Senior Software Engineer

Certara•UNAVAILABLE, UNAVAILABLE

About The Position

As a Senior Software Engineer on Pulse, you will design, build, and maintain shared integration services that enable secure, event-based communication and data exchange across Certara applications. Pulse is a foundational platform capability—not an end-user product—and supports cross-product workflows, file exchange, and system-to-system integration. You will collaborate with product, architecture, security, and engineering teams in an agile environment to deliver a scalable, well-governed platform that other Certara teams can adopt with confidence. The role emphasizes high-quality, secure, and compliant solutions.

Requirements

At least 6 years of experience in similar software engineering roles.
Experience building and operating APIs and event-driven or messaging-based systems.
Solid understanding of authentication and authorization concepts and secure coding practices.
Experience working in a highly collaborative agile software organization.
Willingness to embrace AI-assisted development and continuously learn and adopt evolving AI tools and workflows.
Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous environments and own significant modules end to end.

Nice To Haves

Experience with shared services, integration platforms, messaging systems, or data pipelines.
Knowledge of enterprise identity models such as RBAC, ABAC, ReBAC, and AWS IAM.
Experience with cloud-hosted AWS SaaS architectures.
Experience in regulated or compliance-aware life sciences environments.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and maintain Pulse services, APIs, and event contracts used by multiple Certara applications.
Own one or more significant Pulse platform components, including their reliability, performance, and operability in a SaaS environment.
Build secure, scalable patterns for event-based messaging and file or data exchange, avoiding ad hoc point-to-point integrations.
Implement identity-based authentication and authorization across Pulse services, such as RBAC, ABAC, ReBAC, or IAM.
Translate security, data governance, and regulatory expectations into well-tested engineering solutions.
Author and review unit, integration, and contract tests; participate in code and design reviews.
Break complex deliverables into smaller parts and deliver them incrementally to enable collaboration.
Consistently produce deliverables that do not require revision.
Collaborate with the Technical Product Manager on requirements elicitation, backlog refinement, and technical trade-offs.
Partner with consuming application teams to onboard them to Pulse and support adoption.
Oversee the work of lower-level engineers and provide significant feedback to team efforts.
Contribute to process improvements, architecture documentation, and team process documentation.
Identify and proactively communicate risks related to own work to product leadership.
Take initiative to identify and suggest future work for self and the team.
Use AI coding assistants and agentic tools to accelerate design, development, testing, and documentation, applying sound engineering judgment and reviewing AI-generated code.
Build relationships to solve problems directly and limit management escalations.