Senior Software Engineer

Certara; United States; On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading biopharmaceutical technology company is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Phoenix Cloud team. This role involves designing and maintaining cloud-native modules, collaborating with product managers, and participating in code reviews. Ideal candidates should have over 4 years of experience and a Bachelor's degree or equivalent. The position emphasizes strong Java and React skills, contributing to innovative drug development workflows. This is an excellent opportunity to work at the intersection of technology and pharmacological science.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in a software engineer role.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain cloud-native modules within the Phoenix Cloud platform.
• Partner with product managers to translate scientific workflow needs.
• Author and review tests to uphold validation standards.
• Participate in code reviews focusing on maintainability and security.
• Mentor and guide junior engineers.

Skills

Java

React

PostgreSQL

Cloud technology

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience

Job description

Overview

About Certara: Certara accelerates the potential of bringing medicines to market and to patients using biosimulation software, technology, and services to transform traditional drug discovery and development. Our clients include more than 2,400 biopharmaceutical companies, academic institutions, and regulatory agencies across 70 countries.

Our goal is to enable the life sciences industry's use of data, modeling, and analytics to make better decisions across the various phases of discovery and drug development. Our software and scientists incorporate modern advances in scientific understanding, drug development experience, data analysis, and AI resulting in significant opportunities to decrease the cost and increase the probability of success for new drug approval and commercialization.

About This Role

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Phoenix Cloud team, you’ll work at the intersection of cloud technology, modern data workflows, and pharmacological science. Phoenix Desktop is the industry's gold standard for PK/PD analysis (pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamics analysis) and modeling, the science behind determining safe and effective drug dosing that has helped bring thousands of medicines to patients worldwide. Trusted by the FDA, academic researchers, and leading biopharmaceutical companies for over 30 years. With Phoenix Cloud, we’re reimagining the entire "data in" to "report out" workflow by bringing it to the cloud, making it faster, more powerful, and streamline for research teams worldwide.

The Phoenix Cloud platform is a growing suite of cloud-native modules that extend the analytic core of Phoenix with powerful capabilities, from publication-ready graphing (TFL Studio) to GenAI-powered report authoring (AI PK Reports), with more modules on the horizon. You’ll be building software that directly accelerates the pace of drug development, helps scientists spend less time on mechanical data work and more time on the science that brings life-saving medicines to patients.

About the Team

Phoenix Cloud is built by a collaborative, mid‑sized team of engineers and testers organized into product‑aligned groups. The team’s effort is focused on delivering new platform capabilities. Technical decisions are made by the people closest to the work and the team holds a high bar for accuracy, performance, test coverage, and maintainability.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain cloud-native modules within the Phoenix Cloud platform using Java, React, and PostgreSQL on AWS
• Partner with product managers and domain experts to translate scientific workflow needs intotechnical requirements and deliverables
• Author and review tests to uphold the validation standards required by regulated life sciences customers
• Participate in code reviews with a focus on maintainability, security, and performance across a growing multi-module cloud platform
• Work across product, QA, and engineering teams to ship features that span the full "data in" to "report out" workflow
• Mentor and guide junior and mid-level engineers, providing meaningful feedback to elevate team output
• Contribute to process improvements and team process documentation
• Develop a working understanding of PK/PD workflows and the regulatory context our customers operate in (no prior pharma experience required)

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree or equivalent work experience
• 4+ years of experience in a software engineer role

Certara bases all employment-related decision on merit, taking into consideration qualifications, skills, achievement, and performance. We treat all applicants and employees without regard to personal characteristics such as race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, nationality, marital status, pregnancy, physical or mental condition, genetic information, military service, or other characteristic protected by law.