Principal Software Engineer

About Us

Endpoint is an interactive response technology (IRT®) systems and solutions provider that supports the life sciences industry. Since 2009, we have been working with a single vision in mind, to help sponsors and pharmaceutical companies achieve clinical trial success. Our solutions, realized through the proprietary PULSE® platform, have proven to maximize the supply chain, minimize operational costs, and ensure timely and accurate patient dosing. Endpoint is headquartered in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina with offices across the United States, Europe, and Asia.

The Principal Software Engineer, Product Engineering is instrumental in the design and development of new and existing products and ensuring strong quality with adherence to defined development processes.  This position will take the lead in implementing coherent and scalable development processes, designing innovative technical solutions and strategies, training, mentoring, and coaching the engineering team, and fulfilling a technical lead role on projects.  The position requires a highly self-motivated individual who enjoys working in a highly collaborative atmosphere.  This role closely interacts with internal customers such as Product Strategy, IT and Operations. Your goal is to deliver industry-leading software products and do everything necessary to achieve this. To do this, you need to have strong technical knowledge of software development and design principles, well versed and up to date on new technologies and solutions, provide insight and oversight to the engineering team, and deliver high quality software.

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Responsible for software development delivery as per specifications and in accordance with regulatory requirements

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Work on projects from design to launch, including development, code reviews, unit testing, testing, integration, and deployment

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Ensure code quality by overseeing development and adherence to software development processes

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As part of the Product Development engineering team, work closely with Product Strategy, Architecture, and Testing to ensure implementation is aligned with the company’s business strategy and goals

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Establish, document, uphold , and enforce quality processes within the software development team including coding standards, code reviews, unit testing, and other Standard Operating Procedures and Work Instructions

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Coordinate with IT and Operation’s Development teams to ensure smooth product releases and implementations, including CI/CD pipelines and timely knowledge transfer

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Participate in design discussions across different teams

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Participate in information/requirements gathering sessions with business stakeholders

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Troubleshoot and maintain existing systems

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Team leadership in team growth, learning, and efficiency in technical and business-related matters

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Make recommendations to improve process efficiency and effectiveness

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Act as a subject matter expert on the Product Development software products and tools and serve as a primary point of contact internally for software-related questions and issues

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Develop clear and comprehensive technical and/or product recommendations and solutions to support long-term strategies

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Evangelize emerging technologies and the intelligent integration of them into our products and development strategies

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Facilitate architectural discussions to ensure scalable and compliant code and technology

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Simplify and communicate complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences

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Prepare thorough technical documentation to adhere to development processes, company Standard Operating Procedures, Audit requirements, etc.

Education Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent and/or appropriate experience

Experience

• 8+ years of experience with system design and development of software
• Ability to work well in a team environment
• Strong technical experience with .NET technologies
• Strong technical experience with web technologies, including React, other JavaScript libraries, Typescript, and CSS/SASS
• Extensive experience with unit testing
• Experience with test-driven development
• Extensive experience in debugging and profiling applications
• Experience with an enterprise-level ALM platform such as Azure DevOps
• Experienced in Agile/Scrum methodologies
• Solid experience with secure application development (website and web service security)
• Extensive experience in navigating software projects through the SDLC, including analyzing, documenting, and designing software system architectures
• Experience with DevOps
• 3 years of experience in life sciences industry, preferably in the IRT industry

Skills

• Extensive knowledge of Object-Oriented development and design patterns
• Extensive experience with including but not limited to:
• Developing REST web services using C#, ASP.NET
• Microsoft SQL Server, Entity framework and LINQ
• JavaScript development using React.js/jQuery/etc.
• Service bus technology such as RabbitMQ or Azure Service Bus
• Strong knowledge of Cloud Technologies such as Azure or AWS
• Strong attention to detail
• Excellent organizational, time and people management skills
• Strategic thinker, ability to simplify and communicate complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Skills below are a plus:
• Redis
• Azure Power Platform

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