Software Engineer Jobs

Are you experienced in, and passionate about IT leadership? Consider applying your expertise to impact the delivery of innovative business solutions to build maximum competitive advantage in a company that follows the science and turns ideas into life changing medicines? AstraZeneca might be the one for you!

At AstraZeneca, we put patients first and strive to meet their unmet needs worldwide. Working here means being daring, thinking big and working together to make the impossible a reality. If you are swift to action, confident to lead, willing to collaborate, and curious about what science can do, then you’re our kind of person.

AstraZeneca is currently looking for a Software Engineer to join our R&D IT Solution Delivery Team. This role requires someone that codes daily, is self-motivated, and has a passion for development. We’ll rely on you to bring your technical savvy to help the team continue to deliver outstanding solutions.

We have an established product engineering team which is growing as our product is being diversified. We grow with having teammates who are a pleasure to work with. To us, this means having modesty, taking accountability for your work and your team, feeling the need to continually raise the expectations of yourself and others, and lastly being a true engineer who is capable of solving complex problems. Simply said, we seek to make an addition to the team that makes us better.

In this role you will join our global development team which is running in a true DevOps model. We own a lean team which builds across the stack – we do everything from data transformations to rest services and front-end development. You are expected to have experience in data extraction and transformation practices, rest services and front-end development practices. You will be given requirements that you are expected to understand, plan, develop, and thoroughly test before considering the work completed. Deployments and infrastructure are also handled by and you will need to be capable of doing deployments and preparing your work for the infrastructure requirements. You are expected to thoroughly understand the Software Development Lifecycle and standard methodologies that should allow you to help your fellow teammates. You along with team members are also encouraged to support your work after it has been released to our customers. You build it, you own it.

We are looking for individuals with a proven understanding in the full-stack development space and have a desire to learn new technologies as needed. We are looking for individuals who have knowledge in the core technologies like React, Angular, Java, HTML, CSS, JS, SQL, and NoSQL, while additional skills are appreciated. It is not vital that you have expertise in all the following, but here are a few skills we are looking for in a person for this role –

• Activiti / Camunda / Flowable / NodeRED
• Java/ Spring Boot / Spring Batch
• React / Angular / TypeScript / jQuery / JavaScript
• Responsive Web / HTML5 / Twitter Bootstrap
• SnapLogic / Mule
• AWS Technologies including EC2, ECS, EKS, S3, Route53, ELB, API Gateway, and others
• Couchbase / Other NoSQL technologies
• SCSS / SASS / CSS3
• Jira / Confluence / Git

Education Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Math, Computer Science, Information Science, or equivalent degree is preferred but not required. We will hire self-taught engineers without a formal education given that you have evidence of rich history of software engineering.

Experience Requirements:

— Long history of enjoying problem solving and building things

— 1+ years of educational, personal, or professional software engineering experience

About AstraZeneca

AstraZeneca is a global, innovation-driven biopharmaceutical business that focuses on the discovery, development and commercialization of prescription medicines for some of the world's most serious diseases. AstraZeneca is one of only a handful of pure-play biopharmaceutical companies to span the entire value chain of a medicine from discovery, early- and late-stage development to manufacturing and distribution, and the global commercialization of primary care, specialty care-led and specialty care medicines that transform lives.

Our primary focus is on three key areas of healthcare: Cardiovascular and Metabolic disease (CVMD); Oncology; and Respiratory, Inflammation and Autoimmunity (RIA). We are also active in the Infection, Neuroscience and Gastrointestinal (ING) disease areas.

At AstraZeneca, science is at the core of everything we do. But more than that, science is who we are. Our research sites are collaborative, innovative and dynamic environments that allow our scientists to keep pushing the boundaries. We work alongside scientists at leading institutions to better understand disease, identify potential new drugs and accelerate drug development. We are also pioneers in crafting a more open research environment.

One of the pillars enabling our science is our scientific computing capability to tackle ever-changing and complex data and computing problems.

Groundbreaking advances in science are driving storage & computational needs. Partnerships and external collaborations are demanding more effective ways to share data & analytical tools. To bolster our innovation-driven science we are now investing in the next generation scientific computing environment for science research across the globe.

So, what’s next!

Are you already envisioning yourself joining an inclusive environment? Good, because we can’t wait to hear from you.