic researchers accelerate value, minimize risk and optimize outcomes. Medidata serves more than 1,000 customers and partners worldwide and empowers more than 100,000 certified users every day to create hope for millions of patients. Discover the future of life sciences: www.mdsol.com We know that diverse teams win and are fully committed to selecting leaders and employees that represent the markets in which we operate. We are still led by our Co-founders, Tarek Sherif and Glen de Vries, and have global operations in US, Europe and Asia with over 2000 employees. **Your Mission:** As a Senior Applications Engineer you would - + Design,develop and manage software application using the engineering principles + Work with architects and other engineers and contribute actively to system architecture and design decisions + Implement and advocate good engineering practices for co-located and remote teams + Actively engage in code reviews to improve code quality and promote TDD/BDD approach + Mentor junior engineers **Your Competencies:** + Thorough understanding of Object-oriented and functional programming styles + Experience working in an enterprise setting on JVM languages like Scala, Java 8, ReactJs + Working experience in relational databases + Working experience of developing applications using TDD, BDD. + Strong understanding of REST API Design,discovery,documentation and management + Working knowledge of CI/CD tools like Travis,Jenkins + Good knowledge of git and git-flow + Knowledge of authentication, authorization of services + Some experience with queues, publishing to and subscribing from topics + Experience with web-servers, load balancers and firewalls + Reasonable understanding of HTML5, CSS and JavaScript (ES6/ES7) + Decent understanding of the UI tech stack like Node.js, React, Redux, Webpack + Docker,AWS concepts + Experience to work in a fast paced environment with Scrum/Agile project methodology + Thrives in a team environment and has strong written and oral communication skills + Prepared to challenge the status-quo - propose multiple solutions with pros and cons **Your Education & Experience:** + Typically requires strong related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or a Master's degree; or equivalent work experience 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's solutions have powered over 14,000 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. _MDSOL Europe Ltd is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome all applications irrespective of race, gender, gender reassignment, age, religion or belief, relationship status, pregnancy/maternity, sexual orientation or disability._ \#LI-AB1