Senior Backend Application Developer (Remote)

Our Purpose

PSL Group is a global organization dedicated to putting information at the service of medicine. The companies and people of the PSL Group aim to improve medical care by serving those who need it, those who provide it and those who seek to improve it. Our primary purpose is to help clients increase the effectiveness of activities pertaining to scientific communication, medical education and product/service marketing. To this end, we want our information services to contribute to the goals we share with our clients, namely: to accelerate the advancement of medicine and help people enjoy better, longer lives.

Objective

The Senior Application Developer will be responsible for defining, designing and delivering scalable and sustainable software solutions. You will be a part of the Engineering team and will be working on the products that stay at the core of the organization.

Key Responsibilities:

• Participate in the engineering, development and maintenance of the different products and projects
• Work with the PM to provide estimates for technical activities
• Analyze requirements and produce documentation for architectural recommendations, systems, and code level design
• Consult with other project managers, development teams, and generally contribute your skills wherever required
• Perform code reviews for standards, quality assurance, and security audit purposes.
• Address day-to-day and longer term technical issues and problems
• Participate in the R&D phase to evaluate new technologies, solutions and software

Skills and Qualifications:

Required:

• Over 5 years of experience in web development
• Skills to design a software (DB structure, components, API, integrations)
• Ability to break a new development into subtasks and estimate amount of work required
• Experience in mentoring junior team members
• Experience with good practices: Unit Tests, peer code review, design patterns.
• Experience with AWS serverless services (Lambdas, pipelines, Fargate, etc)
• Experience with NodeJS
• Experience with SQL databases (Postgres, MySQL)
• Good communication skills
• Mindset of an engineer (attention to application performance, understanding the system on low level, debugging skills)

Assets:

• Experience with ReactJS
• Experience with LLMs