Sr Software Engineer – Full Stack

Stiftelsen Norstella - Washington, DC

Full-time - Mid Level

Remote - Washington, DC

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Sr Software Engineer - Full Stack at Norstella is responsible for developing, testing, and maintaining high-quality software applications that support the company's mission of accelerating drug development and improving patient access to therapies. This role requires strong technical skills, effective communication, and a proactive approach to learning new technologies in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Work on data intensive projects with significant complexity
• Be an excellent teammate, focusing on results, collaboration and winning as a team
• Have a strong sense of ownership of the solutions that your team works on
• Be willing to work with and invest yourself in learning new technologies, programming languages, databases etc.
• Be proactive, and a self-learner
• Communicate effectively
• Be an 'agile' person in a fast-paced dynamic work environment
• Review existing technologies for suitability and make recommendations for change
• Develop, test, and maintain high-quality software applications using Python, React JS, AWS, and Database technologies
• Work with designers and project managers to understand client requirements and translate them into technical specifications
• Collaborate with other developers on the team to ensure code quality and consistency
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code that meets our coding standards
• Troubleshoot and debug issues in production and non-production environments
• Develop and maintain automated tests to ensure software quality and reliability
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to improving our coding practices and standards
• And other duties as assigned

Requirements

• Minimum bachelor's degree in computer science and engineering or related field of study, or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of experience in Python programming, preferable but not required experience with FastAPI, Flask, Django
• 5+ years in building highly performant and scalable web applications using modern tech stacks - HTML5/CSS3/React JS/TypeScript/JavaScript
• 3+ years of experience working with cloud technology (preferably AWS), and various AWS services like S3, API Gateway, App Sync
• Expertise in AWS Cloud/AWS UI technology stack
• Experience with web scraping and web scraping frameworks
• Solid experience with Docker containerization and/or orchestration
• Experience with RESTful API and API security frameworks, service-oriented and/or microservices architecture
• 2+ years of experience in Agile practices
• 3+ years of experience with modern relational and NoSQL databases (Experience with relational and/or non-relational databases like Mongo, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, MySQL etc is a big plus)
• Experience with 'Test First' (TDD) software development process
• Experience within pharma/healthcare sector is a plus

Benefits

• Medical and prescription drug benefits
• Health savings accounts or flexible spending accounts
• Dental plans and vision benefits
• Basic life and AD&D Benefits
• 401k retirement plan
• Short- and Long-Term Disability
• Paid parental leave
• Paid time off