Senior Software Engineer

Location: San Diego, California, United States, San Jose, California, United States, Irvine, California, United States

Workplace: hybrid

Employment Type: full

Description

Faro Health aims to improve lives by helping life sciences companies design optimal clinical trials. Our AI powered software platform optimizes and orchestrates complex clinical development by providing powerful insights about trial design and outcomes. Faro empowers researchers to design more intelligent trials, reducing development costs and reaching milestones faster with better patient experiences. 

Faro is a mission driven company seeking world class people who share our passion for improving drug availability and patient outcomes through better clinical trial design. We pride ourselves on our vibrant, inclusive, and growth mindset oriented culture. Faro offers competitive compensation and benefits, generous vacation and parental leave, and flexible working hours. 

We are a hybrid workplace where San Diego employees work from their homes as well as in our stunning main headquarters enjoying a gym with classes and (early next year) spa services, outdoor lawn work area, and steeply discounted food hall. Remote employees work from home and visit the main office for group events and in-person collaboration. 

In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to work with a dynamic and fast-paced team of software professionals. If you are passionate about solving complex problems, join us in shaping the future of clinical trial development. 

Responsibilities: 

• Own Feature Delivery: Lead the development of new features from ideation to release, ensuring business requirements are met with excellence. 
• Hands-On Innovation: Contribute directly to the architecture and development of high-complexity features and tackling challenging problems. 
• Champion Best Practices: Be a driving force in establishing and promoting engineering best practices, ensuring quality, performance, and scalability across the team. 
• Explore New Technologies: Stay ahead of the curve by integrating cutting-edge technology and innovations to continuously improve our platform’s functionality.
• Mentor & Lead: Serve as a mentor and catalyst for your peers, helping to accelerate the realization of our product roadmap while fostering a collaborative learning environment.
• Customer-Centric Mindset: Deliver an exceptional user experience by empathizing with our customers and deeply understanding their needs, ensuring every feature enhances their journey. 
• Experience with AI-powered feature development and cross-service integration is a strong plus

**NOTE: Candidates and Recruiting Agencies, please do not contact our employees regarding the position or your application status. Doing so will automatically disqualify you from the position or working with us. Only applications submitted through the designated link will be considered. Please DO NOT SPAM our employees regarding the role or your application status.

Requirements

Skills and Competencies 

• 7+ years of experience in delivering highly scalable, distributed software products with SaaS architectures and multi-tenancy 
• Strong understanding of microservice architecture and RESTful Services
• Expertise in: TypeScript and Python
• Strong skills in: React, HTML, CSS, Node.js, Docker 
• Preferably having experience with UV, Vite, Redis Cache, Postgres, Express, Inversify, Agno 
• Experience in developing real-time data or event systems 
• Experience designing relational schemas on relational data stores like PostgreSQL, MySQL 
• Experience with cloud-service providers like Azure, AWS and/or Google Cloud
• Self-motivated and able to work independently and in a team environment
• Willingness to lead and mentor other software engineers 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal skills 
• You have experience in a fast moving, growth-minded startup, and are comfortable with being flexible and adaptable as requirements change. 
• Willingness and ability to learn new technologies and take on different assignments
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline or an equivalent training experience 
• Experience with AI/LLM integration, Microsoft Office Add-in development, or clinical trials / regulated healthcare domain is a strong plus

Benefits

Salary 

● Salary range for this position is $168,000 to $198,000 

● Salary listed reflects the base salary only and does not include other elements of total compensation 

● Individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training 

Equity 

In addition to this position's salary (listed above), equity will be a major component of the total compensation for this position. We aim to offer higher-than-average equity compensation for a company of our size, and communicate equity amounts at the time of offer issuance. 

Benefits 

• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Retirement Plan (401k)
• Life Insurance (Basic)
• Short Term and Long Term Disability
• Paid Time Off (Flexible Vacation Policy; Paid Sick & Public Holidays Observed)
• Training & Development Reimbursement
• Hybrid Work Environment
• Peer-to-peer bonus program
• Company/department outings and events
• Stock Option Plan
• Office On-Premises Amenities; gym, restaurant tenant discount, Padel Nine