Senior Software Engineer - FullStack

In this role, you will join a globally distributed team of software engineers, support engineers and chem-informaticians in our platform. You will be responsible for designing and implementing software and data solutions to make our science easier to do, easier to learn from, and offer faster delivery and higher quality across all therapeutic areas. Design and build novel products and features to address long-standing problems in drug discovery with a focus on producing amazing user experiences that are more than the sum of their parts.

 

• Working with groundbreaking technology stack in cloud environment
• Collaborate with product, design, data science, and our scientific teams to build innovative experiences and services
• Propose and implement changes to our data models, core architecture, and codebase
• Develop all levels of the technical stack even if you are more experienced in some layers
• Advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices and help develop and evangelize a vibrant software engineering culture
• Support junior software engineers through mentoring, feedback and hands-on career development
• Collaborate in the transformation of an estate of siloed systems into an ecosystem that delivers great user experiences
• Plan, implement and support core infrastructure with an overall objective to improve the scalability, reliability, performance, and availability
• Advocate for thorough engineering practices and discipline: code reviews, automated testing, logging, monitoring, alerting, etc.

Requirements

 

The role requires senior level technical skills. You are passionate to stay on top of tech trends, experiment with and learn modern technologies, participate in internal & external technology communities, and mentor other members of the engineering community. You have excellent verbal and written communication, interpersonal, collaborative, and cross-functional interface skills. We see that you are well versed in JavaScript frameworks (e.g. React, Angular, in programming languages such as Python (preferred) or Java as well as in at least one major web development framework like Express, Django, Spring etc.

 

Good to have:

• Experience in defining overall API architecture, API implementations, integration, and deployment.
• Experience in cloud services, preferably AWS
• Experience in asynchronous messaging and microservice architecture
• Experience in a container and serverless architecture (Docker, Kubernetes etc.)
• Experience in Linux environments
• Understanding and experience in backend Databases (RDBMS, NoSQL, GraphDB) and their AWS Cloud counterparts (RDS, Aurora, Neptune, etc.)
• Understanding DevOps, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery (Jenkins, Argo etc.)
• Experience in Agile methodologies (Kanban and SCRUM)

Date Posted

31-mar-2026

Closing Date

29-abr-2026

AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity.  We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills.  We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.  We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics.  We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.