Software Engineer Manager, Castor
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Clinical trials platform
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Clinical trials platform
201-500 employees
Open for applications
+ Employee Stock Option Plan
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To solve the world’s healthcare challenges with research data.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience
- 5 years of software development experience in one or more programming languages (e.g. C++, Java, Typescript, C# and/or PHP/Python)
- 1 year of technical leadership and project delivery experience in a cloud native environment
- Demonstrated experience in managing technical teams, including performance management, engineering growth and some hiring
- An understanding of software engineering & system engineering best practices to achieve scalable, maintainable, high quality, software and services
- Excellent level of English, both verbal and written
What the job involves
- As Software Engineering Manager (Data), you will have the technical expertise to define, scope, refine and deliver projects
- You will use your skills to provide technical leadership for these projects and also to manage a team of Engineers to meet the goals you set
- You will have responsibility to set and manage your team’s goals, contribute to product strategy and align with other teams
- You will understand and optimize overall team performance and help individuals to develop under your leadership
- You will have a passion and responsibility to understand user, customer and participant needs and you will use this understanding to improve and extend Castor’s products with a focus on how this will positively impact their experiences
- Compliance with industry standards is an essential part of Castor’s business, you will have a responsibility to understand,and operate within these standards with the goal of continuously improving the team’s quality and efficiency
- Set and communicate team priorities that support Castor’s broader goals
- Set clear expectations for individuals in the team, based on their role and experience. Meet on a regular basis to discuss performance and provide feedback and coach to aid growth and development
- Collaborate with engineering leaders to hire strong team members and manage their performance to ensure that the team grows and improves
- Provide expert knowledge in software engineering practices, processes and tools to enable your team to deliver, ensuring high standards of quality, excellent communication and timely delivery
- Drive the execution of projects, including overseeing the whole development lifecycle from planning to production delivery
- Working with the Product Team when needed:
- Scope, refine and plan the work with your team
- Define and prioritize the stories, issues and tasks with the team. Breaking down work within the team to manageable trackable items that can be estimated and delivered in a timely manner
- Drive and maintain a technical roadmap within the scope of the team and align with other teams
- Design or guide, then review and approve the technical approaches, risks and appropriateness of solutions for the team
- Involve yourself in definition, design and code where appropriate to solve complex or ambiguous problems
- Review code developed by engineers in the team and provide feedback to ensure best practice
- Define and iterate team practices to ensure quality, accuracy, testability, maintainability and efficiency
- Operate and support the compliance processes within the scope of the team
Our take
Castor’s cloud-based clinical data management platform allows clinical trials to be carried out faster and in a more decentralised and patient-focused manner. Some of the biggest roadblocks to successful clinical trials are the length of time they can take, a lack of diversity in participants, and a simple shortage of trial subjects. Castor’s tech allows researchers to overcome these obstacles by more easily capturing and integrating data.
Castor, along with other med tech startups like Thread and Florence garnered praise during 2020 as a lot of medical research transitioned to virtual. In a clinical trials market that’s worth over $40 billion worldwide and still growing, the fact that Castor counts the WHO in its customer base is encouraging.
Backed by Eight Roads Ventures and F-Prime Capital, Castor is aiming to use its funding round to continue product development, data gathering, and increase its manpower, with a view to expanding operations beyond the US and into Asia.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jul 2021
$45m
SERIES B
Aug 2020
$12m
SERIES A
Total funding: $64.1m
Company benefits
- Unlimited annual leave, plus national holidays per location. Minimum of 25 PTO days per year to be taken.
- Access to Calm App
- Quarterly downtime weeks
- Bi-weekly virtual meditation sessions
- Virtual company events
- Sleeping courses
- A ‘wellbeing boost slack channel
- Access to a company coach
- A 24/7 accessible ‘getting things done’ workshop
- An annual €750 credit allowance in Learnerbly
- An annual €750 (or the currency equivalent) to spend on professional development
- Quarterly alignment cycle promoting open feedback through Leapsome
- Access to Appical which supports an amazing remote onboarding journey
- Ensuring you have the best possible remote working setup
- Work remotely or from a Castor office location near you
- A focus on agile and flexible working
- A Mac or Dell laptop
- Personal IT support and setup on your first day
- Access to professional tools including G-Drive, Zoom, Miro, Slack, Confluence, ProductBoard, Figma, Jira, and Asana
- Internal communication and meeting guidelines to support asynchronous communication
Company values
- Achieve anything with a happy and healthy team
- Maximize research impact
- Push boundaries through direct communication and diversity
- Amaze through user-friendly and rewarding experiences
- ACT RESPONSIBLY and protect the data
Company HQ
Hudson Square, New York, NY
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Leadership
Derk Arts
(CEO)Has over fifteen years of experience in medicine, research and technology.
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