Senior Software Engineer - Study Lifecycle Tooling - Evinova
About The Position
Evinova is a health-tech business focused on advancing digital transformation across the life sciences sector. It develops digital solutions intended to improve clinical research, care delivery, and patient experiences. Employees are expected to work from the office three days per week. This role is located in Gaithersburg, Maryland; candidates must live within commuting distance or be willing to relocate. The Senior Software Engineer will design, build, and evolve backend services and APIs that enable clinical trial teams to configure, deploy, and maintain digital study experiences. This hands-on, primarily backend-focused role develops business-critical software and has significant product impact. The engineer owns technical outcomes, contributes to technical design and engineering decisions, and works with engineers, UX designers, product colleagues, and study delivery teams to address problems across the study lifecycle. The team is distributed across locations and time zones, including Europe, requiring some early-morning overlap and deliberate coordination, communication, and documentation. Engineers are expected to use approved AI tools responsibly and to review and validate generated output against security, privacy, quality, and regulatory requirements. The role involves building TypeScript and Node.js services, REST APIs, integrations, and data models; evaluating technical trade-offs; and taking features, services, or initiatives through design, implementation, testing, deployment, and continued improvement. The engineer builds clean, maintainable, testable, secure software with appropriate automated testing; supports scalability, observability, resilience, and performance; and contributes to monitoring, troubleshooting, and release support in line with the team's production-support model. The role also includes reducing technical debt, strengthening automation, sharing knowledge, mentoring colleagues, and improving engineering practices. Success includes delivering features that reduce manual steps and rework in study setup and maintenance, making configuration and change workflows faster and less error-prone, improving testing, observability, and incident response, and establishing reusable technical patterns and documentation. The technology environment includes TypeScript, Node.js, REST APIs, OpenAPI, JSON Schema, MongoDB, relational databases, Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS. React and related frontend technologies are used across the wider product. The position is primarily backend-focused, with collaboration across the stack as appropriate; experience with every listed technology is not expected.
Requirements
- Typically five or more years of professional software engineering experience, including substantial backend development.
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience owning features, services, or technical initiatives through design, implementation, testing, deployment, and ongoing improvement.
- Demonstrated experience designing and building backend services and APIs, with significant professional experience in TypeScript and Node.js.
- Experience designing data models and working with relational or document databases.
- Experience with automated testing across unit, component, integration, and end-to-end levels.
- Experience with branching, code review, and continuous integration in a shared repository.
- Experience developing, deploying, or operating containerized services in AWS using Docker and Kubernetes.
- Ability to work effectively in a distributed team, including reasonable flexibility with meeting times and proactive communication and documentation.
- Gaithersburg-area commuting distance or willingness to relocate.
Nice To Haves
- MongoDB experience.
- Experience applying Domain-Driven Design principles to complex business domains.
- Experience with CI/CD, infrastructure automation, monitoring, logging, and production support.
- Experience in healthcare, clinical research, safety-critical systems, or other regulated domains.
- Curiosity, sound engineering judgment, strong engineering fundamentals, and ability to learn quickly.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain reliable tools for study configuration, deployment, operation, and maintenance.
- Build TypeScript and Node.js backend services, REST APIs, integrations, and data models.
- Evaluate technical options and trade-offs and contribute to reusable engineering patterns and standards.
- Own significant features, services, or technical initiatives from design through implementation, testing, deployment, and ongoing improvement.
- Collaborate with engineers, UX designers, product colleagues, and study delivery teams across locations and time zones; communicate and document decisions for distributed colleagues.
- Build clean, maintainable, testable, and secure software with appropriate automated testing.
- Design for scalability, observability, resilience, and performance, and contribute to monitoring, troubleshooting, and release support.
- Reduce technical debt, strengthen automation, share knowledge, mentor colleagues, and improve engineering practices.
- Use approved AI tools responsibly, reviewing and validating generated output for security, privacy, quality, and regulatory requirements.
Benefits
- Short-term incentive bonus opportunity.
- Eligibility to participate in an equity-based long-term incentive program.
- Qualified retirement program (401(k) plan).
- Paid vacation and holidays.
- Paid leaves.
- Medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage.
- Workplace accommodations for persons with disabilities.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
