Backend Developer

LOCATION: Barcelona office (3 days office – 2 working from home) 

Are you ready to be part of the future of healthcare? Are you able to think big, be bold, and harness the power of digital and AI to address longstanding life sciences challenges? Then Evinova, a new health tech business part of the AstraZeneca Group might be for you! Transform billions of patients’ lives through technology, data, and groundbreaking ways of working. You’re innovative, decisive, and transformative. Someone excited to use technology to improve patients’ health. 

Accountabilities:
As a Backend Developer, you will be instrumental in the development, maintenance, and scaling of our SaaS platform. You will be part of Unify, a software that connects patients with medical trials. Evinova has more than 15 software engineering teams in multiple locations: Sweden, UK, Bulgaria, USA and Spain. 

Essential Skills/Experience:
- Computer Science or similar degree
- More than 5+ years of Software development experience
- More than 3+ years focused on backend developments
- Fully comfortable working with Nodejs and Typescript
- Fully comfortable working with Java
- Solid computer science foundations: algorithms, data structures, concurrency and threading.
- Good understanding of Software Design Patterns & Object-Oriented Programming
- Ability to write good unit tests is a must
- Solid understanding of system architecture, including distributed systems and microservices
- AWS Cloud: Manage deployments on Kubernetes environments and Lambdas
- Strong experience with datastores such as DynamoDB, Redis, and Elasticsearch
- Experience with Cloud tooling and building Infrastructure as Code: terraform or similar
- Worked with the version management tool GIT
- Awareness of DevOps best practices and experience with CI/CD tools.
- Enthusiastic using agile methodologies: scrum, kanban or xp
- Great communication skills in English (verbal and written)
- You have a patient-focused mindset.
- You enjoy collaborating and pairing with other software engineers.
- You welcome feedback from your peers and act upon it.

Desirable
- Participation in open source projects
- Cloud experience in Azure and Azure Functions
- Secondary skill in web development, using HTML, JavaScript and React. Knowledge of GraphQL.
- Experience with Python
- Devops mindset with GitHub Actions or similar

When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working gives us the platform we need to connect, work at pace and challenge perceptions. That's why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesn't mean we're not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world.

At AstraZeneca, we follow the science. This guides our decision-making at every level. We push the boundaries of science with no limits to our curiosity. We continuously question and explore. We make bold moves at the cutting edge, transforming molecules to change the practice of medicine. Since our renewed focus on building our Oncology function, we have had great successes with 7 new Oncology medicines since 2013. We set the tone for the rest of the industry, consistently publishing our findings in high impact journals, and leading with expertise and entrepreneurial spirit.

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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.