Senior Full-Stack Engineer: Cloud-Native, Secure Platforms

AstraZeneca plc; España; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

AstraZeneca plc is seeking a technical leader to engineer secure, reliable platforms that accelerate life-changing medicines to patients. You will shape how teams design, test, deploy and observe systems across AWS, delivering maintainable, compliant software at pace.

Responsibilities include building full-stack apps, implementing BDD with Cucumber and Playwright, and delivering observable, auditable pipelines with strong security practices.

Qualifications

• Proficiency with a modern frontend framework (React) and a backend language (TypeScript/Node.js or Python); RESTful API design and integration.
• Hands-on experience with AWS CDK and core AWS services (IAM, Lambda, ECS/Fargate or EKS, S3, CloudFront, API Gateway, RDS/DynamoDB).
• Strong experience building GitHub Actions workflows, reusable actions, and multi-environment promotion with approvals and rollback.
• Practical experience with Cucumber (Gherkin), Playwright for E2E/UI, and contract testing; tests treated as first-class artifacts.
• Working knowledge of GxP expectations (traceability, validation, documented changes) and producing audit-ready evidence through pipelines.
• Experience designing and integrating systems using MCP (Model Context Protocol) patterns for tool orchestration and automation.
• Demonstrated use of Jira for backlog hygiene, sprint planning, and reporting with clear acceptance criteria.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate full-stack web applications and RESTful APIs using React and TypeScript/Node.js or Python.
• Own infrastructure definitions in AWS CDK; design secure, scalable, multi-account/multi-region environments.

Skills

React

TypeScript/Node.js

Python

RESTful API design

CI/CD

BDD testing

GxP by design

Jira

Tools

AWS CDK

IAM

ECS/Fargate or EKS

S3

CloudFront

API Gateway

RDS/DynamoDB

Cucumber

Playwright

Grafana

Job description

AstraZeneca plc is seeking a technical leader to engineer secure, reliable platforms that accelerate life-changing medicines to patients. You will shape how teams design, test, deploy and observe systems across AWS, delivering maintainable, compliant software at pace.

Responsibilities include building full-stack apps, implementing BDD with Cucumber and Playwright, and delivering observable, auditable pipelines with strong security practices.