Staff Software Engineer

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.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you play a role in designing, implementing, and maintaining our software solutions. Your expertise in software development and commitment to delivering high-quality, compliant

solutions for our customers will guide your day to day. You will work with a variety of technologies and frameworks to complete tasks in an efficient manner. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive innovative solutions in an agile environment.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain enterprise software applications
• Collaborates with the product team on requirements elicitation to deliver software
• Authors and reviews unit/integration test
• Participate in code and software review processes
• Collaborates with members of the product, test, and software engineering organizations
• Deliver outcomes for all aspects of a software product
• Establishes and enforces standards across the assigned areas of influence
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization
• Able to identify and anticipate risks across an entire project and communicate them broadly and pro-

actively to the appropriate audiences

• Provides leadership, mentoring, and guidance at all organizational levels and across multiple job

functions

• Demonstrates best practices and guides lower levels through example
• Has end-to-end responsibility for projects of increasing complexity that encompass more than their own

development

• Develops adoption plans for new tools or features of already-adopted technologies
• Curious by nature and identifies opportunities for innovation
• Keeps current on cutting-edge technologies and educates others on them
• Demonstrates knowledge of strategic thinking, design, and systems development
• Analyzes engineering efforts to determine risks or sensitivities
• Adaptable to changing needs

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in similar roles
• Experience working in a highly collaborative agile software organization

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.