Senior Software Engineer

Hub; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

SimplerQMS is a remote-first company building a quality management platform for life sciences. We seek a Senior Software Engineer to join the product team, own key components, and contribute to software engineering excellence across design, testing, documentation, build, deployment, and operations.

You will help advance the product with a strong focus on collaboration with engineers, designers, and product managers, while maintaining high quality and low bug counts in core products.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of hands-on software development.
• At least 1 year in a professional environment using JavaScript frameworks or Ruby on Rails.
• Experience deploying software to a cloud environment (AWS/Azure).
• Strong English communication, written and verbal.
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL.

Responsibilities

• Own key platform components, from design through build and deployment.
• Lead or participate in product initiatives to remove customer friction.
• Adopt best practices in software engineering, testing, and documentation.
• Collaborate with engineers, designers, and product managers to drive the product forward.

Skills

JavaScript frameworks

Ruby on Rails

AWS / Azure

PostgreSQL

Software development

Tools

Svelte

TypeScript

GitHub

AWS

Job description

Remote position - no relocation

SimplerQMS is on a mission to empower life science teams to bring life-saving products to market. We do that by building an integrated quality management platform for the entire life science ecosystem. SimplerQMS is trusted by hundreds of highly regulated international customers, ranging from innovative biotechnology companies to well-known names in the pharmaceutical and medical device sectors.

By helping to streamline compliance, manage documents, and automate quality processes, we take pride in providing a simpler QMS system that allows start-ups and medium-sized enterprises to pick up the battle with the giants. Through our platform, clients can manage document control, training, CAPAs, audits, and risks efficiently.

SimplerQMS is a fast-growing and remote-first company distributed all around the globe. We hire for talent and fit before physical location.The product and engineering team center around the Central European Time zone (CET).

Join our team

This role sits within the Product team for our newly launched platform, for which we're establishing a second core product team focused on removing customer friction around compliance and making it easier for our users to truly collaborate. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join it. We value engineering excellence and strive to build a strong engineering culture.

The tech stack you'll meet:

SimplerQMS uses established technologies such as Svelte (Typescript), Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, GitHub, and Amazon Web Services.

Take ownership of the product and make an impact!

At SimplifierQMS, we emphasize working as a cohesive product team, where collaboration between engineers, designers, and product managers is crucial. Together, we are responsible for moving the product forward, ensuring every feature benefits from the team's collective expertise.

As a Senior Software Engineer, your mission will be to help advance SimplifierQMS’s product development efforts by participating in or leading projects. We empower you as an individual, allowing you to adopt best practices in software engineering design, testing, documentation, build, deployment, and operations. You will own key components within the platform, which involves envisioning, designing, creating, building, and supporting these components.

Furthermore, SimplifierQMS envisions that you will join and lead discussions around various platform initiatives and occasionally take charge of troubleshooting and maintaining high quality and low bug count in our core products.

About you

Ideally, you are an engineer at heart and possess most of the following skills and personal qualifications:

• You are an engineer at heart (see https://simplerqms.com/about/engineering-manifesto/)

• You take initiative and is comfortable clarifying needs by engaging with stakeholders team members to define requirements.

• You value open communication more than comprehensive documentation - in line with agile principles.

• Have 4+ years of experience in hands-on software development.

• At least 1 of these should be in a professional working environment using JavaScript-based frameworks or Ruby On Rails.

• Experience deploying software to a cloud environment, such as AWS or Azure.

• Ideally, you have worked in a product team owning a product or part of a product.

• A fast learner with strong opinions about the projects you work on.

• Have solid written and verbal English communication skills and can clearly articulate technically complex problems and solutions to both technical and nontechnical colleagues.

• Have experience working with relational databases like PostgreSQL.

• Attentive to detail with a high focus on writing high-quality, maintainable, and testable code.

• Are willing and able to pick up new technologies and frameworks when required.

What you are looking for

A playground for you to grow, learn, and develop as an engineer. You can develop yourself in the direction you prefer. In a growing team, there will be a demand for both a high degree of specialization as well as a broader perspective of a generalist. SimplifierQMS advocates an experimental and innovative mindset.

You'll find a flat-structured hierarchy and a tailored career path suiting your ambitions.

Important

Overt use of AI to write motivational cover letter and tailor resume is a drawback. We favor real effort.

The hiring process will be a short intro call with the hiring manager, a 2-house timeboxed case study, a technical interview and a conversation about your experience, your case, and the role.